Two Things

1) WTF is the point of having a FAQ if it's filled with questions that aren't frequently asked? I'm looking into programming apps for Danger's Hiptop and their FAQ is full of questions that no right minded developer would ever ask. Maybe they should call it a 'Questions we want you to ask that we know you don't care about the answer to' section.

2) Alan Cox is the man. Check that link up there. The man understands the Unix philosophy for applications (think grep | sort | cut) and why they work. KISS is a fundamental ideology for every other engineering field, yet programmers seem to think that the more features something can have the better it must obviously be. Or maybe it's business people that fail to understand what makes decent software. I'm personally for the idea of plugins and modules. Build the core functionality and add features in a simple, enclosed (and secure) way.