The title says it all. DevTopics has a list of the twenty most famous software disasters.

InfoQ has Chet Haase’s presentation from QCon posted on their website. Chet (of the Filthy Rich Clients fame) talks about Update N (previously called the consumer JRE… basically an update to Java 6), JavaFx, and speculates on Java 7. He also spends a bit of time going over improvements for desktop applications in Java 6.

Pat Fitzsimmons posts Nine JavaScript Gotchas in his blog today. It seems like I hit most of these every day at work. Good list of things to be on the lookout for when writing JavaScript.