"Left 4k Dead was made by Markus Persson, for the 2009 Java 4k Competition. The entire game is less than 4kb." Impressive, and even a bit fun.

"You want to know what I think? I'll tell you what I think. Here's what I think: Java Java Java is is is too too too damn damn damn verbose verbose verbose. That's what I think. And I'm sticking to it. So there."

Strategy game that requires you to work within the boundaries of limited - but potentially powerful - AI, and act as a guiding "real intelligence" for your ships.

"Dweller is a simple roguelike targeted for Java enabled mobile phones" lovely - straightforward, classic ASCII Rogue on your j2me mobile. Two thumbs up!

"I suspect designing for the Web instead of around it is at least as important as language choice."

Freemind is awesome.

Gorgeous Java-based (not Flash) visualisation of US zipcodes. Now, so much more makes sense.

Pointers tripped me up when I was 13 and trying to learn C. Flummoxed, I tell you - and put off programming for a while. Now, though, I appreciate Joel's point (even if I'm a lousy coder and not worthy of the title "programmer"). I think it's the fact I k