One more thing you can do to an application: strangle it.

The other day I was walking through a forest when I caught sight of a squirrel gathering nuts and depositing them in its cubby-hole at the base of a large tree. This got me thinking; this could be a whole new way of looking at application development/maintenance: you gather small bits of reusable code (functions, classes, algorithms, whatever) and store them in a repository for later use. I call it the cubby-hole pattern.

Reminds me of the architecture astronauts that Joel was referring to.

I am not linking to the URL that led to this rant lest I offend some Very Important Persons. I leave it as an exercise to the gentle reader to figure it out.