I've always found development war stories interesting. Sometimes they're also informative. I think you probably know the sort of things I mean. Tales of projects that went well, production disasters leading to phone calls in the middle of the night, companies where arms on chairs were status symbols, and so on and on. When told well they present useful lessons in an easily digested form.

One of the best sites I've found for this is Gamasutra. It's a game deveopers site that needs a free registration. The postmortem features can be just fascinating. Generally they use the format of "Introduction", "What went right" and "What went wrong", with right and wrong each being five points. It's interesting to see the same lessons popping up in different projects. Items such as under estimating work, managing content and programming workflow, and the importance of finding or building the right tools, . Lots of these apply to the more mundane sort of programming that I do for a living, and its fun to read about the rest. For example I've never worked on a project where choosing the right voice actor and building a character around their image was one of the things that made the development process successful.