George Ou of ZDNet blogs wrote about µTorrent and how its author Ludvig Strigeus work on it on his spare time. It’s one of most popular BT client right now in Windows even though it’s relatively new. He also discussed the impressive performance of µTorrent compared to other Bit Torrent clients out there. It’s a good read about tight code programming. I must say that it really takes good practice and discipline to code slim yet powerful application. That’s a challenge to every programmer out there; however, it’s not necessarily what the market demands anyway.
I think it’s debatable whether you should value “tight coding”. I just find it disturbing. It’s scary how colleges all over the world produce “computer scientists” who simply knows how to glue together codes but can’t produce their own or even don’t know the theories behind their own codes! Now, read this and this comment. I guess it’s time to think about your progamming habits and practices. 
Links:
µTorrent
ZDNet Blogs: Can great software live in 130 kilobytes?
According to The Register, Google has its own version of Linux distro Ubuntu called internally as “Goobuntu”. Google has confirmed this but denies plans to distribute it in the future.