Architecture

• Presentations - Null References The Billion Dollar Mistake
• Shawn Wildermuth - RIA Services, Silverlight and MVVM
• N-Tier Application Patterns - Entity Framework
• Introducing SpecMaker “Rspec style” BDD in C#
• Software projects are like sailing voyages
• Computer Engineer vs. Computer Scientist

Developer

• Don’t shave the yak, ask ‘Why are we doing this’ at Mark Needham
• Bear Shaving at Mark Needham
• Speeding up Visual Studio 2008
• Be a Good Jedi Build Your Own Blog
• All Programming is Web Programming - Atwood's Law: any application that can be written in JavaScript, will eventually be written in JavaScript.

ASP.NET MVC/Web

• MVC Membership Starter Kit Released
• expression-resources - Expression Studio Resources
• Announcing OpenSearch on ASP.NET made super easy with the OpenSearch Toolkit

Code

• Implementing some useful Enumerable Extension methods from Ruby
• Fields in C# - code standards
• How-To Using the N stack, part 1 « BASICly everything - NHibernate, ASP.NET MVC, NINJECT, NUnit, jQuery
• Plug-In Hybrids ASP.NET WebForms and ASP.MVC and ASP.NET Dynamic Data Side By Side – the hanselman mashes all the m$ web tech up together - nice

Book

“Learned Optimism” by Martin Seligman - James Crisp

Singularity Watch

• Uber-dexterous robot hands GENOMICON
• Worldchanging Bright Green The Solar Forest Charging Station And Shady Spot For Electric Cars
• Four Singularity Movies - The World Wants the Future
• Scientists Worry Machines May Outsmart Man - "Big changes are coming.  Disruption is coming." – ooooh scary ;-) Basically – don’t get a career on a factory line.
• ASIMO robot impresses by navigating changing terrain
• Time for Humanity to 'Grow Up' If Global Problems Are to Be Overcome
• As Classrooms Go Digital, Textbooks May Become History
• IBM gets $16 million to bolster its brain-on-a-chip technology
• Solar Industry No Breakthroughs Needed
• Potential Energy Weeding Out Solar Companies
• First Solar Lowering the Cost of Solar Electricity Home

Other

• Spokenlounge - groovy music tracks
• http://9elements.com/io/projects/html5/canvas/ - html5
  http://vimeo.com/5606758 - worlds second largest fishtank ... v.cool
• We Are All Software Companies Now
• Scott Hanselman's Computer Zen - Top 10 Tips Working Developers Should Know about Windows 7
• Brain exercise paper plane
• The Hive - business networking for entrepreneurs in Melbourne + Brisbane
• GraysOnline Auctions Blog