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Free Icon Pack - Foo provides a link to some free icons, fonts, and more.
The dark side - I'm on the dark side. Fo Sho. Also Dariusz seems to post primarily in German, which is awesome, because I'm looking for foreign language bloggers. Anyone know any more?
Why we chose ASP.NET to run our startup - interesting reading.
Are you a leader or a tracker - is it me, or do tech titles get less and less meaningful?
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Introduction to Ruby Video Series
.Net 2.0 Cast Operator VS As Operator - nice tip from Scott.
AT&T Invents Programming Language for Surveillance - See++? Talk about your domain specific language...
Screencast - Driving a Robot from Windows Mobile Device - will it get me beer? Pretty cool.
10 Signs You Aren't Cut Out To Be A Developer - Pretty much, yeah. Questions that get to the root of these things top my interview list. (Stoled from Arjan - great link!)
MonoRail - Beginner FAQ - couple weeks old, but relevant to me now.
Abstraction is the Name of the Game - Hans-Eric nails it. Blindly following "best practices" without conscientous thought leads to worst practices.
PowerShell Cookbook Now Available - I *really* need to get more up to speed on PowerShell
You Can't Change it, But You Can Hide It And Add Something That Looks Like It - "just because it has to look like something doesn't mean it has to be that something"
ASP.Net for Windows CE - OpenNETCF delivered Padarn today.
Getting started with Reflector Addins - Jason is really building himself quite a product expertise on Reflector. Make sure you check out his other stuff, including his way-better-than-this-one links blog.
Regions == Evil - I dunno Bil, this may evaluate to MAYBE. I see the point though. There is an addin called Regionerate that does a fair job of keeping your regions in line with a keystroke, but all things in moderation eh?
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