Here are links that I (Larry O'Brien) have been meaning to post (the "I"s and "me" in the following are the original authors):

http://www.netcrucible.com/blog/PermaLink.aspx?guid=6c883fbb-16d3-467f-a028-110e9078132a 

If you follow the rumor mill, you may have heard of X# or "Xen", the crazy next-generation programming language that was reportedly being cooked up by people on my former team.  I won't say what they all are working on now, but some more of them have started blogs....

http://bitworking.org/news/Cory_Doctorow_s_Eastern_Standard_Tribe

I just finished reading Cory Doctorow's latest book Eastern Standard Tribe. It was a cool book and the next time I hit a bookstore or Amazon.com I will buy a copy. Because Cory released the book under a Creative Commons license people have been transforming it into a variety of formats. The one that caught my eye was "speed-reader" by Trevor Smith. This is a Java applet that flashes the book up on the screen a word at a time. The single user-interface control it has is for varying the speed at which the words are presented....

http://weblogs.asp.net/cnagel/archive/2004/02/15/73297.aspx  |  Comments

Harald Leitenmüller (Microsoft Austria) mentioned that the book Presenting to Win - The Art of Telling Your Story helped him a lot with preparing his morning keynote (Alex Holy and his team: Beat Schwegler, Mario Szpuszta and Harald Leitenmüller) for the .NET Day in Vienna.

I'm just reading chapter 6 of this book, and it is really great. There are many good ideas from Jerry Weissman that help doing great presentations....

 Http://www.cookcomputing.com/blog/archives/000346.html

Seen on one of the Mono lists: version 0.1 of Nemerle - "a statically typed functional language with well founded .NET" - has been released by a team at Wroclaw university....

The Geek Hierarchy

 http://boingboing.net/2004_02_01_archive.html#107611107718531399

Stephen Wolfram has made the complete text of his New Kind of Science (a 1000+-page treatise on the way that virtually everything in the universe can be explained with cellular automata), which he self-published a couple years back with some of the squillions of dollars he's earned on his seminal Mathematica software program, available for free on the Internet. Link (via /.)

 http://devhawk.net/PermaLink.aspx?guid=70beeb67-a27d-4958-90ab-f3aa3f46cfd2  |  Comments

Again, I'm late to the story but I think it's ultra-cool that MS Research released the source code to Allegiance . At 511 MB, it's almost thirty times bigger than Rotor + Gyro, which is a significant code release in itself, though honestly, only about 5% of the Allegiance archive is code, the 95% is in the "Artwork" subdirectory. That still leaves about 25MB of compressed code.

I'd love to see a port to MC++, a la Quake II.NET. Is anyone working on it?

 http://devhawk.net/PermaLink.aspx?guid=15eb3822-519c-458e-9086-2999ce666d44  |  Comments

patterns & practices has published a new App Block: Authorization and Profile.

This block is a reusable code component that builds on the capabilities of the Microsoft .NET Framework to help you perform authorization and access profile information.

You can read it online or download it.

http://devhawk.net/PermaLink.aspx?guid=ef315d5b-f0b5-4e94-b066-243c4c3f695c  |  Comments

My teammate Simon has posted details of his managed SDK for Outlook codenamed Niobe. He's also created a GDN workspace for it. Coolness.

http://weblog.infoworld.com/udell/2004/02/17.html#a918

....This column touches on two third-rail issues: personality and gender....

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Interview with Intel's C++ Compiler Team 

http://www.realworldtech.com/page.cfm?ArticleID=RWT072803234425

After all the CLR posts, here's a real compiler story.

 Key Events in Microsoft History

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=ad951bad-3e3b-4f32-a081-72072a869d17

Timeline of important Microsoft dates and events.

 http://www.russellbeattie.com/notebook/1006221.html  |  Comments

I'm here with my company WaveMarket at DEMO and this morning - after a few days of last minute rush - we launched our suite of Location Based Services, including my baby WaveBlog. Yay! What a push. And whew! Now I can talk about what I'm doing! ....

 Why Don't .NET Developers Grok Scalable Distributed Computing?

http://samgentile.com/blog/archive/2004/02/12/11304.aspx

I have had this essay gnawing in my head for at least three months and have been trying to phrase it, think through it, agonizing over it. ....