Images That Strike Fear In A Developer's Heart - K. Scott Allen
Good luck, Scott, you'll need it! It's almost gave *me* instant headache

Adding Simplicity - An Engineering Mantra: In Support of Non-Stop Software
(After burnin/stress testing) ' Your application should be delivering the same performance with the same memory footprint after 5 days as it did on the first day. Anything else, consider it a high priority bug and fix it.'

Implementing infinite undo/redo - Matt Gertz, The VB Team
In most applications undo/redo is horribly broken, in that the stack is lost as soon as you make changes when going up or down the stack. Therefore even giving attention to something like this shows you care about what you're doing

Catching up with Miguel de Icaza - .NET Rocks!
Don't know what happened to the dotnetrocks.com domain, my DNS server can't even cough up an IP address... well, linked from MSDN in that case

Why I use LinkedIn.com - Jim Glass
I'm hesitant towards the usefulness of LinkedIn. I'm there too (hint hint) but still haven't found it really useful. I mean, it's nice, but there's more of these sites, so not *all* my friends are here. Jim is quite positive however: get in touch with old friends... mmm, OK, but my getting in touch with someone via LinkedIn some time ago broke on the fact I didn't know the email address he had given to LinkedIn, and I really needed it to send him an invitation

Software Transactional Memory - Making multithreading easier - Ralf's Sudelbücher
' Multithreading with access shared in-memory resources today is much too difficult for the masses really exploit it '

Thread interrupts are (almost) as evil as thread aborts - Joe Duffy
...even more on threading, you lucky one!

Difference between "throw" and "throw ex" in .NET
No explanation necessary. The only gripe I have is that I don't see what age has to do with it: some people never learn to use exception handling well