Blog Stats are Confusing - GETs, Views, User-Agents, Readers, Eyeballs - Scott Hanselman
Scott likes discussion more that web stats. Probably a healthy attitude
' If I get a lot of comments on a post I feel good. I like to get discussions going and bounce ideas back and forth '

Compiler Complaint - xkcd
Luckily for us managed developers we don't (normally) need to mess with pointers. But there is other things that bite us, of course

Bad Programmers Are Not Good Programmers Who Are Slow - Larry O'Brien
Larry suggests to reaching for the top but looking at the bottom. I always find it is difficult to pinpoint the bottom that he talks about. Often it is more complicated than "just" removing the weak people from the team (team and business dynamics, you know, that can temporarily even prevent good developers from reaching their potential)' They are actively counter-productive to the team '

Object Properties, make them public ONLY when needed - Derik Whittaker
Small piece of advice which can help you a lot. Or not, read the interesting comment thread that is evolving out of this seemingly small thingie

Why I Love F#: The Interactive Environment - Dustin Campbell
(...) a brand new series of short articles about F#. The plan is to describe features that, for me, make F# a compelling and enjoyable .NET language '
Still can't get myself to dive into F#, maybe I should

8 Things You Can Do to Get Work through Linkedin - FreelanceSwitch
via Alvin Ashcraft

Creating an immutable value object in C# - Part V - Using a library - Luca Bolognese

The Zen of Zero Mail - J.D. Meier
Me always tries to keep the Inbox empty except for some pressing things that need attention NOW. Then it is ruthlessly sent to archive folders for potential later reference, the rest gets deleted just as ruthlessly. Never had a problem with that approach.

TDD Is Also An Organizational Process - Phil Haack
' TDD creates a very integrated and cooperative relationship between developers and QA staff. It puts the two on the same team, rather than simply focusing on the adversarial relationship '