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Taking a time out from blogging.
I'm doing a site upgrade to ASP.NET MVC.

In the meantime, follow me over on Twitter.
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Hidden Features of C#
Post your extension goodies for C#
Common programming mistakes for .NET developers to avoid?
Most wanted feature for C# 4.0
What's the hardest or most misunderstood aspect of LINQ?
Most Useful Attributes in C#
Open source C# projects that have very high code quality to learn from
What's the strangest corner case you’ve seen in C# or .NET?
Best Free Controls for .NET
Since .NET has a garbage collector why do we need finalizers/destructors/dispose-pattern?
C#: Interfaces - Implicit and Explicit implementation
What is the correct way to create a single instance application?
What's a good way to overwrite DateTime.Now during testing?
Should I use Mono on a real project?
C# Coding standard / Best practices
.NET WTF?s
C# method can be made static, but should it?
Invert "if" statement to reduce nesting
What is the worst C#/.NET gotcha?
Structure versus Class in C#
Should C# include multiple inheritance?
Which ORM for .net would you recommend?
How to mix colors "naturally" with C#?
Where can I learn about the various types of .NET lists?
Good C# Interview Questions for a Senior Dev Position
Differences in Generics (Java/C#)
C#: What are attributes?
Ordinals in C#
What do you think of the new C# 4.0 'dynamic' keyword?
List<BusinessObject> or BusinessObjectCollection?
How do you do a deep copy an object in .Net (C# specifically)?
What is Castle Windsor, and why should I care?
How do I connect to a database and loop over a recordset in C#?
C# - List<T> or IList<T>
Are there good reasons not to use an ORM?
How can I manage the onslaught of null checks?
Preventive vs Reactive C# programming
.NET Unit Testing packages?
What do two question marks together mean in C#?

Bonus:
The 31 Days of ReSharper

Fortune has released their annual 100 best companies to work for data.

Jeff Atwood and Joel Spolsky discussed application "heartbeats" on recent episode of the StackOverflow podcast. This is something that I have struggled with in the past. They mentioned some nice and simple ideas.

The Podcast - StackOverflow 15 (mp3)
A Jeff Atwood Post - Easy Background Tasks in ASP.NET

Bonus Random Links:
The Five Essential Phone-Screen Questions
Top 100 Blogs for Developers (Q4 2008)

So what was the first television show to use the story arc model?
To my knowledge the first show I can remember to do this was Wiseguy.
Anyone know of a show to do this before 1987?

I've been getting into deep into some .NET compiler details lately.
The post below links to some good details about Garbage Collection and the IDisposable interface.
Jan Schreuder - Dispose and the Garbage collector

Wikipedia - Garbage Collection (computer science)

I couldn't agree with this blog post more:
Seinfeld killed the "laugh track"

So if your a programmer who hasn't seen the site StackOverflow.com yet, you're missing out.

This was a good post I found there:
Programmer Jokes - what's your best one?

The second movie trailer for Star Trek is finally here:
Star Trek Trailers

In other remake news - I see there is a Friday the 13th remake coming soon.

I'm glad someone figured out how to do this. I used to love running the Quick Launch Bar along the right side of my screen in Windows XP. If you are running a Vista machine then you might know that Microsoft Vista prevents you from just dragging the Quick Launch off the Taskbar. As Microsoft starts making the "Start Bar" more and more useless, its nice to have a bar of 10 to 15 shortcuts at your finger tips without going to the Start Button. By putting the Quick Launch on the right-hand side of your screen, you are keeping it closer to other window controls (min, max, close) which will reduce your mouse movements.

Vista: Move Quick Launch to Side of Screen tutorial video

Update: I've gotten word that this hack does not work in Windows 7. In addition Windows 7 removes the option to go back to the classic start menu. lame.

Android Demo with Sergey Brin and Steve Horowitz
Android - first time setup A first hand look at building an Android application (video)
Android Developer Tips - Easy To Write Modular Code

Architecture:
Androidology - Part 1 of 3 - Architecture Overview
Androidology - Part 2 of 3 - Application Lifecycle
Androidology - Part 3 of 3 - APIs

I stumbled upon this guy's flickr profile via reddit:
Eric Rolph's photostream
About 90% of them are perfect for desktop wallpaper.

This is such a cool concept. Current should do more "partnership" projects in the future.

Digg Dialogg: Al Gore

The following from a post I found on the web this morning (anonymous):

Dear America:
  You did good, kid.
Love, Britain.

Hours ago we got our first preview of the "holodeck" technology that will be used by MSNBC on Election Night.
View the video here.