References

If you're interested in reading MSDN magazines on screen, there are PDF downloads of MSDN magazine available from Microsoft.

The Pragmatic Programmer is one of the best books I've ever read - a copy of it sits on my bookshelf and it gets reread, cover to cover, every 18 months or so. Every time, I learn something new - and I'm reminded why I love my job.

Shorter than some, longer than many, my 1 hour commute to and from work each day used to be down time. Over the last three or four years, I’ve found that podcasts are a good way to fill the time.

Scott Hanselman has just posted Hanselman's Super Karate Death Car List of .NET and Software Podcasts and suggested that others do the same … here’s what occupies my commute.

This looks pretty useful – Luca Bolognese has implemented (during paternity leave, no less!) a fairly complete library of Financial functions for .NET.

If this had been around a few months ago, a project I’m working on might have taken quite a different approach. Something to bookmark for later.

I've long been of the opinion that it can be immensely fruitful to work towards being a virtuoso of your development environment.

The more effectively you can drive the environment, the faster you're going to get the job done - and the more time you can spend on thinking.

The Keybinding posters for Visual studio are one good place to start.

Spec# is a C# based language from Microsoft Research. It extends the language by adding comprehensive support for Contract Based Programming, with new keywords such as assume, require and expose.