Mmmmmm….gotta love long holiday weekends.  I did absolutely nothing this weekend except relax, spend time with my family and play WoW.

Today is my wife’s birthday.   We’re officially the same age again (at least for another 5 months).

“Why Didn’t Anyone Tell Me Steve McConnell Has A Blog!?”
I have all of McConnell’s books and I agree that every developer should read Code Complete but I tend to not get all worked up over stuff like this.

I enjoyed Scott Berkun’s “How to stay motivated“. 
“The masters in all fields are foremost great self-manipulators, orchestrating their will to achieve what the rest of us can not. However, since our minds are the only ones we see from the inside out, there can be no true handbook for motivation: only a treasure map of landmarks and a handful of bones to roll.” 

.NET Cheat Sheets.  I can’t recall all the times I’ve had to search for string formatting info in MSDN.  Great to have it all in one place.

“Top 10 .NET Framework Technologies to Learn in 2007“
Hmmm…in order to learn just WCF, WPF and LINQ this year, I’d have lock myself in my office, ignore my family and stop playing WoW.

Patrick Cauldwell wrote “This I believe… the developer edition“.  Excellent stuff!

Web Worker Daily has become part of my daily reading.  These are good examples of what you can find: “Top 5 Web Worker Mistakes” by Mike Gunderloy and “Five Tips for Moving Quickly from Task to Task” by Sabra Aaron.

Seth Godin wrote “Alignment” and one statement jumped right out at me.
“When there’s a gap between someone doing her job and doing the right thing, then management has failed.”

Nuff’ said.

I recently discovered the blog of Derik Whittaker…awesome stuff!  There’s way too much good content for me to single out individual posts, but I’ll start with this one.  My recommendation is to just subscribe to his blog if you aren’t already.