Resource Links #1

Feeds to follow

•  The Old New Thing : Raymond Chen 's regular blog about all Win32 API and internal, not-so-common, wisdom about windows operating system.
• Coding Horror : Jeff Atwood's always loveable regular rants about technology and computing - for the daily users and developers. 
• Faboulous Adventures in coding : Eric Lippert's senior advice and wisdom on C# and other Microsoft technologies.
• Joel on Software : Joel spolsky's discussions about software design and best practices. 
• Mark's Blog : The WinInternals and now SysInternals guy. The technical fellow in the platform and services devision at Microsoft. Its a low volume, high wisdom blog. He solves one case at a time, cases that annoy us all the often. Also, a regular insight into Windows internals. Do you use SysInternal tools ? You should. For example ProcessExplorer , TcpView , Procmon. They definitely give you more control over Windows system so you can diagnose problems easily. Download the complete suite here . 

Tweeple to follow

• @zakimirza : Thats me :). Follow me to get updates on myinconsistent self, rambling, links and blogposts, occassional cursing on speghatti codes and what not. 
• @shanselman : Programmer, author, teacher, speaker, web guy, podcaster, starving stand-up comic, diabetic, Microsoft shill. Social Media! Why not?
  Scott Hanselman is a very renowned blogger, tech analyst and computing enthusiast. Upto date tweets on the latest.
• @stocktwits : Real-time stock conversations.
• @timorielly : Founder and CEO, O'Reilly Media. Watching the alpha geeks, sharing their stories, helping the future unfold.
• @google : News and updates from Google

Programming Links & Resources

• Checkout Roy Oshirove's post about other blogs that emit daily news about .NET etc here A very useful reference indeed!
• StackOverflow is a rapidly growing question/answers site developed by Jeff Atwood and Joel Spolsky. Has answers to questions spanning from best practices to code problems. 
• Tim Orielly talks about Govt. 2.0, its all about the platform. Read it here.
• CodeBetter is a colgremate of blogs to promote better coding practices.
• Read about latest in .NET's base class library (BCL 4.0) .
• A success story using NDepend to make better managed code of a large application. Its all about the design.I wil blog about NDepend and its usage pretty soon.
• 7Zip is an opensource windows utility for manipulating a large variety of Archives. 
• Ever needed a good CLR profiler? Try dotTraceand Intel prallel studio to find profile your application for performance, memory leaks, deadlocks and much more. Both of these integrate well with Visual studio.
• Visual Studio 2010 is just around the corner. The new UI is designed in WPF. Yes really. Read VS's architect's take on this here
• Check out Scott Hanselman 's 2009's top utilities here.