Development

• a free service oriented architecture diagram.
• Some simple SQL rules to live by
• Agile Bookshelf: Ten must read books
• Keep your data in the tables!
• Best programmer quotes
• Easing Configuration
• Java Image Servlet example

Web

• Aide RSS: RSS with artificial intelligence
• 10 Things you may not know about the Web Developer Toolbar
• Photoshop: How to do a mosaic effect
• Ten articles all bloggers should read at least once
• The best 80 Photoshop text effects on the web

Leisure

• Top ten under $200 hotels in Europe

Self improvement

• Tact Filters
• Good example of actions to put in a CV
• Why should I hire you? and other favorite interview questions

Food

• 101 Summer Express Meals in 10 minutes or less
• 101 Supper Express Vegan Meals in 10 minutes or less.

Here’s Why: A sociologist offers an anatomy of explanations.

Health Problems and the Geek Lifestyle: Things to look out for.

Synthesizer Medley from the 1985 Grammy awards, featuring no less than Thomas Dolby, Herbie Hancock, Stevie Wonder and Howard Jones. All of the 80s synth music summed up in one cheesy medley and narated by Stephen Hawking.

Incredible Machine 1 and Incredible Machine 2: Tons of Japanese Rube Goldberg machines with a catchy theme.

Multiple meats? Check! Maple Syrup? Check! Breakfast beer? Check!

Work related:

• 10 Rules to Manage your Boss – Jacques Horovitz
  Useful advice for making the working relationship with your boss more productive for both of you.
• Best Practices for Risk Free Deployment
  Focuses more on the ‘What’ instead of the ‘How’, but interesting none the less.
• What Programmers Do – Eugene Lazutkin
  A rant that reveals a couple of best practices when dealing with complex systems.
• High Level Best Practices in Software Configuration Management – Laura Wingerd & Christopher Seiwald
  From the Perforce site, but not specific to any particular software. A good read since our SCM has languished over the past year.

Fun stuff:

• Popurls.com
  An aggregation of feeds from popular sites such as Digg, Del.icio.us and furl, amongst others.
• Thai Lao Food Blog
  A great food blog that is just starting. Manivan Larprom offers authentic Thai/Lao recipes passed on from her parents and includes helpful videos.
• A Collection of Letters Selected and Annotated
  Guy Petzall has spent a good chunk of his life writing letters asking why we don’t harvest milk form pigs, what the qualifications for the judge on $100,000 Pyramid are and what the heck Grimace is. These are those letters.