Architectural mood swings

When doing my job or just browsing the web in search for some brain food for the tech oriented geek, I sometimes come across some links I find interesting and then bookmark for later review. On some blogs (Scott Guthries' blog for example) it is common to post some links once a month. I mostly find these blog posts interesting so I decided to do the same for you readers. Maybe some links interest you too.

Teched 2007 Linq to SQL Presentation
Linq, part of the .NET Framework 3.5 and the latest language enhancements to C# and VB.NET, is a way of dealing with structured data. One implementation is Linq to SQL, which is generally an O/R-mapper for use with Linq. This presentation provide you with the basics.

Google Code University
This is a collection of video's, sessions, presentations and tutorials written by or for Google. Examples are C++ threading, Python 3000 by Guido Van Rossum, Java programming, web technologies like AJAX, etc... Very interesting.

Django on IronPython
Python is a interpreted programming language. IronPython is the .NET implemation. Django is a web application framework for Python. No Django runs on IronPython, which means you get the benifits of Python, .NET and Django in one package. Nice read, didn't try it yet though.

Singularity. An experimental operating system in C#
Microsoft has a research-project which aims on creating an operating system using the C# programming language. For this, they used custom compilers and a custom runtime to compile C# code directly to x86. Very interesting. Includes some documents. If you are into OS-programming, it is a must-read.

How to recognize a good programmer
Great read if you are a programmer yourself. A must read if you are about to hire programmers. Some points I might argue with, but still it covers most of the aspects of a good programmer.

BONUS: Direct Note Access - Splitting audio compositions in single notes
Not directly tech, but definitely tech-related. If you are into audio-programming, this thing is like water burning or pigs flying. I'm very interested in how this holds in some of my own recording-cases, but still, it looks very cool.