Coursera: Algorithms Design And Analysis

If you are a programmer, you should refresh your data structure theory once a year (or twice). Coursera has a few free courses. I took a couple:

Algorithms: Design and Analysis, Part 1
by: Tim Roughgarden Stanford University

Algorithms, Part I
by Robert Sedgewick and Kevin Wayne Princeton University

As you progress, the theory gets overwhelming, but its worth the pain. Just do it!

Disclaimer: I didn't complete either one of the courses. But I loved them!

Java vs C# - Anders Hejlsberg interview (10 year old, but still relevant)

I keep re-reading this interview once in a while. It boils down the essence of how Anders designed C# to avoid the problems with Java. Although this was written in 2003, it is still very relevant. 

A Conversation with Anders Hejlsberg

If you have not read this before, please read all of them or at least these two:

Part II: The Trouble with Checked Exceptions

Part VII: Generics in C#, Java, and C++

Performance Optimization and High throughput computing

If you are interested in high throughput computing, checkout these infoq sessions. All these guys are Gurus in high frequency trading. Lots of cool and practical stuff; some of it against conventional wisdom.

Martin Thompson

Todd Montgomery

Pieter Hintjens

Wisdom of Earth

The amount of wisdom out there in the world is amazing. There are 7 billion people on Earth today. I am sure each one of us must have a little wisdom to give others. Add all the people who have passed through, so there is endless wisdom out there. Here is some I came across in the last two days: 

How being hard-headed (or as they say, knuckle headed) can make you irrelevant:
The North going Zax and South going Zax

Sun Tzu's wisdom (one of them):
"For to win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill"