General programming blogs
Http://blogs.technet.com/MarkRussinovich/-Mark is a MS Technical Fellow, and the author of the Sysinternals tools, and co-author of Inside Windows. most of his blog entries are good case studies in how to use tools to track down tough problems that you see.
Http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/-Raymond Chen's blog-Raymond is a Win32 guru, and he has lots of intersting Win32 how-not-to-do-it tidbits.
Http://herbsutter.wordpress.com/and http://www.gotw.ca-Herb Sutter is the converor of the C ++ Standards Committee, and has lots of articles on doing concurrency well.
Http://erdani.org/-Andrei Alexandrescu is the author of Modern C ++ Design, which introduced us to Template Metaprogramming.
Http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/scott_meyers/-Scott Meyers wrote the valid tive C ++ books.
Http://www.booch.com/architecture/blog.jsp-Grady Booch is the author of Object Oriented Analysis and Design, and one of the inventors of object oriented design
Http://www.artima.com/weblogs/index.jsp? Blogger = Logging
Http://schneier.com/blog/-Bruce Schnieder is a security and cryptography guru, and wrote Applied Cryptography.
Http://www.addsimplicity.com/adding_simplicity_an_engi/-An interesting blog about SOE and server side issues.
C ++ blogs
Http://www.artima.com/cppsource-This is a source of papers by C ++ Luminaries
Http://www.nwcpp.org/-Did you know we have a local C ++ User's Group that meets monthly here on campus? This is another way to keep up to date.
C # blogs
Http://weblogs.asp.net/Scottgu/-Scott Guthrie's blog is a good way to keep updated with upcoming C #/. Net/Visual Studio features.
Agile programming
Http://www.threeriversinstitute.org/-Kent Beck is the inventor of XP (eXtreme Programming, not windows XP), and also wrote the book on Test Driven Design
Http://martinfowler.com/bliki/-Martin Fowler is the author of "Refactoring"
Http://www.artima.com/weblogs/index.jsp? Blogger = mfeathers-Michael Feathers is the author of "Working extends tively with Legacy Code", a book about how to unit test the untestable.
Http://seattlexp.org/cgi-bin/wiki.cgi-Seattle has a XP special interest group that meets occasionally
Http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/extremeprogramming-seattle/-Seattle has a XP special interest group that meets occasionally
Http://www.xpprogramming.com/-XP site
Other helpful programming links (not blogs)
Http://www.netobjectives.com /-
Http://academic.research.microsoft.com/-This is a site for finding research papers.
Http://www.ddj.com/-Dr Dobbs 'journal still prints relevant articles. Some of their articles are only available online.
Http://www.codeguru.com/Cpp/W-P/system/devicedriverdevelopment/article.php/c8035/-Fun article on how kernel mode transitions work
Http://www.reger24.de/processes.php-a list of known processes that are part of the default install of the OS, so you can figure out what they do.
Http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/default.aspx-SysInternals freeware apps (new home)
Interesting, but not directly programming related
Http://sanderssays.typepad.com/sanders_says/-This is about the people side of software. Tim used to work for Yahoo, and wrote "Love is the Killer App", and "The Likeability Factor ".