Installing Utilities and SDK for Subsystem for UNIX-based Applications

Supposed to work with Windows 7?

Installing and Using Utilities and SDK for UNIX-based Applications

Learn to install and use the add-on called Utilities and SDK for UNIX-based applications.

FreeBSD adds support for Snow Leopard's Grand Central Dispatch

This is big news.
Now it's the developers turn to take advantage of it.
Apple's Grand Central Dispatch technology, which debuted in Snow Leopard as a mechanism for optimizing parallelism across multiple cores and processors, has now been ported to FreeBSD.

Beginner Developer Learning Center

Microsoft's actually got a lot of useful video's here if you got time to go through them.
Too bad they force you to use Silverlight to watch them though:(

Difference between a computer scientist and a programmer?

Duct Tape Programmers and the Culture of Complexity in Software Projects
I guess a progammer employed by a company or himself actually has to ship a program in a reasonable time period vs a computer scientist like Knuth can spend years figuring something out and perfecting it before showing it to the world.

How Win7's "Boot to VHD" Feature has Changed the Way I Work

Might come in handy. Will have to try it.
Boot to VHD.

Why Johnny can't code

Food for thought.
BASIC used to be on every computer a child touched -- but today there's no easy way for kids to get hooked on programming.
Yeah wasn't it burned into the ROM or something I thought?