Blogs

Coding Horror
This is Jeff Atwood's programmers blog. I've happened upon it lots of times over the years, whilst hunting down programming issues. I now subscribe to it - standard. It is quite simply the best written and most interesting blog on the interweb!

Rick Strahl's Web Log
Rick's articles are mostly web development based but whatever he's discussing is worth knowing.

Haacked
This is the blog of Phil Haack who works for Microsoft. It explains the real nitty gritty of some coding technologies. And provides a great insight into the Microsoft giant.

Tools

Instant SQL Formatter
This is a great site which beautifies your SQL code. If you've ever had to debug some dynamically generated SQL which is treated as a single string then you'll know what a ball ache it is. Don't waste time re-formatting it just lamp it into the 'Instant SQL Formatter' and click 'Format SQL'. Job's a good un.

Derek Slager's REGEX Tester
I think this is the best online Regex tester. And it gives you the C# string literal. Takes the edge of Regex development.

Personal

The OU
The Open University is an amazing institute. I'm in year three of six of my Computing degree. I whole heartedly recommend it. Good value. Good materials. Good times.

World of Spectrum
The Spectrum's place in my heart cannot be overestimated. This site does it more than justice.

BOINC
BOINC is a great piece of software which allows distributed computing. You just download the BOINC client and then attach it to as many BOINC projects as you like. Such projects include: AQUA@Home, Einstein@Home, Cosmology@Home. The BOINC client then downloads tasks for each of your projects and, whilst your CPU is idle, BOINC uses your dorment CPU to carry out calculations for the projects. They then get uploaded to the project sites and you get a warm feeling in your bottom for helping science.

Here's my BOINC stats: