Randy Pausch: Really achieving your childhood dreams | Video on TED.com

Randy Pausch shares his story. Amazing stuff. I can only imagine what it would have been like to work (or play) with this man.

Oracle DBMS_CHANGE_NOTIFICATION

An interesting way of subscribing to events in an Oracle db. Could be used as an alternative to triggers where the work to be carried out is not possible from a trigger or needs to be done async to the trigger.

QuickSharp

MonoDevelop

SharpDevelop IDE for C#

A few opensource C# IDEs.