Links for 3-Aug

Concurrency

• Multithreading with asynchronous delegates.
• Software Transactional Memory in .net 4.0 beta 1 experimental.
• On effects and ubiquitous parallelism.

Closing your laptop in meetings.

Monads and the many language route to more functional programming.

Web

• CSS text rotation.
• Misunderstanding markup -- the XHTML future.

Just isolate it already -- for cleaner code.

Unit testing MSBuild extensions.

IronRuby 0.9 release.