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  1. The Evils of Casting (about Microsoft's ATL out-of-band Security Patch) - http://bit.ly/wjIN4
  2. New at Cprogramming.com: The Secret to Learning Anything - http://bit.ly/3wqEt0
  3. Free Visual Studio 2008 for students, from Microsoft DreamSpark: http://bit.ly/1v9hw9
  4. Reading a great article on how to generate minidumps on Windows, much more useful than the MSDN doc: http://bit.ly/eHZdK
  5. New at Cprogramming.com: Temperature Converter Practice Problem http://bit.ly/K8TE9 (credit @CallToPower)
  6. Updated Setting up Code::Blocks with MINGW to cover the latest Code::Blocks UI, worth a look if you need a compiler: http://bit.ly/vQBdC
  7. worked on speeding up the site a bit, enabled gzip compression as a low hanging fruit. Next up: compressing images.
  8. New at Cprogramming.com: Programming Practice Problem - Computing File Size: http://bit.ly/oSE4D (credit to @CallToPower)
  9. Reading: "Out of Memory does not Refer to Physical Memory" (a very nice explanation of virtual memory): http://bit.ly/RPtl7
  10. New at Cprogramming.com: 5 Ways you can Learn Programming Faster http://bit.ly/EfOdQ
  11. The 5 Most Common Problems New Programmers Face--And How You Can Solve Them http://bit.ly/fSnZk
  12. How to exclude certain PDB files from being loaded by the debugger--something I've always wanted to be able to do: http://is.gd/KgOQ
  13. @CallToPower Number identification actually does sound like AI, if you're doing it from scratch--neural nets and support vector machines
  14. @calltopower Heard from my robotics friend; he pointed out much of basic robotics programming isn't very AI-oriented, so no dice
  15. 5 Awesome (and time saving) Features of the Visual Studio Debugger: http://bit.ly/3yjmTz
  16. Why did MIT switch from Scheme to Python: http://bit.ly/Y2kvz
  17. @CallToPower I haven't heard of Brainstormers, but I do know of RoboCup--my friend actually participated. Still haven't heard back though.
  18. @calltoPower Robotics, cool! I know a few folks who've done that--let me check with them
  19. @fivefiftyone Glad you like the forums--don't worry, no-one will make you answer if you don't raise your hand ;)
  20. @CallToPower Any particular area of AI you're interested in? I think Russell and Norvig is a great start