Appreciation of LIFE comes with family and kids. Without that WORK is LIFE.

Quartz.NET is really good and very flexible. There is also Castle.Components.Scheduler[^] I have not use any for a real project.

SICP is a real eye oppener ! Also there are video lectures[^]. - Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs [^] - Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code[^]

Subversion, TortoiseSVN, Paint.NET, NHibernate

There are some great tutorials on the following links. [http://abi.exdream.com/ http://msdn.microsoft.com/coding4fun/gamedevelopment/rocketcmd/default.aspx](http://abi.exdream.com/
http://msdn.microsoft.com/coding4fun/gamedevelopment/rocketcmd/default.aspx)[[^](http://abi.exdream.com/
http://msdn.microsoft.com/coding4fun/gamedevelopment/rocketcmd/default.aspx "New Window")] Arena Wars is commercial game written in .NET. http://arenawars.krawall.de/com/[^]

Beta 1 and 2 had some issues with some applications that use IE (Visual Studio, MSDN) but Beta 3 is working OK for me. I am still using FF because of the plug-ins but IE is suppose to have them too.

Every body is talking about TDD but it seems that TOAD is valid only Java and .NET . What about GUI programing ? What about multithreading? What about C++ ? Can the TDD be used in these situations also ?

PSPad http://www.pspad.com/en/[^] UltraEdit alternative.