A Friend of mine (well known in Russian Lisp/Emacs community) had created a blog in English, mostly for articles about Common Lisp & Emacs, so if you interested, you can subscribe to it...

Functional Programming & Microsoft

Small presentation about "Why MS trying to adopt functional programming in their programming languages...

books

Several days ago I finished reading of Code Complete, 2nd edition - I heard about this book several times, but hadn't time to read before.
From my point of view, this is very useful book - there are many hints about software development, especially for the junior developers. For me, many hints are obvious, but I remember, that I spent much time to figure them out myself.
There are also much information about improving of software development process, including links to books about software architecture, organization of software development process, testing, and so on. And there are also lot statistical information about usage of concrete development & testing methods...