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- WPF 4 Unleashed - An excerpt from Chapter 1: Why WPF, and What About Silverlight?
Magazine/Issue: Online CoDe Magazine, Book Excerpts Release Date: Monday, November 26, 2012
Quick ID: 1211063
WPF 4 Unleashed: By Adam Nathan, Sample Chapter is provided courtesy of Sams Publishing. Published Jun 4, 2010 by Sams. Part of the Unleashed series, Copyright 2011 ISBN-10: 0-672-33119-5 To purchase this book go to http://www.informit.com/store/wpf-4-unleashed-9780672331190?w_ptgrevartcl=Why%20WPF%2c%20and%20What%20About%20Silverlight%3f_1608130
- Managed Coder: When Responsibility?
Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2011 Jan/Feb Release Date: Tuesday, December 28, 2010
Quick ID: 112141
- We Are Customer Service!
Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2011 Jan/Feb Release Date: Tuesday, December 28, 2010
Quick ID: 112011
Rod Paddock editorial Jan/Feb 2011
- Post Mortem: Computerized Survey and Intervention Project
Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2011 Jan/Feb Release Date: Tuesday, December 28, 2010
Quick ID: 112051
- Post Mortem: Desaware’s Licensing System 1.x
Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2010 Nov/Dec Release Date: Friday, October 22, 2010
Quick ID: 1011051
Nov/Dec 2010 Post Mortem Article by Dan Appleman
- So You Want to Be a Consultant?
Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2010 Jul/Aug Release Date: Thursday, June 24, 2010
Quick ID: 1008011
- Managed Coder: On Certainty
Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2010 Jan/Feb Release Date: Friday, December 11, 2009
Quick ID: 1001121
Writing software is hard, particularly when the schedules keep programmers “nose to the grindstone”; every so often, it’s important to take a breather and look around the world and discover what we can find-ironically, what we find can often help us write software better.Psychology seems no less strange a partner to the software craftsman than philosophy, but understanding how we engage in that practice called “thought” and “feeling” improves interpersonal skills, like how to deal with annoying co-workers like yourself.
- Getting Back to Basics
Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2009 Sep/Oct Release Date: Sunday, August 16, 2009
Quick ID: 0909021
Our industry is constantly changing. So much so, that it is difficult to keep up sometimes.
- Managed Coder: Of Software and Philosophy
Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2009 Sep/Oct Release Date: Sunday, August 16, 2009
Quick ID: 0909121
Writing software is hard, particularly when the schedules keep programmers “nose to the grindstone.” Every so often, it’s important to take a breather and look around the world and discover what we can find-what we find can often help us write software better.Philosophy seems a strange partner to the software craftsman, but ironically a brief dip in the waters of abstract thought will help hone skills later useful to the craft of code, models, and workable software.
- ThoughtWorking: Of Killer Waves and Sea Changes
Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2009 Jul/Aug Release Date: Friday, June 26, 2009
Quick ID: 0907151
Writing software is hard, particularly when the tools you use force you to think at too low a level; it’s time to start thinking about changing the way you write code… by thinking about the industry around us and how that affects your environment.Every so often an event comes along in the industry that represents a potential “sea change” to how the industry operates. Sometimes these are technical changes, either by releasing a new technology or an important ground-breaking change to an existing one. Sometimes they’re economic, driven by market forces outside of our direct control. And sometimes, they’re financial, such as when two industry giants come together.
- Open Source Software
Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2009 May/Jun Release Date: Monday, April 27, 2009
Quick ID: 0906011
Rod Paddock's May/June 2009 Editorial article.
- Keep Software Simple
Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2009 May/Jun Release Date: Monday, April 27, 2009
Quick ID: 0906021
A lot of programmers tend to over engineer their software solutions.In the course of my consulting, I have reviewed many applications from many companies. In many cases I find a lot of areas where the software was just too complex. The reasons for this are varied, but seem to be centered around a few main areas: inappropriate use of design patterns, the “not invented here” syndrome, and building a Cadillac when a Chevy would do the job. You can solve these issues in many ways. All it takes is a little bit of re-thinking on how you build software. This article offers guidance on some things you can do to simplify your software development process
- ThoughtWorking: Why The Next Five Years Will Be About Languages
Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2009 Mar/Apr Release Date: Friday, February 27, 2009
Quick ID: 0903131
Writing software is hard, particularly when the tools you use force you to think at too low a level; it’s time to start thinking about changing the way you write code… by making it easier to write code.Back in the days of our fathers, programming meant focusing on learning one language, one platform, and one environment, and mastering it over a span of years. Those years are long behind us, along with half-decade project development times and bell-bottomed pants. It’s time to take a hard look at the “state of the union”, per se, and see how you can think about how to work better, rather than just putting in more time.
- Have It Your Way, Revisited
Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2009 Jan/Feb Release Date: Friday, December 19, 2008
Quick ID: 0902111
- Roundtables vs. Lunch Counters
Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2009 Jan/Feb Release Date: Friday, December 19, 2008
Quick ID: 0902011
Rod Paddocks Jan/Feb 09 Editorial
- MVP Corner: Challenging IT Promotion
Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2009 Jan/Feb Release Date: Friday, December 19, 2008
Quick ID: 0902021
Jan/Feb 09 MVP Corner by Chris Williams
- Heard on .NET Rocks! Future of Web Development Panel
Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2009 Jan/Feb Release Date: Friday, December 19, 2008
Quick ID: 0902091
- A Letter from the Director of Accessibility at Microsoft
Magazine/Issue: CoDe Focus Magazine, 2008 - Vol. 5 - Issue 4 - Windows Accessibility Focus Release Date: Tuesday, October 28, 2008
Quick ID: 0810012
Accessible technology eliminates barriers for people with disabilities and it enables individuals to take full advantage of their capabilities."-Bill Gates, Chairman, Microsoft CorporationAccessible technology eliminates barriers for people with disabilities and it enables individuals to take full advantage of their capabilities."-Bill Gates, Chairman, Microsoft Corporation
- Have It Your Way
Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2008 Nov/Dec Release Date: Friday, October 24, 2008
Quick ID: 0811101
- Languages Re-Unleashed
Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2008 Sep/Oct Release Date: Friday, August 22, 2008
Quick ID: 0809011
Sept/Oct 08 Editorial by Rod Paddock
- MVP Corner: We Are the Masters of the Twitterverse
Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2008 Sep/Oct Release Date: Friday, August 22, 2008
Quick ID: 0809021
How did we ever survive without social networks? I asked myself that today and couldn’t come up with an answer I liked. If I need to find contact information for that DBA I worked with three jobs ago, it’s off to LinkedIn or Plaxo. When I’m wondering about that guy from high school who was going to be a world famous rock star, Facebook is only a couple of clicks away. Out of town for a conference? No worries, I just check Twitter to see where my friends are.
- Heard on .NET Rocks! Ted Faison on Event-driven Design
Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2008 Sep/Oct Release Date: Friday, August 22, 2008
Quick ID: 0809111
In .NET Rocks! episode 355, Richard and I talked to Ted Faison about event-based and event-driven programming. There’s more to it than you think. Ted Faison has more than 30 years of experience in the software industry and has been involved with object-oriented-programming and component-based development since the inception of those technologies. He is currently working on .Net projects for the Motorcycle Industry Council and Amtrak. Ted is the author of the books Event-Based Programming: Taking Events to the Limit, Component-Based Development with Visual C#, and a few others.
- From the CODE Magazine Mailbag
Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2008 Sep/Oct Release Date: Friday, August 22, 2008
Quick ID: 0809131
Ken Getz .Finalize() column for September/October 2008
- Individuagility
Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2008 May/Jun Release Date: Friday, April 18, 2008
Quick ID: 0805021
May/June 2008 MVP Corner by Jean-Paul S. BoodhooSo you have researched agile development techniques, and are all fired up to put them into practice.Armed with this drive and passion to learn, what are some steps that you as an individual can take to incrementally grow your knowledge and practice of agile development techniques?
- Meeting Bill Gates
Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2008 Mar/Apr Release Date: Friday, February 29, 2008
Quick ID: 0803021
Mar/April 08 MVP Article by Julia Lerman
- Visual Basic and Respect
Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2008 Jan/Feb Release Date: Friday, December 28, 2007
Quick ID: 0801111
Ken Getz Jan/Feb 08 FInalize article.
- It’s an Agile World
Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2008 Jan/Feb Release Date: Friday, December 28, 2007
Quick ID: 0801011
Jan/Feb 08 Editorial by Rod Paddock
- Guilty Pleasures and LINQ
Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2007 Nov/Dec Release Date: Friday, October 26, 2007
Quick ID: 0711101
Nov/Dec 2007 .Finalize Column() Ken Getz
- The Baker’s Dozen: 13 Comparisons Between Crystal Reports and SQL Server Reporting Services
Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2007 Nov/Dec Release Date: Friday, October 26, 2007
Quick ID: 0711041
Recent polls show that nearly fifty percent of applications with reporting functionality use Crystal Reports, and about twenty percent use SQL Server Reporting Services. This article will cover some of the major reporting tasks that developers face, and how the two reporting tools (Crystal and SQL Server Reporting Services) handle the tasks. Finally, I’ll provide a sneak preview at the next scheduled releases of both products (the next version of Crystal Reports and SQL Server Reporting Services 2008).
- The Age of Specialists and Generalists
Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2007 Nov/Dec Release Date: Friday, October 26, 2007
Quick ID: 0711011
Nov/Dec 2007 Editorial Column by Rod Paddock
- LINQ to Entities with Erik Maijer
Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2007 Nov/Dec Release Date: Friday, October 26, 2007
Quick ID: 0711131
In show #270 Richard and I talked to Erik Meijer from Microsoft about LINQ. In this excerpt we talk about LINQ to Entities.
- Coders Anonymous?
Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2007 Nov/Dec Release Date: Thursday, October 25, 2007
Quick ID: 0711021
Have you ever spent hours and hours trying to figure out one little bug? Stayed up all night trying to work out a sweet piece of code? Gotten totally lost in trying to see how some new developer technology works?
- Welcome Letter
Magazine/Issue: CoDe Focus Magazine, 2007 - Vol. 4 - Issue 3 - Data Programability Release Date: Wednesday, October 03, 2007
Quick ID: 0712012
Welcome letter
- Re-Igniting Creativity
Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2007 Sep/Oct Release Date: Sunday, August 12, 2007
Quick ID: 0709011
Rod Paddock Editorial for Sept/Oct 2007
- Printing Envelopes, and Lambda Expressions
Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2007 Sep/Oct Release Date: Friday, August 10, 2007
Quick ID: 0709101
.Finalize() column for Sept/Oct 2007
- MVP Corner: 13 Steps for Building an Article
Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2007 - Jul/Aug Release Date: Friday, June 29, 2007
Quick ID: 0707021
July/August 2007 MVP Corner
- Seeing the Silverlight
Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2007 - Jul/Aug Release Date: Friday, June 29, 2007
Quick ID: 0707011
Rod Paddocks July/August 2007 Editorial Article
- MVP Corner: Do You have a Heart Disease?
Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2007 - May/Jun Release Date: Thursday, April 26, 2007
Quick ID: 0705021
Most people who undergo bypass surgery-are back for another one in just a few years-unless they die first of course.
- .NET Rocks!: The Youngest MCP
Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2007 - Mar/Apr Release Date: Friday, March 02, 2007
Quick ID: 0703101
Mar/April 07 Carl Franklin .NET Rocks Column
- .Finalize():There’s a Time and Place for Everything
Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2007 - Jan/Feb Release Date: Friday, December 22, 2006
Quick ID: 0701121
Ken Getz's Finalize column for Jan/Feb 07
- Heard on .NET Rocks!: Microsoft Pundits
Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2006 - Nov/Dec Release Date: Friday, October 20, 2006
Quick ID: 0611091
November/December 06 .NET Rocks Carl Franklin
- MVP Corner: A Baker’s Dozen of Reflections
Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2006 - Nov/Dec Release Date: Friday, October 20, 2006
Quick ID: 0611021
November/December 06 MVP Corner
- .Finalize() - Profiles from Afar
Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2006 - Nov/Dec Release Date: Friday, October 20, 2006
Quick ID: 0611111
Ken Getz November December 06 finalize column.
- Heard on .NET Rocks!: Kimberly Tripp on SQL Server 2005 SP1 and More
Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2006 - Sep/Oct Release Date: Friday, August 18, 2006
Quick ID: 0609101
- .Finalize() - Wasting Energy, and Rotating Things
Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2006 - Sep/Oct Release Date: Friday, August 18, 2006
Quick ID: 0609121
- Visual Studio 2005... That Legacy Software!
Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2006 - Sep/Oct Release Date: Friday, August 18, 2006
Quick ID: 0609021
Admittedly, I’m excited about the many new technologies coming out of Microsoft. So excited that I can’t even decide what to play with first! I wrote about this in a previous MVP Corner piece for CoDe Magazine.
- Heard on .NET Rocks!: Talking .NET with Tim Huckaby
Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2006 - Jul/Aug Release Date: Friday, June 23, 2006
Quick ID: 0607091
July august Carl Franklin .NET Rocks column
- MVP Corner: You Can Make Money, but You Can’t Make Time
Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2006 - Jul/Aug Release Date: Friday, June 23, 2006
Quick ID: 0607021
Time is money.And money is the root of all evil.So waste time. Right?
- .Finalize(): Try and Ye Shall Succeed
Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2006 - May/Jun Release Date: Tuesday, April 11, 2006
Quick ID: 0605111
May/June 06 Finalize Column
- MVP Corner: Technology Overload
Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2006 - May/Jun Release Date: Tuesday, April 11, 2006
Quick ID: 0605021
Julia Lerman MVP Corner article for May/June 06
- Heard on .NET Rocks!: Cogan Rules
Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2006 - May/Jun Release Date: Tuesday, April 11, 2006
Quick ID: 0605091
May June .NET Rocks Column by Carl Franklin
- Bloated Designs, Over-Architecting, and Refactoring
Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2006 - Mar/Apr Release Date: Friday, February 17, 2006
Quick ID: 0603101
- .Finalize(): Reenergize
Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2006 - Jan/Feb Release Date: Tuesday, January 03, 2006
Quick ID: 0601131
- Heard on .NET Rocks!: A Stroll Down RAM Lane with David Treadwell
Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2006 - Jan/Feb Release Date: Tuesday, January 03, 2006
Quick ID: 0601101
- The Baker’s Dozen: 13 Reasons for Upgrading to Visual Studio 2005
Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2005 - Nov/Dec Release Date: Friday, October 28, 2005
Quick ID: 0511021
This installment of “The Baker’s Dozen” covers some of the major features in Visual Studio 2005. Visual Studio 2005 offers language, data handling, and development environment enhancements that are sure to please many developers. Programmers who are currently using Visual Studio .NET 2003 will find many ways to write more efficient code and increase their overall productivity. In addition, programmers who are new to .NET will find the migration to Visual Studio 2005 a bit easier than the migration to the first version of .NET. While it’s not possible to talk about every new feature in Visual Studio 2005, this article will cover many of the primary changes and enhancements.
- Heard on .NET Rocks!: Virtual PC and Virtual Server
Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2005 - Sep/Oct Release Date: Thursday, August 25, 2005
Quick ID: 0509091
.NET Rocks Carl Franklin Column Sep/Oct 05
- .Finalize() - The Living Language-Visual Basic 2005
Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2005 - Jul/Aug Release Date: Monday, June 20, 2005
Quick ID: 0507111
Ken Getz - Finalize Column - July/August 2005
- The Times they Are a Changin'
Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2005 - Jul/Aug Release Date: Monday, June 20, 2005
Quick ID: 0507011
Rod Paddock Editorial Article July/August 2005
- dotNetTemplar vs. angryCoder: To Go Live, or Not to Go Live
Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2005 - Jul/Aug Release Date: Monday, June 20, 2005
Quick ID: 0507021
Angry Coder - Jonathan Goodyear and J. Ambrose Little - July/August 2005
- Heard on .NET Rocks!: Spring.NET
Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2005 - Mar/Apr Release Date: Friday, February 18, 2005
Quick ID: 0503101
Carl Franklin .NET Rocks Column
- It's a Blog World
Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2005 - Jan/Feb Release Date: Friday, December 24, 2004
Quick ID: 0501011
Rod Paddock January February 2005 Editorial Article
- Heard on .NET Rocks: Jay Roxe
Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2005 - Jan/Feb Release Date: Tuesday, December 21, 2004
Quick ID: 0501091
Carl Franklin - Jan/Feb 05 .NET Rocks Column
- .Finalize() - Climbing Hills and Making Rules
Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2004 - September/October Release Date: Friday, August 20, 2004
Quick ID: 0409131
Ken Getz' .Finalize() column.
- What Makes an Effective Software Manager?
Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2004 - September/October Release Date: Friday, August 20, 2004
Quick ID: 0409011
Rod Paddock Editorial September October 2004 Issue
- Die VSS Die!
Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2004 - September/October Release Date: Friday, August 20, 2004
Quick ID: 0409021
Jonathan Goodyear (the Angry Coder) September/October 2004
- Heard on .NET Rocks!
Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2004 - July/August Release Date: Sunday, June 20, 2004
Quick ID: 0407091
I am the host of .NET Rocks!, an Internet audio talk show for .NET developers online at www.franklins.net/dotnetrocks and msdn.microsoft.com/dotnetrocks. My co-host, Rory Blyth (www.neopoleon.com), and I interview the movers and shakers in the .NET community. We now have over 60 shows archived online, and we broadcast a new show every Thursday night from 10PM to Midnight, Eastern Standard Time (GMT-5). For more history of the show check out the May/June 2004 issue of CoDe Magazine, in which this column first appeared.
- Life Is A Loop
Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2004 - July/August Release Date: Sunday, June 20, 2004
Quick ID: 0407021
Jonathan Goodyear (the Angry Coder) July/August 2004
- .Finalize() - Keeping Secrets
Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2004 - July/August Release Date: Sunday, June 20, 2004
Quick ID: 0407111
Ken Getz' .Finalize() column.
- CoDe Magazine Philosophy
Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2004 - July/August Release Date: Sunday, June 20, 2004
Quick ID: 0407011
Rod Paddock Editorial July August 2004 Issue
- The Importance of Friends
Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2002 - Sept/Oct Release Date: Thursday, August 15, 2002
Quick ID: 0209011
Rod Paddock Editorial March April 2004 Issue
- The Silver Bullet is Found
Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2002 - July/Aug Release Date: Saturday, June 15, 2002
Quick ID: 0207011
Rod Paddock Editorial July August 2002 Issue
- The diminishing importance of HTML
Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2002 - July/Aug Release Date: Saturday, June 15, 2002
Quick ID: 0207031
HTML-based Web development has dominated application development for the last six years or so and there are no signs of that changing.However, things are changing as the .NET initiative takes hold. Although Microsoft has put a lot of effort into its Web-based interfaces, which include the powerful new ASP.NET Web Forms framework, I am guessing that there will actually be a push back to desktop-driven, forms-based applications once .NET takes hold.
- User Groups - The Next Generation
Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2002 - July/Aug Release Date: Saturday, June 15, 2002
Quick ID: 0207101
David Stevenson's Column - July August 02
- A developer's life...
Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2002 - July/Aug Release Date: Saturday, June 15, 2002
Quick ID: 0207121
This page is dedicated to non-technical aspects of our lives as developers.Look here in each issue for commentary and insight into the struggles and joys of balancing life and logic.
- All for a Box of Onions
Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2002 - May/June Release Date: Monday, April 15, 2002
Quick ID: 0205011
Rod Paddock Editorial May June 2002 Issue
- How Microsoft Builds Community
Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2002 - May/June Release Date: Monday, April 15, 2002
Quick ID: 0205041
During the Visual Studio .NET Launch February 13 at VSLive! 2002 in San Francisco, Markus Egger and David Stevenson of Component Developer Magazine interviewed a panel of Microsoft personnel about the concept of developer communities.In this free-ranging discussion, we learned how Microsoft desires to support and encourage the growth inside developer "ecosystems" by focusing considerable resources on "community outreach."
- Riding new technology waves
Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2002 - March/April Release Date: Friday, February 15, 2002
Quick ID: 0203011
Rod Paddock - March April 02 Editorial
- Crawl, walk, run. Could be fun.
Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2002 - Jan/Feb Release Date: Saturday, December 15, 2001
Quick ID: 0201011
David Stevenson Editorial Article Jan/Feb 2002
- Surprise, Surprise, Surprise!
Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2001 - Issue 2 Release Date: Sunday, April 15, 2001
Quick ID: 0102011
Issue 2 2001 David Stevenson Editorial Article
- Keeping Up
Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2001 - Issue 1 Release Date: Monday, January 15, 2001
Quick ID: 0101011
Issue 1 2001 Editorial Article
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