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Thursday, March 31, 2005 1:39 PM

So you want to write a computer book?

I've gotten asked a bunch of times about writing a book, so I decided to write a short article about it. So you want to write a computer book? If you have comments, please let me know. Useful/Not useful? What else does it need to cover?
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Thursday, March 31, 2005 8:49 AM

One more weekend of skiing

It's been cold and rainy the last week or so here, and our mountain snowpack has increased by a couple of feet, so the on-again, off-again ski areas have opened again for a last gasp (perhaps for this weekend, perhaps next as well). So, we'll be up at
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Wednesday, March 30, 2005 2:13 PM

The Network: Money Money 2020

A few weeks ago, I was reading the Seattle Times, and what should I find, but an article about the Japanese bank, Polysics . They were described as having a sound reminiscent of Devo . That piqued my interest, as I've always been a fan of Devo, though
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Monday, March 28, 2005 9:23 PM

Book Review: Take Back Your Life!

Last spring I had the opportunity to take a class single-day class named "Take Back Your Life - Using Microsoft Outlook to Get Organized and Stay Organized", taught by Sally McGhee. The class is no longer taught, but the bulk of the advice is now available
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Sunday, March 27, 2005 5:59 PM

C# language forum...

Some of the people on the C# Language Forum suggested that I post a link, since it's been quite a while. This is a forum for discussing the C# Language itself.
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Thursday, March 24, 2005 9:02 PM

Question

Who makes sure that all the cows' wishes come true? The Dairy Godmother
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Wednesday, March 23, 2005 10:55 AM

Design for Performance vs. Tune for performance

A question related to performance came up today on a mailing list that I'm on, and I stated that the right way to do things was to do performance work based on measurements (ie don't engage in speculative optimization). Another list member wrote back
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Tuesday, March 22, 2005 9:33 PM

Eric Rudder chat transcript

Lots of good information about Whidbey and other stuff.
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Friday, March 18, 2005 9:33 AM

Turn around bright eyes

George is a PM (and friend) who used to be on the C# team (among others) - like me - but (unlike me) left the company to do something different, which in his case involves making Africa a better place. I'm not entirely confident, however, that this link
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Friday, March 18, 2005 9:07 AM

Profilers for the CLR

Once again, a nice resource post from Brad: Profilers for the CLR
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Thursday, March 17, 2005 1:52 PM

Waterfalls of the Pacific Northwest

One of the cool things about the internet has always been the ability of people who are really into something to share their passion with others. Today, I came across a link to Waterfalls of the Pacific Northwest . What a cool site...
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Wednesday, March 16, 2005 8:34 AM

TechEd 2005...

After a few years of constant attendance at TechEd, this year I'm going to be working back in Redmond. But there will be other people there, and who knows? You might have an interesting experience ...
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Tuesday, March 15, 2005 4:22 PM

Still waiting on HD...

I've had an HD-ready TV for about 3 years now, but I have no HD sources. Initially, it was because for DirecTV, you could either have an HD receiver or you could have a DirectTiVo, but not both, and TiVo was far more important to me... Then, when the
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Tuesday, March 15, 2005 9:09 AM

An Icon Speaks...

Back in 1984, I was in an algorithms class, using Sedgewick's excellent text entitled simply, "Algorithms" (which later spawned variants in other languages). I learned a lot from that class, but there were a few questions now answered in the text, and
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Tuesday, March 15, 2005 8:57 AM

A new Anders Interview...

Anders talks with the .NET Developer's Journal. From Brad .
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Thursday, March 10, 2005 12:15 PM

New High tech product thats sure to please

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Wednesday, March 09, 2005 9:09 AM

Flow, coding, and math

Rory wrote a post entitled " Whole Brain Coding " a couple of days ago, in which he asserts that coding requires both the left and right halves of the brain, the left brain working on the sequential and analytical parts of the task, and the right brain
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Wednesday, March 09, 2005 8:43 AM

Field names...

There are three common choices for field name conventions in C# code: No prefix ("string name;") Underscore ("string _name;") MFC-style ("string m_name;") I label the third MFC-style because that's where I first encountered it. In the past, I haven't
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Wednesday, March 09, 2005 8:35 AM

Cyrus takes on Hungarian Notation

Cyrus takes on Hungarian Notation I've written a fair bit of code that both uses Hungarian, and code that doesn't use Hungarian. I think Hungarian works okay for C code, but when you get into the object oriented world, you can't really come up with prefixes
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Tuesday, March 08, 2005 5:00 PM

Updated version of my book coming...

In the spring before C# was first disclosed, I ended up, through a curious juxtaposition of events, writing a book on C# named " A Programmer's Introduction to C# " This probably rates second on the list of "cool things I got to do while I was on the
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Monday, March 07, 2005 10:15 AM

What's wrong with this picture?

From right to left, Ford, Marvin, Trillian, and Zaphod. If you don't know what this is a picture of, then you can safely stop reading now. I came across this via a link from Scoble , who linked to a Greg Hughes Post . While it's pretty likely that I'm
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Sunday, March 06, 2005 3:58 PM

Not too cool for help...

I just got back from my last day of skiing this season - "last day" because of the lack of snow. When my daughter first started skiing, we stood around and watched her at her lesson. We didn't want to do that the next year, so we signed up for lessons
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Friday, March 04, 2005 2:48 PM

Web-based community sites...

I'm looking for a place to host a site with some information for our homeowner's association. I'm considering MSN groups, but would like to know what else is out there. My requirements: Document storage Discussion forums, with email delivery Authentication
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Friday, March 04, 2005 9:38 AM

My next sport...

A team member sent this around, and it seems like I would be a natural (though, unfortunately, my background is on the Swedish side rather than the Norwegian, but my guess is that they'd be willing to let that slide). Back when I was in college, we had
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Friday, March 04, 2005 9:28 AM

Free Ebooks...

Apress has decided to make some of their back catalog available as free downloadable e-books . This includes Troelson's "COM and .NET Interoperability", a book I used to have until it went walkabout . Andrew obviously doesn't get any revenue from this,
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Thursday, March 03, 2005 9:04 AM

Generics and CLS compliance...

This is dated news by now, but since I missed it, you might have as well. It was decided back in December that Generics would be CLS-compliant for Whidbey. This is very good news. While I fully expected customers to use generics in Whidbey regardless
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Thursday, March 03, 2005 8:59 AM

PowerCollections Video

Gus points to a nice video with Peter Golde (ex C# language designer and compiler dev lead) about the Power Collections project. Peter has a nice blog where he talks and asks questions about how things should work.
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Wednesday, March 02, 2005 9:25 PM

Twilight Zone Mods

I was going to call this "Pimp Your Pin", but decided on a more descriptive title. A week or so ago, I spent a few hours installing some mods to my Twilight Zone. The first one was the backboard decal . Easy to install, though the decal needed to be trimmed
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Tuesday, March 01, 2005 12:16 PM

Job openings on the MovieMaker team

The Windows Movie Maker team has a couple of job openings right now. If you're interested in working on a great team using cool technology, please follow these links for more information: Software Development Engineer/Test Software Development Engineer
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