Articles filed in category 'Opinion'

Ken Getz' .Finalize() column.

Ken Getz' .Finalize() column.

Ken Getz November December 06 finalize column.

Ken Getz - Finalize Column - July/August 2005

.Finalize() - Wasting Energy, and Rotating Things

May/June 06 Finalize Column

Ken Getz's Finalize column for Jan/Feb 07

Mar/April 07 Carl Franklin .NET Rocks Column

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.

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

Rod Paddock Editorial May June 2002 Issue

Bloated Designs, Over-Architecting, and Refactoring

Rod Paddock Editorial July August 2004 Issue

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?

David Stevenson Editorial Article Jan/Feb 2002

Jonathan Goodyear (the Angry Coder) September/October 2004

Angry Coder - Jonathan Goodyear and J. Ambrose Little - July/August 2005

Rod discusses learning from his mistakes.

Ken Getz .Finalize() column for September/October 2008

Our industry is constantly changing. So much so, that it is difficult to keep up sometimes.

Nov/Dec 2007 .Finalize Column() Ken Getz

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 CoD...e Magazine, in which this column first appeared.See More

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.See More

Heard on .NET Rocks!: Kimberly Tripp on SQL Server 2005 SP1 and More

November/December 06 .NET Rocks Carl Franklin

July august Carl Franklin .NET Rocks column

May June .NET Rocks Column by Carl Franklin

Carl Franklin .NET Rocks Column

.NET Rocks Carl Franklin Column Sep/Oct 05

Carl Franklin - Jan/Feb 05 .NET Rocks Column

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."

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?

Jan/Feb 08 Editorial by Rod Paddock

Rod Paddock January February 2005 Editorial Article

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 processSee More

Issue 1 2001 Editorial Article

Sept/Oct 08 Editorial by Rod Paddock

Rod and his team go back to a client site and uncover useful things from their involvement in the upgrade.

Jonathan Goodyear (the Angry Coder) July/August 2004

In show #270 Richard and I talked to Erik Meijer from Microsoft about LINQ. In this excerpt we talk about LINQ to Entities.

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.

Ted explains why branding is important, no matter how big or small your company is.

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 h...ow to deal with annoying co-workers like yourself.See More

Ted Neward explains how taking the negative approach just might lead to leaner, cleaner code.

Ted Neward's b-monthly column on development. This issue Ted discusses the concept of developer passion.

If your calendar has more meetings scheduled into it that time to work, you’ll appreciate Mike Yeager’s suggestions for making meetings more efficient.

Mar/April 08 MVP Article by Julia Lerman

November/December 06 MVP Corner

Jan/Feb 09 MVP Corner by Chris Williams

Julia Lerman MVP Corner article for May/June 06

July/August 2007 MVP Corner

Most people who undergo bypass surgery-are back for another one in just a few years-unless they die first of course.

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.

Time is money.And money is the root of all evil.So waste time. Right?

A lot of new things are going on at CODE Magazine, both online and offl ine, and both directly associated with the magazine as well as efforts even more directly related to your development efforts. You may have already seen some of the things we do with CODE Consulting (www.codemag.com/consulting) and CODE Training (www.codemag.com/training), but today I would like to draw your attention to other things.

In this column Ted discusses real perils of being a part of a startup.

Rod Paddock's May/June 2009 Editorial article.

Nov/Dec 2010 Post Mortem Article by Dan Appleman

.Finalize() column for Sept/Oct 2007

Rod Paddock Editorial for Sept/Oct 2007

Rod Paddock - March April 02 Editorial

Rod Paddocks Jan/Feb 09 Editorial

Rod Paddocks July/August 2007 Editorial Article

Issue 2 2001 David Stevenson Editorial Article

Nov/Dec 2007 Editorial Column by Rod Paddock

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).See More

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 bi...t 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.See More

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.

Rod Paddock Editorial March April 2004 Issue

Dino explains the business layer so that even a seven-year-old can understand.

Rod Paddock Editorial July August 2002 Issue

Dino has a somewhat literary take on the things that go wrong in software development. You’ll follow him through the seven rings of Software Hell in a parallel to Dante’s “Divine Comedy.”

Rod Paddock Editorial Article July/August 2005

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 ti...me 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.See More

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-breaki...ng 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.See More

David Stevenson's Column - July August 02

Ken Getz Jan/Feb 08 FInalize article.

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.

Rod Paddock editorial Jan/Feb 2011

Rod Paddock Editorial September October 2004 Issue