Rod Paddock founded Dash Point Software, Inc. in 2001 to develop high-quality custom software solutions. With 30+ years of experience, Rod's current and past clients include: Six Flags, First Premier Bank, Microsoft, Calamos Investments, The US Coast Guard, and US Navy. Along with developing software, Rod is a well-known author and conference speaker. Since 1995, Rod has given talks, training sessions, and keynotes in the US, Canada, and Europe. Rod has been Editor-in-Chief of CODE Magazine since 2001.

Articles Authored

• .Finalize(): Reenergize
• .NET Core: The WOW Factor
• .NET Focus Features Fabulous Features
• .NET Gripes and XAML Worries
• 10,000 Hours to Graceland
• A Software "Pre-mortem"
• Act 1: Into the Great Unknown
• Act II
• AI is Stimulating Change
• All for a Box of Onions
• Always Be Learning
• An Important Milestone
• Artistic Collaboration
• Axes and Imagination
• Back to Basics
• Beating the Doldrums
• Best Practices
• Boy Scouts, Dungeons and Dragons, and Community
• Building Command Line Utilities in C# and Python
• Can a Fish Use a Bicycle?
• Chapter 10
• Choices, Choices, Choices
• CODE Magazine 10 Years Later
• CODE Magazine Philosophy
• Code Smells Are Universal
• Codes of Conduct
• Comparing VFP String Performance to .NET String Performance
• Continuing Education
• Creating Custom Data Extensions for SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services
• Creating User-Defined Data Types in Yukon
• Creating Visual Studio Add-Ins
• Creative Fear
• Creative Symbiosis
• Curiosity-Driven Development
• Decades of Thanks
• Developers Toolkit
• Don’t Be a Veruca Salt
• Don’t Go Down with Sunk Costs
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• Ending Malaise
• Error-Driven Development
• Exploring Tablet PC Application Deployment
• Finding Inspiration
• Finding Your Cohort
• Focusing on What Matters
• Grokking .NET
• Hearts and Minds
• I Have a Dream
• Integrating .NET Code and SQL Server Reporting Services
• Introduction to Ruby on Rails
• Introduction to Snowflake
• Is It Time for a Change?
• It’s an Agile World
• It's a Blog World
• It's the Concept... (Editorial)
• Keeping the Creative Fires Lit
• Languages Re-Unleashed
• Lessons Learned from a Second Trip Around the Block
• Life Lessons for Developers
• Longevity
• Looking Forward and Back (Editorial)
• Looking Into the Future
• Making Informed Decisions
• Musings of a Wandering Developer
• Never Give Up
• New in .NET 7
• Not a Spectator Sport
• Not Found in a College Course Curriculum
• On Change
• On Conferences
• On Influence
• One Fret Away from Harmony
• Open Source Software
• Part 3: Merrily We Roll Along
• Part 4: The Tenets of UAT
• Post Mortem Web Project
• Potential and Possibility
• Process Introspection
• Processing Large Datasets Using C# and SQL Server Table Data Types
• Programming Twittering with Visual Basic
• RAD in the Time of Agile Development
• Recovering Creativity
• Reflections on 2007
• Re-Igniting Creativity
• Remote Collaboration
• Riding new technology waves
• Rodman Visits the World of FX on Hulu’s “Devs”
• Roundtables vs. Lunch Counters
• Scripts for All Reasons
• Security Is Job One!
• Seeing the Silverlight
• Seeking Scale
• Shokunin
• Show Me the Money and Other Sundry Stories
• Small Building Blocks
• Smaller Is Better
• So Many Choices
• So Many Choices, So Little Time
• So You Want to Be a Consultant: Risk Management
• So You Want to Be a Consultant?
• Software Development and Filmmaking Parallels
• State of .NET Development
• Surfs Up!
• Take a Break
• The Age of Specialists and Generalists
• The Art of Making Art
• The Cloud Networking Effect
• The Computer is My Paintbrush
• The Curious Coder
• The House that Fox Built
• The Importance of Community
• The Importance of Friends
• The Joy of Being a Beginner
• The Modern World of Mobility
• The New Normal
• The Power of the Pivot
• The Secrets of Manipulating CSV Files
• The Silver Bullet is Found
• The Times they Are a Changin'
• The Times they are A-changin!
• The Times, They are a-Changin'
• The Way of the Coder
• Theory Meets Reality
• Things Will Be Different
• Toys, Toys, Toys
• Tragedy and a Call to Action
• Twenty Years as a Software Engineer
• Unfinished Paintings
• Unlearn
• Using MySQL 4.0 with .NET
• Using the Amazon Web Service SDK for .NET
• Using the Microsoft Visual Studio Tools for the Microsoft Office System
• VB Paradigm Shift
• Visual FoxPro 9 IDE Enhancements
• We Are Customer Service!
• We Are Our Environment (Editorial)
• What Makes an Effective Software Manager?
• Who Is Your Audience?
• Wither T-SQL
• You Get What You Pay For
• Your Future is Our Responsibility

Contact Information:

• Phone: 832-717-4445