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Shut Up and Build Something

I want to preface this post by saying thank you for everyone that contributes to the movement of trying to get women into software. I respect each of you and...

0 replies - 159 views - 11/20/09 by sarajo in News

Microsoft Launches Digital Video Series “Microsoft Health Tech Today”

REDMOND, Wash. — Nov. 10, 2009 — Microsoft Corp. today announced “Microsoft Health Tech Today,” a fast-paced online video series designed to showcase...

0 replies - 45 views - 11/11/09 by alashcraft in Announcements

Our Biggest Enemy Isn’t Developers Who Refuse To Move Forward, It is Developers Who Pretend To Move Forward

Software Engineering is such a nascent practice that we have very little that we can point at for facts, and instead spend much of our time listening to...

1 replies - 1228 views - 10/08/09 by justin_etheredge in News

Young Microsoft Innovators Cited by MIT Magazine

REDMOND, Wash. – Sept. 22, 2009 – Two young Microsoft researchers have earned recognition from Technology Review magazine for their groundbreaking work in...

0 replies - 364 views - 09/22/09 by alashcraft in Announcements

Author Interview: Simone Chiaretta & Keyvan Nayyeri on ASP.NET MVC 1.0

DZone recently had a chance to sit down with Simone Chiaretta and Keyvan Nayyeri, authors of Wrox' Beginning ASP.NET MVC 1.0 and DZone's ASP.NET MVC 1.0...

0 replies - 1893 views - 09/09/09 by alashcraft in Articles

Authors Say: Create a Culture of Performance

REDMOND, Wash. — Sept. 3, 2009 — Microsoft employees Joey Fitts and Bruno Aziza surveyed the business-book landscape and found it lacking. There seemed to...

0 replies - 316 views - 09/03/09 by alashcraft in Announcements

How to "Send To" DZone from Google Reader

Google Reader has added a Send To feature today. There are several built-in options to choose from in...

0 replies - 894 views - 08/13/09 by alashcraft in Articles

Nobody Has a Duty to Teach

At the last conference I attended, Scott Hanselman hosted a session called – Why So Mean? (entire Kyte video here).

1 replies - 755 views - 07/27/09 by Maxfield Pool in News

Video: The Myth of the Genius Programmer

A pervasive elitism hovers in the background of collaborative software development: everyone secretly wants to be seen as a genius. In this talk, we discuss...

0 replies - 1217 views - 07/13/09 by alashcraft in Videos

Features Aren’t Magically Born

Every time I see Pavel working on his laptop, a question pops into my head: Why don’t you use the Aero theme of Windows Vista and Windows 7, and instead...

0 replies - 310 views - 07/08/09 by sashag in News

Why Do We Keep Building Tightly Coupled Software?

A good friend of mine, Kevin Israel, said on twitter today: "how freakin long are *we* gonna keep building tightly coupled software that needs to...

2 replies - 1552 views - 07/06/09 by justin_etheredge in News

Are You in a Claustrophobic Team?

Something that never ceases to humor me is how managers still believe that scaling people on a project will increase the productivity by an equal proportion....

1 replies - 675 views - 06/29/09 by Maxfield Pool in News

An Overview of Wrox Series

I’m happy to say that after almost a year of hard-work on our Beginning ASP.NET MVC 1.0 book, last weekend Simone and I sent the last part of our chapters to...

0 replies - 831 views - 06/10/09 by keyvan in News

AJAX Usage Among .NET Developers – 2009 Edition

Back in December 2007, Simone published an online survey about the usage of AJAX technologies among the .NET developers and after a short while, shared its...

2 replies - 980 views - 06/03/09 by keyvan in News

Why Are You Asking Me This Question?

Imagine this, your boss walks up to you and asks, “You said the code could run on both Windows or Linux, right?” Do you say… A) Yes B) Yes, but not...

0 replies - 396 views - 05/27/09 by Maxfield Pool in News