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My two-hundred-and-third podcast is up . I was in Egypt and had the opportunity to sit down with Lamees and Abeer, two successful women in IT. Lamees is a programmer transitioning to Systems Analysis, and Abeer is a veteran Senior Systems Analyst and
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C# 3.0 introduced the implicit type "var" . I've explained var as saying: "I'm too lazy to tell you the type of this variable, so you figure it out, compiler." However, it's more useful than just promoting terseness or laziness: var
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While the boys are only 2 and 4, I'm always keeping an eye out on new ways to teach them programming. Certainly I hope they'll be more well-rounded and I and spend more time outside, but a even a basic background in programming and logic, I think, produces
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My one-hundred-and-ninety-eighth podcast is up . I sit down with Erik Meijer from the Cloud Programmability Team to hear about the Reactive Extensions for .NET (Rx) . Rx is a library for composing asynchronous and event-based programs using observable
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NOTE: An alternative title to this post might be: " The Weekly Source Code 48: Making The Weekly Source Code 47 Suck Incrementally Less. " Last week I wrote a post about Dynamic Linq Query Generation in order to solve a kind of meta-programming
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My one-hundred-and-ninety-fourth podcast is up . Scott chats with Warren Sande and his 10 year old son, Carter, about their new book " Hello World: Computer Programming for Kids and Other Beginners. " Listeners can get 40% off Hello World! from
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In October of 2008 I took an informal survey on Twitter . I wanted to get an idea of what features of the .NET Framework people were using. Also, here's the disclaimer. I did this on a whim, it's not scientific, so the margin of error is +/-101%. That
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The folks in the .NET Framework Setup team have a favor to ask, and it's pretty cool info so I offered to help. Here's the deal. When .NET 4 releases, the .NET 4 Client Profile will be released as a recommended update on Windows Update (WU) for Vista
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My one-hundred-and-ninety-third podcast is up . Scott talks to Niklas Gustafsson about Axum (formerly Maestro), an incubation project at MSDN DevLabs. Axum is a new language based on the Actor model that targets the CLR. It focuses on making concurrency
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The team I work at Microsoft for is called Server and Tools Online, and one of the things we work on is the Microsoft Developer Network or "MSDN." If you go way, way up, our boss is Soma ( Yes, this Soma ), but down here in the trenches there's
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My one-hundred-and-eighty-first podcast is up . Scott chats with Mono Product Manager Joseph Hill and Monospace conference organizer and continuous learner Scott Bellware about the state of Mono. Is Mono competition or diversity? How hard are cross platform
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Cross-browser testing is a hassle. Most of the time you can follow standards and get a decent looking website working cross browser, but there's always variations. All browsers have their quirks and older IEs have more than their fair share. As I see
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You, Dear Reader, very likely don't need this information. I assume you're probably not a beginner. BUT, you likely KNOW a beginner. Share this information with them! A bunch of people on Twitter discovered the MSDN Beginner Developer Center today. I
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Very cool news. Today Microsoft announce the creation of the CodePlex foundation . That's CodePlex. org . It's amazing the amount of work that goes into something like this. I was in on a lot of very boring (but important) legal conference calls with
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My one-hundred-and-seventy-second podcast is up . Dan Bricklin is an innovator and entrepreneur, and created VisiCalc, the first electronic spreadsheet in 1979. He's just written a book called Bricklin on Technology full of observations, stories, case
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