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Jeff asked the question ''Should All Developers Have Manycore CPUs?'' this week. There are number of things in his post I disagree with. First, ''dual-core CPUs protect you from badly written software'' is just a specious statement as it's the OS's job to protect you, it shouldn't matter how many cores there are. Second, ''In my opinion, ...

I've been getting more and more interested in how folks extend their applications using plugins and things. In my new ongoing quest to read source code to be a better developer, Dear Reader, I present to you twenty-fourth in a infinite number of posts of ''The Weekly Source Code.'' There's a lot of ways to ''extend'' an application or framework. ...

My ninety-second podcast is up. In this episode, I chat with Paul Vick, Principal VB Architect, and Paul Yuknewicz, a Senior Program Manager on the VB Team about the past, present and future of Visual Basic. Subscribe: ...