October 2007 - Posts
A great read from Joel. I think his observations are right on.
This is something I think about often, glad to see others do to. I enjoy management but often wish I was back in the trenches architecting, designing and developing.
I always have to stop and think about a SQL Join before using one. Call me dumb or maybe I just don't get it. It's a block for me.
This blogger explains them well visually. I will keep this link in my favorites!
Petzold writes an interesting blog on authoring programming books.
I agree 100% with him, you do not do it for the money. I co-authored a book once and did not receive a dime, not one dime, for my efforts. In fact, I get paid more to do a technical book reviews for Addison Wesley then I did to author this one. Oh well. I am not complaining as I enjoyed the experience.
Seems Microsoft wants us to see their code, with comments, pretty cool:
http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2007/10/03/releasing-the-source-code-for-the-net-framework-libraries.aspx
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