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Why do we get paid so much? by Sijin Joseph

I was just thinking today about why software developers are typically paid so much more than other people in similar kind of work. One reason might be because software companies generate more revenue per employee as compared with other industries. Construction...
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Cool sites discovered using Spiderous by Sijin Joseph

Spiderous is a site that aggregates popular links from social bookmark managers like del.icio.us , spurl and furl Here are some great links I found today Tabs on your webpage using CSS http://phrogz.net/JS/Tabtastic/index.html#overview Like to build your...
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ADO.Net connection pooling by Sijin Joseph

I was reading up on ADO.Net connection pooling yesterday, here is some info that I gathered. The below excrepts are from - Pragmatic ADO.Net (An excellent excellent book on ADO.Net) Connection Pooling Connections are precious commodities, and writing...
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Notes from Webchat on serialization in .Net by Sijin Joseph

I had hosted a webchat on serialization in .Net today, will be posting the link to the transcript as soon as it is up. Bascially the areas I discussed were, Runtime serialization and Xml Serialization. Versioning issues, common problems with serialization...
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Using spiderous to discover cool sites by Sijin Joseph

Once I started using del.icio.us for managing my bookmarks, I came across this site called spiderous which aggregates popular and new bookmarks from sites like del.icio.us , spurl, furl and a couple of others. I make it a point to check out the popular...
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Excellent article on how to start a startup by Sijin Joseph

Paul Graham who has written an excellent article on how to start a startup . He is also the author of a great book called Hackers and Painters , a definte read. http://www.paulgraham.com/start.html
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Load event gets fired on each call to ShowDialog() by Sijin Joseph

While chasing down one bug in my custom message box at codeproject I came acorss an interesting fact. If you use ShowDialog() to show your form then the Load event gets fired everytime. I've been using Winforms for such a long time and was surprised that...
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How to hire Programmers by Sijin Joseph

There is an interesting article on Artima on how to hire programmers . The forums where the article is being discussed has some cool ideas too. http://www.artima.com/wbc/interprog.html http://www.artima.com/forums/flat.jsp?forum=32&thread=3754
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