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The Flawed Eventually-upgrade Software Model Terrence Dorsey14-Feb-12 9:46 Terrence Dorsey 14-Feb-12 9:46  Is an indefinite support model the future for software? Source: Peter Ritchie And the most in-demand tech skills of 2012... Terrence Dorsey14-Feb-12 9:46 Terrence Dorsey 14-Feb-12 9:46  Are you keeping up with job market? Source: VentureBeat 80% of Windows Phone Developers Not Using the Free Tools ActiveNick14-Feb-12 8:45 ActiveNick 14-Feb-12 8:45  Say what you will about Windows Phone vs iOS or Android, one thing most experts agree with is Microsoft knows how to make really good development tools. Windows Phone is no exception. The Windows Phone SDK, combined with Visual Studio 2010, provide us with amazing facilities to create Windows Phone applications and games with Silverlight and XNA. The best part is thanks to the Visual Studio 2010 Express Edition, you can get all the tools you need to get started from Microsoft for free. It doesn’t stop there. The App Hub contains a ton of education resources, the MSDN documentation is vastly superior, the community is super active, and there are also a lot of free tools for Windows Phone mobile development, from Microsoft and the community alike... Keep reading on my blog at: http://community.infragistics.com/blogs/nick-landry/archive/2012/02/14/80-of-windows-phone-developers-not-using-the-free-tools.aspx[^] Nick Landry, MVP - Windows Phone Development Senior Product Manager - Infragistics NetAdvantage for Windows Phone NetAdvantage for WPF Data Visualization NetAdvantage for Silverlight Data Visualization Twitter: @ActiveNick Blog: www.ActiveNick.net Windows 8 is not all about Tablets, it’s about the future Terrence Dorsey13-Feb-12 14:11 Terrence Dorsey 13-Feb-12 14:11  Let’s have a candid discussion about the state of the Windows PC business. Source: Hal's (Im)Perfect Vision Put your programming skills to the test Terrence Dorsey13-Feb-12 11:11 Terrence Dorsey 13-Feb-12 11:11  Try out a programming challenge right now. Source: Coderbyte Why I left Perl Terrence Dorsey13-Feb-12 11:10 Terrence Dorsey 13-Feb-12 11:10  It all began in a Fortran course my freshman year in college... Source: Dr. Drang Back on Linux Terrence Dorsey13-Feb-12 11:10 Terrence Dorsey 13-Feb-12 11:10  You don't know how lucky you are, boy... Source: dywypi.org .NET: So long and thanks for all the fish Terrence Dorsey13-Feb-12 11:10 Terrence Dorsey 13-Feb-12 11:10  The secret to life, the universe and everything not on .NET development stack. Source: lucisferre Bad Metaphors (for OOP) Terrence Dorsey13-Feb-12 11:09 Terrence Dorsey 13-Feb-12 11:09  The mother-and-child reunion is only a motion() away. Source: Fabulous Adventures In Coding The Gradual Decline in Silverlight Adoption Terrence Dorsey13-Feb-12 11:09 Terrence Dorsey 13-Feb-12 11:09  So what went wrong? Source: Colin Eberhardt Seven equations that rule your world Terrence Dorsey13-Feb-12 11:08 Terrence Dorsey 13-Feb-12 11:08  The math behind the technology of daily life. Source: New Scientist Don't say you weren't warned Terrence Dorsey13-Feb-12 11:08 Terrence Dorsey 13-Feb-12 11:08  Looking back on Arthur C. Clarke's Profiles of the Future. Source: Nicholas Carr Content Everywhere, But Not A Drop To Drink Terrence Dorsey13-Feb-12 11:08 Terrence Dorsey 13-Feb-12 11:08  On the sorry state of the tech press. Source: parislemon Re: Content Everywhere, But Not A Drop To Drink Terrence Dorsey13-Feb-12 14:23 Terrence Dorsey 13-Feb-12 14:23  For context (warning, rough language): Hit men, click whores, and paid apologists: Welcome to the Silicon Cesspool[^] from RealDan. Note that the original article was removed from the Daily Insider prior to publication because I don't want to support this kind of shill pseudo journalism if I can avoid it. But it remains here to entertain the cynical and the curious. Director of Content Development, The Code Project Can Microsoft overcome the smartphone app gap? Terrence Dorsey13-Feb-12 11:07 Terrence Dorsey 13-Feb-12 11:07  There’s more to using apps than just the apps themselves. Source: TechFlash Coming in 2012: Firefox for Windows 8's Metro Terrence Dorsey13-Feb-12 11:06 Terrence Dorsey 13-Feb-12 11:06  In theory this means a browser written in Silverlight or XAML. Source: CNET The Development Pendulum Terrence Dorsey12-Feb-12 10:27 Terrence Dorsey 12-Feb-12 10:27  Life is a game of overshooting and adjusting. Source: Making the Complex Simple 11 Resources for Learning Unix Programming Terrence Dorsey12-Feb-12 10:27 Terrence Dorsey 12-Feb-12 10:27  ...without having to write C code. Source: Jesse Storimer I am a great programmer, but horrible algorithmist Terrence Dorsey12-Feb-12 10:26 Terrence Dorsey 12-Feb-12 10:26  Do other programmers struggle with this as well? Source: The Trendline Coding tricks of game developers Terrence Dorsey12-Feb-12 10:26 Terrence Dorsey 12-Feb-12 10:26  Level up your programming skills. Source: Dodgy Coder Are You a Zen Coder or Distraction-Junkie? Terrence Dorsey12-Feb-12 10:26 Terrence Dorsey 12-Feb-12 10:26  .NET mind, beginner mind. Source: Component Owl Hashing for privacy in social apps Terrence Dorsey12-Feb-12 10:25 Terrence Dorsey 12-Feb-12 10:25  The false dilemma of privacy versus social features. Source: Matt Gemmell Microsoft was running Windows on ARM two years ago Terrence Dorsey12-Feb-12 10:24 Terrence Dorsey 12-Feb-12 10:24  StrongARM-ing Windows into mobile devices. Source: The Verge Why are ugly websites so successful? Terrence Dorsey12-Feb-12 10:24 Terrence Dorsey 12-Feb-12 10:24  Visual appeal is rarely a major factor for the customer. Source: Gerry McGovern The generalization of “NoSQL” Terrence Dorsey12-Feb-12 10:23 Terrence Dorsey 12-Feb-12 10:23  Not all NoSQL solutions are created equal. Source: kellabyte

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