Every time we release a new version of our flagship DXperience product, I’m reminded of how far we’ve come in the .NET world and, paradoxically, how much further we have to go. I feel as if we’re in a station on the Tube in London, the train has just...

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11 June 2012

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Imitation is the sincerest form of inspiration

I’m sure you read that Facebook bought Instagram recently for little more than the change Zuckerberg found in between his couch cushions. No, I’m not going to talk about that acquisition, but about Instagram. If you haven’t used it, Instagram is a camera...

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8 May 2012

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Getting your ideas across, face-to-face (Message from the CTO, newsletter 53)

This message was fun to write and to record. Since it’s about non-verbal communication, it naturally lent itself to a script format and to video. Getting your ideas across, face-to-face (JULIAN IS COMPLETELY STILL. HE IS READING FROM A SHEET OF PAPER...

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30 August 2011

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Compilers. Compilers? (Message from the CTO, newsletter 52)

Just realized that I hadn’t put last week’s Message from the CTO up as a post. Maybe it was because I was so excited that we’d managed to record it as a video! (And, yes, there are now several videos in the pipeline…) Compilers, compilers? Back in the...

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18 August 2011

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Furious minorities (Message from the CTO, newsletter 51)

It’s again a text-only message this issue, but I’m hopeful that the following will include a video as well. Furious minorities There was a recent article published by the BBC on their news site (" Why do some Americanisms irritate people? "...

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28 July 2011

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Antisocial networks (Message from the CTO, newsletter 50)

Again a “text-only” message this time, but this one is a cry for help. I think. The über-network of social networks I've just signed up for Google+. The invite that finally "took" - all previous invites resulted in "nice try, no spare...

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13 July 2011

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Multitasking (Message from the CTO, newsletter 49)

For one reason or another, Jeff and I ran out of pre-videoed messages this time, so this one is “text only”. Multitasking It’s been such a long time that we’ve been using PCs that multitask well that we don’t even think about it any more. It’s still magic...

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20 June 2011

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Conferences vs. codecamps? Is it binary? (Message from the CTO, newsletter 48)

While at Tech·Ed in Atlanta, Jeff and I recorded a specially-themed Message from the CTO about conferences and the like. Conferences or codecamps? Is it binary? For a change, Jeff and I have moved out of the studio to our booth at TechEd in Atlanta to...

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2 June 2011

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Event-Driven Programming (Message from the CTO, newsletter 47)

You may have noticed that I’m on a JavaScript kick at the moment. My introduction to node.js and real async programming came out of that and I’m still amazed at it all. photo © 2006 Jie Qi | more info (via: Wylio ) Event-driven programming Event-driven...

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12 May 2011

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Erudite Programming (Message from the CTO, newsletter 46)

I wrote this message a good three months ago, but at this remove I can’t remember the exact situation that prompted it. photo © 2010 Eric Bryan | more info (via: Wylio ) Erudite programming We developers have a lot on our plate. There's the design...

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22 April 2011

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