Ted Neward argues that "programmers shouldn't fear offshoring."

He has two theses:

• Unlike previous industrial revolutions, the demands in the software industry are such that there'll be plenty of work for all; and
• Best practices seem to indicate that physical proximity is important to software success

I'd like to agree …

The February '06 issue of Game Developer Magazine (hey -- the last magazine I founded that is still in publication) has an article on "Casual Games and the Mass Market." They mean games like those of PopCap and PlayFirst: you know, Bejeweled and the like. Okay, so first of all, it's …

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::: {.Section1} This is a technical paper that contains good advice on domain-specific languages. Via [Lambda the Ultimate] :::

::: {.Section1} Another good article on C#. This one on how to use interop to speed file reading.  [via Steve Pietrek] :::