David Intersimone on DevCo, the viability of Delphi, and Turbo Ruby

I just got off the phone with David Intersimone. My recent SD Times column on "DevCo," (the codename for the spin-off of Borland's languages and database teams) ruffled some feathers, particularly when I described the Delphi language as "well past its peak, and with its Pascal roots ? on the wrong …

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Hexodoku Programming Contest: Win $200 Worth of The Year's Best Books

My Hexodoku Programming Contest is live: the challenge is to generate 16 x 16 Sudoku grids. If multiple entries can consistently beat 1 second, the winner will be the program with best Big O behavior as the order of the grid scales (4\^4, 5\^4, 6\^4, etc.). The …

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Smalltalkers sneer at my LINQ-thusiasm

James Robertson thinks that I'm too breathless about LINQ in my recent article about C#'s popularity on the CLR. For some reason, I can't post to his comment section, so I'll just respond here and shoot him a trackback:

What got through the asbestos was the comment that I …

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I Want To Know What (Windows) Live Is

My latest column for SD Times discusses Windows Live.

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Programming the Realtime Stylus

My latest article on DevX implements a packet filter and custom selection tool using the Tablet PC RealTime Stylus APIs.

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Photo Annotation and EXIF Metadata Editing With Ink

My latest article for DevX shows how to add ink annotations to photos, both on the image itself and within the EXIF metadata headers.

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The REST Is Salient

The REST is Salient

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A Perfect Demo

A Perfect Demo

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Is InfoPath The New Excel

Is InfoPath the New Excel?

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