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Thanks to my friend, Geoff Dalgas, for pointing out an interesting article at kuro5hin.org, which analyzes the comments inside the recently leaked Microsoft Windows NT/2k code. Very amusing, with some surprising insights into the mindset of the coders working at Microsoft: In the struggle to meet deadlines, I
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You’d think someone would have written a decent, generic .NET About Box by now. Well, if it’s out there, I couldn’t find it! The About Box isn’t an essential part of any application, but my research (and practical experience) indicates it has two key uses: * For
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After working with VB6 and “classic” ASP for so long, I got spoiled with effectively nonexistent compile times. Part of that, of course, is due to how old the environments are – or were. I remember using VB5 shortly after its release on Pentium 1 class hardware, and it wasn’t
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Writing code all day sort of saps my will to come home and... write more code. With that in mind I set out to find existing blog software rather than rolling my own. Life’s just too short, and besides, never write what you can steal – right? I experimented with
programming languages
This list was last updated February 2025. Why are updates to my reading list so rare? Because computers change a lot in 10 years, but people don’t. To make better software, you need to understand how people work, and that is what the books I recommend tend to focus
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I’m Jeff Atwood. I live in Alameda, CA with my partner, two cats, one three children, and a whole lot of computers. I was weaned as a software developer on various implementations of Microsoft BASIC in the 1980s, starting with my first microcomputer, the Texas Instruments TI-99/4a. I