Jeff Atwood

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About... The About Box

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About... The About Box

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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In the beginning, there was Movable Type

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In the beginning, there was Movable Type

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

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Recommended Reading for Developers

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Recommended Reading for Developers

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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About Me

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About Me

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

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