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I’ve designed literally dozens of component APIs over the years, including for clients like Apple, and I’ve learned quite a bit about the process. I periodically release open source components too, and the feedback I’ve had has helped me put together a set of guidelines for API design that I’d like to share with you. APIs are UX for developers.
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Interested in writing games for Windows 8? Here's a list of resources Glen Gordon shared at the Atlanta chapter of the International Game Developers Association (IGDA) when he gave an introductory talk on building Metro style games for Windows 8. Click on the tiles and win!
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Koans allow you to 'try out' aspects of a language while working in the language. As you change the blank (variable) to the correct answer and get the tests to pass, be sure to ask yourself after you get a green bar for each method, 'What did I just learn?' Learn LINQ by doing LINQ, grasshopper.
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Just been messing around with VB11 and did an implementation of the Bottles Of Beer Song. Take the code down and pass it around.
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I believe in the sustained relevance of ‘big agenda’ in software engineering: providing scientifically well-founded methods and tools to underpin the development of software systems that meet the needs of users, rapidly and at reduced cost. Better, faster, cheaper, in other words. Substantial technical progress has been made but, it could be argued, we are seeing some evidence of receding impact in those areas where that progress has significantly outstripped the capacity of practice to absorb innovation. Better, stronger, faster?
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"We can turn any surface into a 3D touchscreen," explained Anup Chathoth, one third of Munich-based startup Ubi Interactive. Such claims typically conjure up images of floating Minority Report-style touchscreens made from curved glass, but that's exactly what this three-person team has developed. They saw the writing on the wall... and clicked it.
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The Unix philosophy is a noble idea, but even Unix doesn’t follow it too closely. Why does ls have dozens of tangled options? Because users, even Unix users, are not overly fond of the first two points of the Unix philosophy. They don’t want to chain little programs together. They’d rather do more with the tool at hand than put it down to pick up new tools. Seemed | like -a | good | idea | @the | time
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Remember the roll-up electronic newspapers from the movie Minority Report? We could soon see something similar used in cell phone, e-reader and tablet displays. Well, maybe not quite, but companies like Samsung and LG are already producing flexible displays for future products. These displays might not be as bendable as a newspaper, but they will offer some enticing design possibilities for hardware manufacturers. More after the fold.
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My experience on the ECPI advisory board made me start considering how I would design a degree program that would properly prepare a student to enter the business world as a developer. So, I’m going to list the courses I would require for a software developer degree (not database programmer) in a serialized course setting. Good teacher. He really seems to care. About what I have no idea.
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Someone please tell me we’ve gotten past the either-or debate over NoSQL and relational databases. While NoSQL databases are foundational technologies for web startups — with most of these young companies opting for MongoDB, Cassandra, CouchDB or something else to fulfill their database needs — they might be better served going a hybrid route instead. There’s always room for a good, old-fashioned relational database — especially if they want to conduct and store financial transactions. MySQL vs NoSQL, the SQL.
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We've had that kind of crap for years in the Netherlands (slightly different, but it takes about 20/30 seconds)... It's really very annoying, but I continue to buy my dvd's.
Downloads are missing subs, have wrong subs, are in a wrong spoken language, are in a bad quality, are corrupted, are seemingly really very good until the very end when the big showdown starts and suddenly the movie just stops... I know, I'm just not looking good enough. That's my experience with them anyway (and not just my own downloads).
Buy a dvd, put it in your dvd player and it just works. I can watch it on my own tv, I can watch it downstairs on the big ass tv screen, I can lend it to friends who lend me theirs in return. It never let's me down. That's worth a few bucks to me and I just take those 20/30 seconds government crap for granted 
It's an OO world.
public class Naerling : Lazy<Person>{
public void DoWork(){ throw new NotImplementedException(); }
}
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So is it OK to play a library copy or my friend's copy. That is sort of the same thing.
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Watched a DvD recently where there was an unskippable "thank you for supporting the film industry" which was a FAR better value to me and to the film industry than all this adversarial bullcrap. By targeting the pirates, legit viewers are caught as collateral, and they glamorize piracy. By targeting legit viewers with a positive message, they create a bond between the viewer and the industry, and alienate the pirate.
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I don't understand what the department of homeland security has to do with piracy in the entertainment industry.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Pirates sell copies of DVDs to afford nuke-you-lar WMDs. Duh.
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Microsoft wants Windows developers to write Windows 8-specific, Metro-style, touch-friendly applications, and to make sure that they crank these apps out, the company has decided that Visual Studio 11 Express, the free-to-use version of its integrated development environment, can produce nothing else. Pay to play.
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Unfortunate decision for sure, the Express editions were/are excellent products and I thought were more of a 'grab'em young, keep'em forever' strategy.
But I can see that MS knows Metro will die/survive based on its apps, and they need Metro to survive if they can continue to modernise the Windows platform and drag its from its nasty legacy roots. This move *will* increase the amount of support resources for Metro dev (which is also required) and the apps.
And given that they are free, we can't really complain! The 2010 editions will still work on Windows 8, and if need be coexist with the 11 editions.
Also given that better Metro design relies on MVC/MVVM patterns, it would also mean that more younger devs have exposure to the core ideas that will help them later.
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cjb110 wrote: I thought were more of a 'grab'em young, keep'em forever' strategy.
No, that's what Dreamspark is. Students can get VS Professional, the Expression suite, server OS's, and more for free. I can get multiple copies of most of those because my school also has a program with MS to offer a bunch of software free to its students (including the desktop OS's, the only thing Dreamspark really lacks). That's the real 'grab'em young, keep'em forever'.
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cjb110 wrote: And given that they are free, we can't really complain!
If it doesn't do what I need it to do then free doesn't matter.
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This might be the impetus that SharpDevelop needs to become BIG!
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The current SharpDevelop 4.2 release is already ready for .NET 4.5 and async/await, just install .NET 4.5 and it'll appear in the target framework list.
Yes I guess this might boost our user numbers a bit 
Though I'm not too hopeful that that will translate into increased contributions - Windows developers tend not to think about contributing 
Unfortunately the reduced Windows SDK will also screw us over in some aspects, e.g. the XML documentation files (documentation in IntelliSense) for the .NET 4.5 BCL are no longer available without Visual Studio (previously these were part of the .NET/Windows SDKs).
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are they going to give everyone touch-screen monitors?
no?
screw them.
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No-cost desktop software development is not really dead on Windows 8[^]
Quote: Two packages were used in this mindblowing revelation:
Microsoft Visual Studio 11 Express (C++ compiler and toolset)
Windows Software Development Kit (SDK) for Windows 8 Consumer Preview (for Win32 headers)
Wiring this up to the ‘Express UI is a trivial exercise for the developers out there. (In response to Peter Bright’s story.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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In Windows 8 development, you have several options for building your applications. XAML is one. HTML5 is one. Platforms, distribution, and everything else being equal, I would pick XAML/C# every time over HTML/CSS/JS, and I’ve been a web developer for 14 years. Which would you rather use?
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