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How to Know Your Team is Productive and Delivering Quality
Last updated: Tuesday, May 25, 2021
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2017 - March/April
Jeffrey takes a look at the state of the industry and comes up with some interesting ways to measure efficiency and accuracy.
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Challenges, Pains, and Points of Today’s Software Development
Last updated: Tuesday, July 27, 2021
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2015 - March/April
Although some of us write code for the pure joy of it, Dino invites us to think about mobility and the cloud to make apps reflect the world we live in.
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The Mythical Business Layer
Last updated: Wednesday, September 1, 2021
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2014 - November/December
Dino explains the business layer so that even a seven-year-old can understand.
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Editorial
Last updated: Saturday, October 12, 2024
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2014 - May/June
Rod shares a bit of his knowledge over the last 20 years as an independent consultant/contractor.
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Manger's Corner: Simplicity
Last updated: Monday, September 20, 2021
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2014 - May/June
Simplicity doesn’t mean more abstract: it means more basic and clear. Mike tells us how to manage projects without introducing unnecessary complexity.
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Manager's Corner: Meetings
Last updated: Monday, December 27, 2021
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2014 - March/April
If your calendar has more meetings scheduled into it that time to work, you’ll appreciate Mike Yeager’s suggestions for making meetings more efficient.
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Managed Coder: When Responsibility?
Last updated: Thursday, December 16, 2021
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2011 - January/February
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We Are Customer Service!
Last updated: Thursday, December 16, 2021
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2011 - January/February
Rod Paddock editorial Jan/Feb 2011
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Show Me the Money and Other Sundry Stories
Last updated: Wednesday, May 11, 2022
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2010 - November/December
Rod Paddock Nov/Dec 2010 Editorial
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So You Want to Be a Consultant?
Last updated: Thursday, December 16, 2021
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2010 - July/August
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Transitioning from Employee to Self-Employed
Last updated: Tuesday, February 19, 2019
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2010 - January/February
An invaluable self-starter kit from Paul, who has gone through this himself. Paul breaks it down into categories and other useful information you should know.If you are considering making a jump from being an employee to being self-employed, the following article will help you make the transition.
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Heard on .NET Rocks! Is Software Development Too Complex?
Last updated: Saturday, January 18, 2020
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2009 - November/December
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Back to Basics
Last updated: Saturday, December 18, 2021
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2008 - November/December
Rod Paddock's Nov/Dec 2008 Editorial
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Meeting Bill Gates
Last updated: Tuesday, February 19, 2019
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2008 - March/April
Mar/April 08 MVP Article by Julia Lerman
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Coders Anonymous?
Last updated: Thursday, February 21, 2019
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2007 - November/December
Have you ever spent hours and hours trying to figure out one little bug? Stayed up all night trying to work out a sweet piece of code? Gotten totally lost in trying to see how some new developer technology works?
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The Age of Specialists and Generalists
Last updated: Wednesday, May 11, 2022
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2007 - November/December
Nov/Dec 2007 Editorial Column by Rod Paddock
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MVP Corner: 13 Steps for Building an Article
Last updated: Tuesday, February 19, 2019
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2007 - July/August
July/August 2007 MVP Corner
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MVP Corner: Do You have a Heart Disease?
Last updated: Wednesday, February 20, 2019
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2007 - May/June
Most people who undergo bypass surgery-are back for another one in just a few years-unless they die first of course.
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.NET Rocks!: The Youngest MCP
Last updated: Wednesday, February 20, 2019
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2007 - March/April
Mar/April 07 Carl Franklin .NET Rocks Column
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Protect Your Downloadable Files Using HTTP Handlers
Last updated: Tuesday, February 19, 2019
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2007 - March/April
So you finally have a product to sell, and a site to sell it on. But wait; how do you prevent unauthorized users from downloading your products? Forms Authentication provides only part of the solution. In this article, I’ll show how to prevent specific users from accessing specific files on your site; even by browsing directly to them.
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Purporting the Potence of Process
Last updated: Tuesday, February 19, 2019
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2007 - March/April
Do you ever feel like you’re beating your head against a wall? I know I do; quite often, in fact. It seems like developers spend half of their time bending technology to their purposes when the technology doesn’t really quite fit. Well, I’m actually thinking of one problem in particular right now, namely that of validation. Can you think of a more boring topic? There are few, but I think you can agree that it is an extremely important one in business software.
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Coaching Agile Teams: A Companion for ScrumMasters, Agile Coaches, and Project Managers in Transition - Chapter 2
Last updated: Wednesday, August 31, 2022
Published in: Book Excerpts
“This book excerpt is from Coaching Agile Teams: A Companion for ScrumMasters, Agile Coaches, and Project Managers in Transition, authored by Lyssa Adkins, published by Pearson/Addison-Wesley Professional, May 2010, ISBN 0321637704, Copyright 2010 Pearson Education Inc. For a full Table of Contents: www.informit.com/title/0321637704”
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Objects - Chapter 1
Last updated: Saturday, January 18, 2020
Published in: Book Excerpts
“This excerpt is from the book, ‘Windows 7 Device Driver’ by Ronald D. Reeves, Published Nov 16, 2010 by Addison-Wesley Professional. Part of theAddison-Wesley Microsoft Technology Series series.l, ISBN 139780321670212, Copyright 2011. For more info please visit the publisher site: http://www.informit.com/title/0321670213
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PART I Introduction
Last updated: Thursday, February 21, 2019
Published in: Book Excerpts
“From a drop of water . . . a logician could infer the possibility of an Atlantic or a Niagara without having seen or heard of one or the other. So all life is a great chain, the nature of which is known whenever we are shown a single link of it. Like all other arts, the Science of Deduction and Analysis is one which can only be acquired by long and patient study nor is life long enough to allow any mortal to attain the highest possible perfection in it. Before turning to those moral and mental aspects of the matter which present the greatest difficulties, let the enquirer begin by mastering more elementary problems.”-Sherlock Holmes in A Study in Scarlet
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Heard on .NET Rocks!: Microsoft Pundits
Last updated: Friday, February 22, 2019
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2006 - November/December
November/December 06 .NET Rocks Carl Franklin
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Axes and Imagination
Last updated: Saturday, December 18, 2021
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2006 - September/October
So what the heck is Rod doing with Stewie and Brian Griffin (of Family Guy fame) you ask? Well, Rod is sharpening his axe.
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Visual Studio 2005... That Legacy Software!
Last updated: Wednesday, February 20, 2019
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2006 - September/October
Admittedly, I’m excited about the many new technologies coming out of Microsoft. So excited that I can’t even decide what to play with first! I wrote about this in a previous MVP Corner piece for CoDe Magazine.
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Heard on .NET Rocks!: Talking .NET with Tim Huckaby
Last updated: Thursday, February 21, 2019
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2006 - July/August
July august Carl Franklin .NET Rocks column
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MVP Corner: You Can Make Money, but You Can’t Make Time
Last updated: Tuesday, February 19, 2019
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2006 - July/August
Time is money.And money is the root of all evil.So waste time. Right?
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Heard on .NET Rocks!: Cogan Rules
Last updated: Wednesday, February 20, 2019
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2006 - May/June
May June .NET Rocks Column by Carl Franklin
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MVP Corner: Technology Overload
Last updated: Wednesday, February 20, 2019
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2006 - May/June
Julia Lerman MVP Corner article for May/June 06
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Bloated Designs, Over-Architecting, and Refactoring
Last updated: Wednesday, February 20, 2019
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2006 - March/April
Bloated Designs, Over-Architecting, and Refactoring
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Customers vs. Code: Maintaining Relationships
Last updated: Wednesday, November 30, 2022
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2001 - Issue 2
Everything you wanted to know about customers but were too busy coding to ask.
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Customers vs. Code: Analysis
Last updated: Wednesday, November 30, 2022
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2001 - Issue 1
Everything you wanted to know about customers but were too busy coding to ask.Our last column covered negotiating a contract.Assuming you got the contract, it's now time for the analysis phase, part of which is requirements gathering.