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At some point, the cheerleaders—and yes, amazingly, they’re out there—are going to have to face reality: Windows 8 is selling slowly. More slowly than Windows 7 at launch, and more slowly than Windows 7 a year ago. And while a peek at NPD’s publicly released data for the holiday selling season can provide some clues as to why, I can tell you exactly what happened. Netbooks didn’t just rejuvenate the market for Windows 7, they also destroyed it from within.
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The link is broken here and in the daily newsletter.
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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it just loaded for me...
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Sorry, must be something on my end...will try it again later.
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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Hate to say this but: works on my machine.
Director of Content Development, The Code Project
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It was working fine for me this morning.
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SyncTools is a meta-tool that keeps a folder on your computer up-to-date with all the latest tools from Sysinternals. Simply pick a folder where you would like to keep the Sysinternals tools and run SyncTools.exe in that folder. It will download all of the tools and check for updates on tools it previously downloaded. Any time Mark Russinovich publishes an updated version or even a completely new tool, simply rerun SyncTools.exe to download it for you. Utilities for utilities. How meta.
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A couple days ago, I announced, on the behalf of the Replicant project, the release of the Replicant 4.0 SDK, motivated by some recent license change regarding the Android SDK: Google decided to put an overall non-free license for their SDK.... These conditions seem totally unacceptable to me and are likely to cause a reaction such as calling the Android SDK proprietary from anyone who values software freedom. Android still uses a free software license, so what's the point of the additional proprietary license?
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Researchers launching a new vector-based video codec this week are claiming their work will lead to the death of the pixel within the next five years.... Digital pictures are built from a rectangular grid of coloured cells, or pixels. The smaller and closer the pixels are together, the better the quality of the image. Pixel-based movies need huge amounts of data and have to be compressed, losing quality. They are also difficult and time consuming to process. The alternative, a vector-based format, presents the image using contoured colours. Until now there has not been a way to choose and fill between the contours at professional quality. The Bath team has finally solved these problems. Lights! Camera! Vectors!
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This has direction and magnitude.
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Sorry.
Interesting.
Bob Dole The internet is a great way to get on the net.
2.0.82.7292 SP6a
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Well drawn, sir. Well drawn.
+5
Director of Content Development, The Code Project
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Thanks.
Bob Dole The internet is a great way to get on the net.
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You see that Jerry is very much a writer… and if you’ve ever written anything yourself you’ll appreciate Jerry’s craftsmanship and how he pays attention to minute details to make something just right. Craftsmanship is knowing that the details matter and that getting them just right is the difference between good and great. But craftsmanship is craftsmanship, no matter what field you’re in. So as I was watching I kept noticing parallels with UI design… Jerry Seinfeld may not be a web designer, but we can learn a lot from his life of craftsmanship.
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So, what makes a good programmer? This is debatable point and to make things simpler, let’s see this the other way round i.e. discuss the top 10 enemies which can prevent oneself from becoming a good programmer. Pro tip: don't do these things.
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"Not being latest" --> bs
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Absolutely. I would say "blindly following the latest" is a huge timesuck and can totally derail a project.
Software is meant to serve a purpose. It's rarely there to be a thing unto itself. It seems more and more devs are forgetting this and focussing on the code and tech rather than what they are trying to actually provide for users.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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riding on .NET 1.0 success Microsoft has spent last few years embarked on changing the programming "Paradigm" (WCF/WPF/SL) - reinventing framework which performs nothing more than what Winform/Socket already accomplished, while in the meantime missed out entirely on the mobile market.
Those who busy themselves learning WCF/WPF will find themselves all of a sudden now needing to program yet-another-new-API "WinRT"
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"Not estimating (or planning) the work or tasks".
Working without planning will lead to failure.
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This all seems a little pithy. Where are:
1. Not knowing how to actually architect and code. Maybe a little obvious but I think we've all seen code that shows the dev just doesn't get it.
2. Not knowing how to write good code. He mentioned Agile practices (which I will not get into a debate on here), but not SOLID. Poor Uncle Bob!
3. Not testing. No unit tests, integration tests, performance tests.
4. Not understanding what the software you're writing is actually meant to do. This, to me, is the 2nd biggest reason a dev is a bad dev (after #1: Being a bad dev). Once you understand programming it's a doddle, but being a good programmer means understanding what the app actually is meant to do (not what it does) which enables you to make decisions that focus on the app's experience, not on what makes you, the dev, happy that day.
Ugh. I could go on. (though I already have, I guess...)
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Maybe someone here should write an article on that. That article (or series) would get my ((5!)!) (= 6.6895029134491270575881180540904e+198)
Bob Dole The internet is a great way to get on the net.
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The statisticians behind the Popularity of Programming Languages (PYPL) index have named C# the language of the year for 2012. Their data shows that C# popularity grew by 2.3 percent in 2012, more than any other programming language during the same period. What accounts for the growth of C# in 2012? Well, the launch of Windows 8 has probably played a role — C# remains the dominant language of third-party application development on Windows devices. But we think there’s more to it than that. Between Windows, iOS and Android, your C# code can run on over 2.2 billion devices.
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https://store.xamarin.com/[^]
If I was selling copies for android at $399 each and for ios at $399 each I would also be saying the same thing.
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My thoughts exactly.
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I'd rather stick with Android development using Eclipse and Java, can't beat the price of FREE I've checked out Xamarin and will not fork over $399-$999 for it, sorry.
"I've seen more information on a frickin' sticky note!" - Dave Kreskowiak
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