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Academia meets Industry

Doctors (not the real kind) are in fashion. I've always been impressed by the success story of Adam Kolawa, Parasoft co-founder and CEO, who “came to the United States from Poland to pursue his Ph.D. In 1987, he and a group of fellow graduate students founded Parasoft to create value-added products that could significantly improve the…

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Murphy's Laws of Software Development

Murphy's First Law of Software Development: Every Software Engineer continues his state of chatting or forwarding  mails unless he is assigned work by manager. Murphy's Second Law of Software Development: The rate of change in the software is directly proportional to the payment received from client and takes place at the quick rate as when…

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International Association of Software Architects

Michele Leroux Bustamante mentioned IASA in May 2005 SoCal tech summit in her session “Deploying, Versioning and Mastering the Offline Experience for Smart Clients”. An emerging resource for serious enterprise architecture work. Following is the mission statement from their website. “The International Association of Software Architects (IASA) is a non-profit organization dedicated to the advancement and sharing…

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Rambling Quotes...

Google personalized page has loads of goodies...eHow wiki, QOD etc...some of instant favourites I recently read... We work to become, not to acquire."Surround yourself with people who take their work seriously, but not themselves, those who work hard and play hard."- Colin Powell It may be that the old astrologers had the truth exactly reversed, when they believed…

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Thunderbird vs. SharpReader

I started using Thunderbird several months ago but it didn't work out. There were lots of features missing (mark all as read, OPML built-in, read new feeds at one place to name a few) so I had to come back to SharpReader, a fine product. I found Thunderbird slow, less-featured and not very interactive, something you…

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Hurry! Participate in Beta Exam 71-528

Hurry folks....now its time to show off the hours of presentations and training you had on master pages, themes, partial classes et al .... Participate in Free Beta Exam 71-528: TS: Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0-Web-based Client Development Check your MCP Flash newsletter for details! Registration begins: October 17, 2005 Beta exam period runs: November 7,…

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C# 3.0 going fancy

C# 3.0, as announced in PDC is coming with lots of goodies for instance extension methods, lambda expressions, type inference, anonymous types and the .NET Language Integrated Query. Some important links: C# Future Versions home C# 3.0 Language Enhancements in action C# 3.0 LINQ in action C# 3.0 Language Specification

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