"Anything worth learning cannot be taught" --Oscar Wilde

Generate a .lib from a DLL with Visual Studio | Code Retard

Oftentimes programmers have to deal with external third party DLLs that their software rely on to function.

Corner Office - On Will Wright's Team, Would You Be a Solvent, or the Glue?

Q. How do you give feedback to the people you manage? A. A lot of the people I've managed — artists, programmers, producers — they don't want to know just if they are doing a good job or not. They want to be pushed and challenged in their career.

Stockholm News: Pirate Party won seat in EU Parliament

With final results from 98% of the election districts it stands more than clear that the Pirate Party has won a seat in the EU Parliament. Other parties who have gained much voter support are the Greens and the Liberals.

Coding Horror: How to Motivate Programmers

The Real Pirate Bay - Umair Haque - HarvardBusiness.org

That's everything that's wrong with the economy in two sentences: the ongoing inability of today's leaders to deal with 21st century economics.

The iPhone Becomes a Web Server - ReadWriteWeb

When those Apple advertisements tout "there's an app for just about anything," they aren't kidding. The latest example? A new iPhone application which just debuted in Japan's App Store transforms the handheld into a full-blown web server.

Immersion Blog» Blog Archive » Scientology- the early years

The first incarnation of Scientology came apart in October 1950 with the sudden defections of many of his allies.

Coding Horror: The World's Largest MMORPG: You're Playing it Right Now

.. like it or not, you're participating in the world's largest MMORPG. Lurking is always free. Those that choose to go beyond lurking, to add some tiny bit of content to the web, do it because they find it enjoyable. On some level, they're having fun.

How to be a program manager - Joel on Software

Having a good program manager is one of the secret formulas to making really great software. And you probably don't have one on your team, because most teams don't.

Coding Horror: The One Thing Programmers and Musicians Have In Common

I adore music. I have a vast music collection and I love listening to music and exploring new bands and genres I haven't heard. But I have zero musical ability. So it's not really appropriate for me to comment on this.

Are You Creating Micromanagement Zombies?

Do you manage other programmers, in any capacity? Then take Kathy Sierra's quiz: 1. Do you pride yourself on being "on top of" the projects or your direct reports? Do you have a solid grasp of the details of every project?

Immersion Blog» Blog Archive » Doing it for charity

A Japanese company called Natural High, that makes "extreme" porn, has embarked on a quest to save poor African orphans, by sending a porn star and crew to make "anthropological documentary" porn of her having sex with various tribesmen.

91 Surefire Ways to Become an Even Greater Developer | Effectize

Since there are dozens of posts on becoming a better developer, but no single post with all the advice you need, perhaps, you'll find this short guide useful.

Weekly Review—By Genevieve Smith (Harper's Magazine)

The word "meh," defined as "an expression of indifference or boredom" was added to the Collins English Dictionary. Also... Prince, who wrote and performed the songs "International Lover," "Cream," and "Jack U Off," spoke out against gay marriage.

CodeProject: Asynchronous Method Invocation. Free source code and programming help

Overall, I will cover how to call methods asynchronously, how to pass parameters to such methods, and how to find out when a method completes execution. Finally, I will show the Command Pattern in use for simplifying some of the code.

Kung-Fu Talking Jesus and Bald Baby Buddha Buddy | F.A.T.

Can You Really Rent a Coder?

As professional programmers, I think we're all naturally inclined to see these sort of low-bid contract sites as cannibalizing and cheapening our craft. It's roughly analogous to the No-Spec movement for designers.

Coding: It's Just Writing

There is perhaps no greater single reference on the topic of writing than Strunk and White's The Elements of Style.

Scott Hanselman's Computer Zen - Professionalism, Programming, and Punditry and Success as a Metric

This is something I've struggled with as I've been blogging. I mean, it's just a blog. Look at my first post. Once while presenting in the Midwest a gentleman asked me a question along the lines of "how did you get so good?"

AKoff Music Composer

Recognizes polyphonic music from microphone (other Wave input or file) and converts it into Midi sequences. You can sing,...

James' Sandbox: ASP.NET Error: No suitable method found to override

If you have received this error "No suitable method found to override" while trying to execute your ASP.NET page, it could be one of the following:

Timeline and Risk: How to Piss Off Your Software Developers | Software by Rob

But getting back to the point: what's the one sentence that makes software developers angry? You might be thinking it's the insidious: "This bug is only reproducible on Opera v0.3 for the Commodore 64, but fix it anyway," or the always favorite

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