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Wednesday, July 09, 2014 View online Tips? Send 'em to Insider@codeproject.com   View online 09 July 2014 Advertisements Are you still writing database update scripts by hand? Then I give you a challenge: use SQL Compare to deploy your SQL Server changes for one week. It'll cost you nothing. After just one week of fast, zero error deployments, I think you'll see why 71% of the Fortune 100 use SQL Compare. Try it now All you need. Learn Dev and IT your way…videos, eBooks, more Learn SharePoint, SQL, Visual Studio, C#, MVC, Mobile, Cloud, and more with this comprehensive learning subscription. Learn your way with 5,700+ videos, 82,000+ pages of eBooks, labs, code, pre/post exams, filter and search. Get started Industry News Android's phone wiping fails to delete personal data "She's still dreaming of a man long forgiven but not forgotten" Source: CNet "Weaponized" exploit can steal sensitive user data on eBay, Tumblr, et al. Oh look: a Flash exploit. Must be a weekday ending in 'y' Source: Ars Technica Is Linux dead for the desktop? "Any headline which ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no." Source: Networkworld Wzor predicts demise of Windows 8, Windows 9 to arrive in the fall "New activation methods"? Sideways unhappy face! Source: Infoworld Microsoft warns of pending support deadlines for Windows 7, Office 2010 SP1, Windows Server 2003, and more The End is Nigh! (more or less. less actually) Source: ZDNet Need Excel Reporting? Use SpreadsheetGear to easily create richly-formatted Excel reports without Excel from any ASP.NET, Windows Forms, WPF or Silverlight application using spreadsheet technology built from the ground up for performance, scalability and reliability. Try it now! Developer News Seven things you should never code yourself "There is no new thing under the sun" Source: New Relic Do software developers really need degrees? "The weekend at the college didn't turn out like you planned. The things that pass for knowledge, I can't understand" Source: Simple Programmer 5 reasons why software bugs still plague us "Testing shows the presence, not the absence of bugs" Source: Infoworld Why Python makes a great first programming language "Python is more concerned with making it easy to write good programs than difficult to write bad ones." Source: ReadWrite Visual Studio Web Development Survey Let them know what you know Source: Visual Studio Blog Code Project Discussions - Your say! About Azure To the cloud? Source: CodeProject What do people here use for mocking up user interfaces? Never underestimate the power of pen on paper Source: CodeProject © 2014 The Code Project.  All rights reserved. This email was sent to vutunglampro@gmail.com. To stop receiving The Code Project Insider News click here. CodeProject 503-250 Ferrand Drive, Toronto Ontario, M3C 3G8 Canada +1 416-849-8900 x 100 Please do not reply directly to this email. It was sent from an unattended mailbox. For correspondence please use Insider@codeproject.com