Daily News - How Microsoft dragged its development practices into the 21st century

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Thursday, August 07, 2014 View online Tips? Send 'em to Insider@codeproject.com   View online 07 August 2014 Advertisements "45 Database Performance Tips for Developers" Improve your application's database performance with 45 tips from SQL Server MVPs and industry experts. Polish your table indexes, love your ORMs, master efficient queries - and get your DBA to buy you a beer. Get the eBook here. Boldly Code With Us Calling all developers, software architects, engineers and designers: For the first time ever, Visual Studio Live! lands in Washington, D.C. this October for unbiased and cutting-edge training on the Microsoft platform. Click here for agenda, sessions, speaker line-up and more! Industry News Microsoft offers Chinese workers a free Windows Phone to quit What's the punishment if they stay? Source: Techcrunch The Surface damage is mounting at Microsoft "'Tis but a scratch" Source: ReadWrite Internet Explorer begins blocking out-of-date ActiveX controls ActiveX: the gift that keeps giving Source: IE blog Apple products removed from government procurement list in China At this rate, they might have to move all work back to abacuses (or abaci if you're a Latin scholar) Source: ZDNet More than two million people still pay AOL for internet access As the kids say these days: 0.o Source: Gizmodo Need Excel Controls for Windows Forms, WPF or Silverlight? Use SpreadsheetGear to add powerful, Excel-compatible viewing, editing, formatting, calculating, filtering, sorting, charting, printing and more to your applications with the easy-to-use WorkbookView controls. Try it now! Developer News When programming, you must name things And the other guy always uses the wrong naming conventions Source: Press Up How the web became our 'external brain,' and what it means for our kids I'd have to have an internal brain before I worry Source: Wired Rosetta arrives at a comet! "By being seldom seen, I could not stir, but like a comet I was wonder'd at." Source: Slate.com Are Python and Objective-C worth learning? "An investment in knowledge pays the best interest." Source: Dice How Microsoft dragged its development practices into the 21st century Kicking and screaming? Source: Ars Technica Code Project Discussions - Your say! More reason to mistrust photos "I reject your reality and substitute my own!" Source: CodeProject What next for CP? Time to give Chris et al more work! 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