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Thursday, December 11, 2014 View online Tips? Send 'em to Insider@codeproject.com 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 Industry News BitTorrent opens alpha for Maelstrom, its new, distributed, Torrent-based web browser P2P FTW? Source: Techcrunch Microsoft, Google, others threaten to sue Adblock Plus creator "First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win." Source: Softpedia Google's Eric Schmidt: Don't fear the artificially intelligent future "Seasons don't fear the reaper. Nor do the wind, the sun, or the rain" Source: Wired Microsoft tells US: The world's servers are not yours for the taking Everyone knows tramping over people's privacy is the business of corporations, not government Source: Ars Technica Apple and IBM launch their business invasion with new iOS apps With these two cooperating, nothing could possible go wrong {/sarcasm} Source: The Verge Developer News Orion's lesson for IT: Test your systems, then test again (and again) Testing. That's what users are for. Source: IT World Why bad software succeeds "Only the good die young" Source: Press Up Using C# and Wix# to build Windows Installer packages Because the world needed another installer builder (no, seriously, it did) Source: InfoQ The Infamous Windows "Hello World" Program Mr. Petzold doesn't take the blame for your writer's cramp Source: Charles Petzold ReSharper 9 is Released along with dotTrace 6, dotCover 3, dotMemory 4.2 and dotPeek 1.3 Many dots. Much happy. Source: JetBrains Code Project Discussions - Your say! Self-directed learning "O this learning, what a thing it is!" Source: CodeProject Pet peeve Code formatting: the debate continues 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 Unsubscribe. 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