Charles Petzold resigns from MS
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My goal was 50-100 pages/day so you can see how long it took.
Everyone has a photographic memory; some just don't have film. Steven Wright
Mike Hankey wrote:
My goal was 50-100 pages/day
I'm impressed and inspired. 50-100 pages a day is a great goal. Also, I'm impressed that you know that you must set a goal otherwise we all just slip into not doing the task. I'm also inspired to try to read 50 pages of my tech book (Programming ASP.NET Core, Programming ASP.NET Core [^] ) per day. It's shorter so it'll take far less time.
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Mike Hankey wrote:
My goal was 50-100 pages/day
I'm impressed and inspired. 50-100 pages a day is a great goal. Also, I'm impressed that you know that you must set a goal otherwise we all just slip into not doing the task. I'm also inspired to try to read 50 pages of my tech book (Programming ASP.NET Core, Programming ASP.NET Core [^] ) per day. It's shorter so it'll take far less time.
Since I retired, several years ago now I set 3 goals that I want to accomplish every day. Not just programming, I'm avid outdoorsman but it's too hot in the summer here in Florida to hike. A lot of people that slow down after retirement and sit in front of the idiot box die within a year, those that stay active last a little longer. So far I'm still looking at the green side!
Everyone has a photographic memory; some just don't have film. Steven Wright
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From his FB post: "Effective today, I have resigned my employment at Microsoft, concluding an engaging and delightful 4½ years as part of the Xamarin documentation team. I will miss my co-workers immensely, and I hope to keep in touch with them on Facebook. Simultaneously, I am retiring from my 34-year career of writing, speaking, and thinking about programming and APIs. This career has taken me from assembly language MS-DOS utilities in the back pages of "PC Magazine"; to many years of C, C++, and C# Windows code in books and in articles in "MSJ" and "MSDN Magazine"; to cross-platform mobile development in C#. It's been a wonderful journey that I hope has benefited the developer community as much as it has been personally rewarding to me. I am making these decisions so that I can shift my full attention to a long-term project to write several books on various milestones in the historical foundations of computing, of which "The Annotated Turing" was the first and "Computer of the Tides" will (I hope) be the second. And who knows? Perhaps my best and most enduring work is yet to come!" /ravi
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I learned to program Windows with his Programming Windows 3.0 book. Unfortunately, I wasn't so impressed with many of his later books. (To the point where I recommended against his early .NET books. Perhaps they improved after .NET 2.0.)
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Steven Sinofsky is the real person that started the Microsoft decline, but Balmer was the guy that put him in charge and took too long before firing him.
Thanks for the input :). I still remember Balmer bragging that Windows 8 could run HTML 5 natively. Tell be again why I need an OS and not just a browser. That is Chrome.
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I learned to program Windows with his Programming Windows 3.0 book. Unfortunately, I wasn't so impressed with many of his later books. (To the point where I recommended against his early .NET books. Perhaps they improved after .NET 2.0.)
I also was disappointed with his .NET books, Joe
«... thank the gods that they have made you superior to those events which they have not placed within your own control, rendered you accountable for that only which is within you own control For what, then, have they made you responsible? For that which is alone in your own power—a right use of things as they appear.» Discourses of Epictetus Book I:12
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Steven Sinofsky is the real person that started the Microsoft decline, but Balmer was the guy that put him in charge and took too long before firing him.
re Sinofsky and Ballmer: I would rather fault the asylum administration for hiring insane psychiatrists, and for confusing clients with inmates :wtf:
«... thank the gods that they have made you superior to those events which they have not placed within your own control, rendered you accountable for that only which is within you own control For what, then, have they made you responsible? For that which is alone in your own power—a right use of things as they appear.» Discourses of Epictetus Book I:12
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While you're waiting on his next book, try his, The Annotated Turing: A Guided Tour Through Alan Turing's Historic Paper on Computability and the Turing Machine[^] I'm no mathematician, but I found that it stimulated a lot of thoughts and was extremely interesting. It made me think about math and computing in ways that nothing else has.
The Essential Turing: Seminal Writings in Computing, Logic, Philosophy, Artificial Intelligence, and Artificial Life: Plus The Secrets of Enigma edited by Jack Copeland You can find a downloadable pdf on several academic sites. Paperback: 622 pages Publisher: Clarendon Press; 1 edition (November 18, 2004) Language: English ISBN-10: 0198250800 ISBN-13: 978-0198250807 is also good
«... thank the gods that they have made you superior to those events which they have not placed within your own control, rendered you accountable for that only which is within you own control For what, then, have they made you responsible? For that which is alone in your own power—a right use of things as they appear.» Discourses of Epictetus Book I:12
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The Essential Turing: Seminal Writings in Computing, Logic, Philosophy, Artificial Intelligence, and Artificial Life: Plus The Secrets of Enigma edited by Jack Copeland You can find a downloadable pdf on several academic sites. Paperback: 622 pages Publisher: Clarendon Press; 1 edition (November 18, 2004) Language: English ISBN-10: 0198250800 ISBN-13: 978-0198250807 is also good
«... thank the gods that they have made you superior to those events which they have not placed within your own control, rendered you accountable for that only which is within you own control For what, then, have they made you responsible? For that which is alone in your own power—a right use of things as they appear.» Discourses of Epictetus Book I:12
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Since I retired, several years ago now I set 3 goals that I want to accomplish every day. Not just programming, I'm avid outdoorsman but it's too hot in the summer here in Florida to hike. A lot of people that slow down after retirement and sit in front of the idiot box die within a year, those that stay active last a little longer. So far I'm still looking at the green side!
Everyone has a photographic memory; some just don't have film. Steven Wright
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From his FB post: "Effective today, I have resigned my employment at Microsoft, concluding an engaging and delightful 4½ years as part of the Xamarin documentation team. I will miss my co-workers immensely, and I hope to keep in touch with them on Facebook. Simultaneously, I am retiring from my 34-year career of writing, speaking, and thinking about programming and APIs. This career has taken me from assembly language MS-DOS utilities in the back pages of "PC Magazine"; to many years of C, C++, and C# Windows code in books and in articles in "MSJ" and "MSDN Magazine"; to cross-platform mobile development in C#. It's been a wonderful journey that I hope has benefited the developer community as much as it has been personally rewarding to me. I am making these decisions so that I can shift my full attention to a long-term project to write several books on various milestones in the historical foundations of computing, of which "The Annotated Turing" was the first and "Computer of the Tides" will (I hope) be the second. And who knows? Perhaps my best and most enduring work is yet to come!" /ravi
My new year resolution: 2048 x 1536 Home | Articles | My .NET bits | Freeware ravib(at)ravib(dot)com
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From his FB post: "Effective today, I have resigned my employment at Microsoft, concluding an engaging and delightful 4½ years as part of the Xamarin documentation team. I will miss my co-workers immensely, and I hope to keep in touch with them on Facebook. Simultaneously, I am retiring from my 34-year career of writing, speaking, and thinking about programming and APIs. This career has taken me from assembly language MS-DOS utilities in the back pages of "PC Magazine"; to many years of C, C++, and C# Windows code in books and in articles in "MSJ" and "MSDN Magazine"; to cross-platform mobile development in C#. It's been a wonderful journey that I hope has benefited the developer community as much as it has been personally rewarding to me. I am making these decisions so that I can shift my full attention to a long-term project to write several books on various milestones in the historical foundations of computing, of which "The Annotated Turing" was the first and "Computer of the Tides" will (I hope) be the second. And who knows? Perhaps my best and most enduring work is yet to come!" /ravi
My new year resolution: 2048 x 1536 Home | Articles | My .NET bits | Freeware ravib(at)ravib(dot)com
Wow! In some weird way, this sounds like the end of an era, to me. Wish him the best. :java:
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From his FB post: "Effective today, I have resigned my employment at Microsoft, concluding an engaging and delightful 4½ years as part of the Xamarin documentation team. I will miss my co-workers immensely, and I hope to keep in touch with them on Facebook. Simultaneously, I am retiring from my 34-year career of writing, speaking, and thinking about programming and APIs. This career has taken me from assembly language MS-DOS utilities in the back pages of "PC Magazine"; to many years of C, C++, and C# Windows code in books and in articles in "MSJ" and "MSDN Magazine"; to cross-platform mobile development in C#. It's been a wonderful journey that I hope has benefited the developer community as much as it has been personally rewarding to me. I am making these decisions so that I can shift my full attention to a long-term project to write several books on various milestones in the historical foundations of computing, of which "The Annotated Turing" was the first and "Computer of the Tides" will (I hope) be the second. And who knows? Perhaps my best and most enduring work is yet to come!" /ravi
My new year resolution: 2048 x 1536 Home | Articles | My .NET bits | Freeware ravib(at)ravib(dot)com
Somewhere around here is the Petzold C for Windows book. Back in the 3.0 / 3.1 days. Thanks a ton Chuck. :thumbsup:
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I also was disappointed with his .NET books, Joe
«... thank the gods that they have made you superior to those events which they have not placed within your own control, rendered you accountable for that only which is within you own control For what, then, have they made you responsible? For that which is alone in your own power—a right use of things as they appear.» Discourses of Epictetus Book I:12
I agree with this too. He often got into the weeds with all that graphics programming stuff in the .NET books. They weren't like Programming Windows 3.0 where he just set out the details of Windows programming and explained everything so clearly. I really enjoyed his early stuff and his book, Code: The Hidden Language of Computers.
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Somewhere around here is the Petzold C for Windows book. Back in the 3.0 / 3.1 days. Thanks a ton Chuck. :thumbsup:
Yep, that's what made me choose between Mac and Windows in 1994! I literally had 2 sets of manuals in front of me: The Apple Developer's Toolkit and Programming Windows with Visual C++, and decided to go with Windows after reading portions of both. Never looked back, although I'd be willing to embrace iOS after I master Android. /ravi
My new year resolution: 2048 x 1536 Home | Articles | My .NET bits | Freeware ravib(at)ravib(dot)com
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From his FB post: "Effective today, I have resigned my employment at Microsoft, concluding an engaging and delightful 4½ years as part of the Xamarin documentation team. I will miss my co-workers immensely, and I hope to keep in touch with them on Facebook. Simultaneously, I am retiring from my 34-year career of writing, speaking, and thinking about programming and APIs. This career has taken me from assembly language MS-DOS utilities in the back pages of "PC Magazine"; to many years of C, C++, and C# Windows code in books and in articles in "MSJ" and "MSDN Magazine"; to cross-platform mobile development in C#. It's been a wonderful journey that I hope has benefited the developer community as much as it has been personally rewarding to me. I am making these decisions so that I can shift my full attention to a long-term project to write several books on various milestones in the historical foundations of computing, of which "The Annotated Turing" was the first and "Computer of the Tides" will (I hope) be the second. And who knows? Perhaps my best and most enduring work is yet to come!" /ravi
My new year resolution: 2048 x 1536 Home | Articles | My .NET bits | Freeware ravib(at)ravib(dot)com
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From his FB post: "Effective today, I have resigned my employment at Microsoft, concluding an engaging and delightful 4½ years as part of the Xamarin documentation team. I will miss my co-workers immensely, and I hope to keep in touch with them on Facebook. Simultaneously, I am retiring from my 34-year career of writing, speaking, and thinking about programming and APIs. This career has taken me from assembly language MS-DOS utilities in the back pages of "PC Magazine"; to many years of C, C++, and C# Windows code in books and in articles in "MSJ" and "MSDN Magazine"; to cross-platform mobile development in C#. It's been a wonderful journey that I hope has benefited the developer community as much as it has been personally rewarding to me. I am making these decisions so that I can shift my full attention to a long-term project to write several books on various milestones in the historical foundations of computing, of which "The Annotated Turing" was the first and "Computer of the Tides" will (I hope) be the second. And who knows? Perhaps my best and most enduring work is yet to come!" /ravi
My new year resolution: 2048 x 1536 Home | Articles | My .NET bits | Freeware ravib(at)ravib(dot)com
Never heard of 'em...
The best way to improve Windows is run it on a Mac. The best way to bring a Mac to its knees is to run Windows on it. ~ my brother Jeff
