Charles Petzold resigns from MS
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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
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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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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
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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
