These are some of my favorite programming quotes:
- There are 10 kinds of people in this world….Those who understand binary and those who don’t. - Anonymous
- For a sucessful technology, honesty must take precedence over public relations for nature cannot be fooled. - Richard Feynman
- Before software can be reusable it first has to be usable. - Ralph Johnson
- Software and cathedrals are much the same - first we build them, then we pray. - Anonymous
- Computers are good at following instructions, but not at reading your mind. - Donald Knuth
- If debugging is the process of removing bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in. - Edsger W. Dijkstra
- Real Programmers don’t need comments—the code is obvious. - Anonymous
- program, n.: A magic spell cast over a computer allowing it to turn one’s input into error messages. tr.v. To engage in a pastime similar to banging one’s head against a wall, but with fewer opportunities for reward. - luc.aleaume.free.fr
- Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight. - Bill Gates
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Microsoft has released Service Pack 1 for Visual Studio 2008 and .NET 3.5. This update patches numerous bugs, improves performance, and even adds a few new features.
Visual Studio 2008 Updates
The improvements for Visual Studio 2008 include:
- Improved WPF designers
- SQL Server 2008 support
- ADO.NET Entity Designer
- Visual Basic and Visual C++ components and tools (including an MFC-based Office 2007 style ‘Ribbon’)
- Team Foundation Server (TFS) usability and performance improvements
- Richer JavaScript support, enhanced AJAX and data tools, and Web site deployment improvements
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