Many newsletteres I receive in my inbox go straight to the trash bin. Usually because there are too many images, useless articles about how great the publisher is and how the world will never be the same without them, depressing Letters from CEOs, and so on. You get the sense. We attempted a newsle...

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We are about to release the next major version of the PPJ Framework. It will be named PPJ Framework 2009. It will include a state-of-the-art RibbonBar component, a robust and comprehensive skinning engine, and native LINQ support for dynamic arrays (SalArray class) and our Table Window con...

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Different people have different opinions. This is especially but not exclusively true when it comes to commenting source code. Some say that source code without comments is like a complex machine without manual (who reads manuals anyway, but that's a different story...). Others don't care about comm...

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I hate sales and marketing. I'm a technical guy. I like writing software and the certainty that an algorithm will work as designed until the end of time, or someone else introduces a bug... Fuzzy stuff doesn't sit well with me. For us "technical guys" if a particular feature doesn't work, well... i...

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Albert Einstein once said “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results”. Some say that this is just the definition of denial or stupidity which may evolve into insanity. Denial and stupidity (and sometimes insanity) can be permanent or temp...

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