An Excerpt from the book-THE noon bell was about to ring, the one glorious spring note of thatinexorable “Gym” bell that ruled the school with its iron tongue. For atnoon, on the first liberating stroke, the long winter term died and theEaster vacation became a fact.Inside Memorial Hall the impatient classes stirred nervously, countingoff the minutes, sitting gingerly on the seat-edges for fear ofwrinkling the carefully pressed suits or shifting solicitously thesharpened trousers in peril of a bagging at the knees. Heavens! howinterminable the hour was, sitting there in a planked shirt and afashion-high collar–and what a recitation! Would Easter ever begin,that long-coveted vacation when the growing boy, according to theory,goes home to rest from the fatiguing draining of his brain, but inreality returns exhausted by dinners, dances, and theaters, with perhapsa little touch of the measles to exchange with his neighbors. Even themasters droned through the perfunctory e (more…)

CODE Magazine – the Leading Independent Magazine for .NET Developers. This issue features articles on programming Web 2.0 in addition to general .NET articles.Table of Contents:*) Yes, We Can! 2009 Will Be Great!*) Successful Software Development*) SharePoint Applied: SharePoint 2007 with WCF and Silverlight*) Dances with Workflows (One Newbie’s Journey)*) Silverlight Enabled Live Search*) Building Domain Specific Languages in C#, Part 2*) Programming Twittering with Visual Basic*) Building Polished UIs with Expression Blend – Part 1*) Develop Provider-based Features for Your Applications*) The Zen of Inversion of Control*) Heard on .NET Rocks! Oslo Is Love with Chris Sells*) Ask the Doc Detective*) ThoughtWorking: Why The Next Five Years Will Be About LanguagesFor more information, visit www.codemag.com

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CODE Magazine – the Leading Independent Magazine for .NET Developers. This issue features various articles around Web 2.0 development, as well as other .NET articles.Table of Contents:*) Yes, We Can! 2009 Will Be Great!*) Successful Software Development*) SharePoint Applied: SharePoint 2007 with WCF and Silverlight*) Dances with Workflows (One Newbie’s Journey)*) Silverlight Enabled Live Search*) Building Domain Specific Languages in C#, Part 2*) Programming Twittering with Visual Basic*) Building Polished UIs with Expression Blend – Part 1*) Develop Provider-based Features for Your Applications*) The Zen of Inversion of Control*) Heard on .NET Rocks! Oslo Is Love with Chris Sells*) Ask the Doc Detective*) ThoughtWorking: Why The Next Five Years Will Be About LanguagesFor more information, visit www.codemag.com

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