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Back to the Future

Developers: don't just mope and cope about the economic downturn, start doing some fun, creative programming.

The Road Ahead

The current economic turmoil creates an entirely new range of possibilities for developers who "get it" and acquire the knowledge and skills that are relevant for the road ahead.

Azure Like It

Microsoft's cloud push is not just a thin veneer over the company's Software as a Service (SaaS) offerings.

Virtues and Vices

The cleanest wins for virtualization come not in production infrastructure, but in development platforms.

Feet in the Clouds

The focus of PDC 2008 has been to get developers excited about "cloud-computing" as much as the new Windows 7.

Prepare for PDC

PDC 7, better known as PDC2008, marks a return to center stage for the Windows client operating system.

Browser Mania

With Chrome, Google has offered a very serious alternative to Microsoft’s approach to rich Internet applications.

Silverlight Stumbles

Silverlight 2 at the 2008 Beijing Olympics and Democratic National Convention.

Better Late Than Never!

SQL Server 2008 is now better than ever.

Can Silverlight Compete?

Microsoft and NBC are betting very big on using Silverlight to change -- permanently -- the way TV broadcasting is done.

Developer Education

For anyone who wants to get the most out of Visual Studio 2008, one of the best sources has been Microsoft developer/evangelist Zain Naboulsi's "Is This Thing On?" .NET developers’ blog and webcasts.

Get Firebugged? Yes!

Whether you want to tune up a Web site you built yourself or dive into the techniques used to build someone else’s site, Firebug lets you peer under the covers to understand how the site works.

Don't Drop This Thing!

Omar Al Zabir is not just a coder, but a software architect, designer, developer and entrepreneur executing major projects.

Moving Mountains

Anders Hejlsberg, a key .NET creator

Know Your Neighborhood

How much do developers really know about the operating systems their code runs on?