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If you have visited http://www.microsoft.com/msdn/ lately, no doubt you have noticed our weekly features by Dr. GUI, together with several other new voices at MSDN. These columns can be a relief from those technical articles you've been spilling your coffee on. They offer some strong opinions, some straight dope—and sometimes they can't help but be funny.
You know Dr. GUI. No need to introduce him to you. But did you know that he is now writing a weekly column exclusively for our MSDN Online Web site? If you haven't read these yet, or if you want to review them, here's your chance. Same practitioner, only more of him.
Dr. GUI on Components, COM, and ATL (Parts 1 through 4)
Performance Prescriptions for Microsoft Windows NT 5.0
Going Native with J/Direct
This weekly column by MSDN Online writer John Swenson covers a broad range of developer topics, with a special emphasis on providing developers with an overview of key Microsoft technologies. Topics in recent months have included XML, ZAW, Windows DNA, Dynamic HTML, and other interesting acronyms. Before joining MSDN Online in 1997, John spent seven years as a reporter covering Microsoft and other software companies for Windows Watcher newsletter, Information Week magazine, and a local newspaper in the Seattle area. John uses his journalism background to zero in on important answers for developers, addressing such pressing questions as "Why should I care about this new technology?"
Windows 98 Has Something for Everyone, Even Developers
ADSL Is Almost Ready for Primetime
Common Sense Writing and Publishing for the Web
The Human Problems of Web Publishing
Server Scriptlets: Using Script to Create COM Components
XML: A Better Way to Move Data Across the Web
Windows CE Tools Are Flooding Forth
The Distinction Is Fading Between Windows Applications and Web Applications
It's Not Just a .doc and .xls World Anymore
XML: One Hot Abbreviation, but What Does It Mean?
Ease Your Work with Cascading Style Sheets
Internet Explorer: Surfing's Only the Beginning
This weekly column by MSDN Online editor Norvin Leach looks at a range of developer issues from the small (micro/scope), to the large (macro/scope), and even the distant future (tele/scope). Since beginning the column in the fall of 1997, Norvin has written about everything from data access and encryption to legacy DOS apps and what's happening at MSDN Online. Along the way, he raises such provocative questions as "Is ActiveX Dead?" Before joining Microsoft in 1997, Norvin spent more than four years as a reporter and editor at PC Week covering development tools, operating systems, and yes, even Microsoft.
ActiveX Revisted
Observations on the HelpDesk Sample
Consolidation and Decompilation at the SD West Show
Cryptic Controls
Titanic Failures
Thinking the Unthinkable About DOS Apps
Three Questions About Java
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