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Readers weigh in on the question of whether U.S. schools are preparing students for software development jobs.

When you read about history, the stories are mostly about the people involved, and not as often about the tools and technologies people used. In software engineering, the stories about the people involved are known as “human factors” - and it is often the human factors in the life of a software project that make life interesting for software developers.

It’s a fact that men and women don’t think alike—remember this when designing software for the half of users that aren’t like you.

Being lazy in software development can be a good thing, but until the Microsoft .NET Framework 4, coders had to implement lazy behavior themselves. Dino Esposito shows how to use the new Lazy class to maximize your resources.

This article is describing a project that enables the VirtualDub software with a new dynamic cropping feature.

Writing software is hard, particularly when the schedules keep programmers “nose to the grindstone”; every so often, it’s important to take a breather and look around the world and discover what we can find-ironically, what we find can often help us write software better.Philosophy doesn’t just question the imponderables about the universe; sometimes it shows us the limitations of our own, programming-trained mind, and leaves us to question the approaches we take in building software for the rest of the human race.

iSafePDF is an open source software to sign, timestamp and encrypt PDF documents

The article describes some observations concerning changes in the infrastructure of tools used by programmers in everyday work. First of all, these changes are related to the release of Visual Studio 2010.

As your projects grow more complicated, you'll need a build system to keep track of build results? MSBuild is up to the task.