Name: Nick Schweitzer
Dateline: Wauwatosa, Wisconsin
Weblog: www.nickschweitzer.net [RSS]
Articles: 15
First Published: Tuesday, March 14, 2006
Last Published: Friday, January 18, 2008
Nick Schweitzer is a software consultant in the Milwaukee area. In his spare time he is an amatuer triathlete, political pundit, and is a recovering geek. He maintains two blogs: The World According to Nick and The Coding Monkey.Currently listing articles 15-1:
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Book Review: Programming WPF, 2nd Edition by Chris Sells and Ian Griffiths — Programming WPF is the perfect book to jump start developers interested in using the latest GUI technology for building Windows applications.
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Book Review: Software Estimation - Demystifying the Black Art by Steve McConnell— How to create a good estimate without using complicated formulas or software packages. And without stirring in the eye of newt and toe of frog.
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Book Review: Bait and Switch - The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream by Barbara Ehrenreich— A freelance writer infiltrates the ranks of the white-collar unemployed.
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Book Review: The Trouble with Physics by Lee Smolin— Has science lost its way? What is the nature of the universe, and more importantly, how do we go about discovering it?
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TV Review: My Boys— As the old saying goes, everything that's old is new again, and that's the case with the new TBS sitcom My Boys.
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TV Review: Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip - "Nevada Day Parts I & II"— The show takes on a heated political topic when some of the cast are at the mercy of a small town judge in Nevada.
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Book Review: Not Even Wrong by Peter Woit— Sometimes an idea is so wrong, it can't even be proven false, providing nothing to be learned. When this happens, it's not even wrong.
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TV Review: Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip— What do you get when you cross Sports Night with Saturday Night Live?
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Book Review: XAML in a Nutshell by Lori A. MacVittie— XAML is a brand new way of creating user interfaces for Windows, and XAML in a Nutshell provides many of the details you need.
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Book Review: The Constitution in Exile by Andrew P. Napolitano— The Department of Education, federal gun-free school zones, national drinking ages: where are these things defined in the US Constitution?
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Book Review: Visual Basic 2005 in a Nutshell by Tim Patrick, et al.— Visual Basic 2005 in a Nutshell continues the fine lineage of O'Reilly Nutshell books.
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Book Review: Visual Basic 2005 Jumpstart by Wei-Meng Lee— Switching from Visual Basic 6 to Visual Basic .NET is a tough decision; you'll need to know what it takes, and whether it's worth it.
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Book Review: C# Cookbook, 2nd Edition by Jay Hilyard and Stephen Teilhet— A great reference for new and intermediate programmers who don’t know where to start looking to find out what they need.
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Book Review: Information Dashboard Design by Stephen Few— Dashboards are becoming a popular addition to many data warehousing applications.
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TV Review: Battlestar Galactica, "Lay Down Your Burdens Pt. 2"— Fast forwarding through the plot: that's what the writers did with the season finale of Battlestar Galactica.
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