Rod Paddock is the editor of CODE Magazine. Rod has been a software developer for more than 10 years and has worked with tools like Visual Studio .NET SQL Server, Visual Basic, Visual FoxPro, Delphi and numerous others.
Rod is president of Dash Point Software, Inc. Dash Point is an award winning software development firm that specializes in developing applications for small to large businesses. Dash Point has delivered applications for numerous corporations like: Six Flags, First Premier Bank, Intel, Microsoft and the US Coast Guard.

Articles Authored

• Is It Time for a Change?
• Decades of Thanks
• Part 4: The Tenets of UAT
• Part 3: Merrily We Roll Along
• Act II
• Act 1: Into the Great Unknown
• Ending Malaise
• Editorial
• Lessons Learned from a Second Trip Around the Block
• Choices, Choices, Choices
• An Important Milestone
• Processing Large Datasets Using C# and SQL Server Table Data Types
• Making Informed Decisions
• Shokunin
• The Art of Making Art
• Editorial
• Creative Fear
• Editorial
• The Curious Coder
• Editorial
• Editorial
• Editorial
• Editorial
• Musings of a Wandering Developer
• The Times, They are a-Changin'
• Editorial
• Editorial
• Editorial
• Editorial
• Twenty Years as a Software Engineer
• Curiosity-Driven Development
• Codes of Conduct
• Your Future is Our Responsibility
• Scripts for All Reasons
• Software Development and Filmmaking Parallels
• The Cloud Networking Effect
• Looking Into the Future
• You Get What You Pay For
• Don’t Be a Veruca Salt
• The Times they are A-changin!
• So Many Choices
• Seeking Scale
• On Influence
• Not Found in a College Course Curriculum
• On Change
• Introduction to Ruby on Rails
• On Conferences
• Always Be Learning
• We Are Customer Service!
• Show Me the Money and Other Sundry Stories
• So You Want to Be a Consultant: Risk Management
• So You Want to Be a Consultant?
• CODE Magazine 10 Years Later
• Using the Amazon Web Service SDK for .NET
• Small Building Blocks
• Can a Fish Use a Bicycle?
• Post Mortem Web Project
• Not a Spectator Sport
• Smaller Is Better
• 10,000 Hours to Graceland
• Open Source Software
• Programming Twittering with Visual Basic
• Roundtables vs. Lunch Counters
• Back to Basics
• Languages Re-Unleashed
• Unlearn
• Boy Scouts, Dungeons and Dragons, and Community
• Reflections on 2007
• Comparing VFP String Performance to .NET String Performance
• It’s an Agile World
• The Age of Specialists and Generalists
• Creating Visual Studio Add-Ins
• Re-Igniting Creativity
• Seeing the Silverlight
• The House that Fox Built
• Exploring Tablet PC Application Deployment
• Chapter 10
• Process Introspection
• Integrating .NET Code and SQL Server Reporting Services
• Surfs Up!
• I Have a Dream
• Axes and Imagination
• Wither T-SQL
• RAD in the Time of Agile Development
• Developers Toolkit
• The Modern World of Mobility
• .Finalize(): Reenergize
• Tragedy and a Call to Action
• Security Is Job One!
• The Times they Are a Changin'
• VB Paradigm Shift
• Grokking .NET
• It's a Blog World
• Best Practices
• Visual FoxPro 9 IDE Enhancements
• What Makes an Effective Software Manager?
• Creating Custom Data Extensions for SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services
• CoDe Magazine Philosophy
• So Many Choices, So Little Time
• Never Give Up
• Creating User-Defined Data Types in Yukon
• .NET Gripes and XAML Worries
• Using MySQL 4.0 with .NET
• Hearts and Minds
• Toys, Toys, Toys
• State of .NET Development
• Using the Microsoft Visual Studio Tools for the Microsoft Office System
• Continuing Education
• It's the Concept... (Editorial)
• We Are Our Environment (Editorial)
• Looking Forward and Back (Editorial)
• The Importance of Friends
• The Silver Bullet is Found
• All for a Box of Onions
• Riding new technology waves
• A Software "Pre-mortem"
• Code Smells Are Universal

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