Rod Paddock
Chief Editor, CODE Magazine
Rod Paddock founded Dash Point Software, Inc. in 2001 to develop high-quality custom software solutions. With 30+ years of experience, Rod's current and past clients include: Six Flags, First Premier Bank, Microsoft, Calamos Investments, The US Coast Guard, and US Navy. Along with developing software, Rod is a well-known author and conference speaker. Since 1995, Rod has given talks, training sessions, and keynotes in the US, Canada, and Europe. Rod has been Editor-in-Chief of CODE Magazine since 2001.
Articles Authored
- .Finalize(): Reenergize
- .NET Core: The WOW Factor
- .NET Gripes and XAML Worries
- 10,000 Hours to Graceland
- A Software "Pre-mortem"
- Act 1: Into the Great Unknown
- Act II
- All for a Box of Onions
- Always Be Learning
- An Important Milestone
- Axes and Imagination
- Back to Basics
- Best Practices
- Boy Scouts, Dungeons and Dragons, and Community
- Can a Fish Use a Bicycle?
- Chapter 10
- Choices, Choices, Choices
- CODE Magazine 10 Years Later
- CoDe Magazine Philosophy
- Code Smells Are Universal
- Codes of Conduct
- Comparing VFP String Performance to .NET String Performance
- Continuing Education
- Creating Custom Data Extensions for SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services
- Creating User-Defined Data Types in Yukon
- Creating Visual Studio Add-Ins
- Creative Fear
- Curiosity-Driven Development
- Decades of Thanks
- Developers Toolkit
- Don’t Be a Veruca Salt
- Editorial
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- Ending Malaise
- Exploring Tablet PC Application Deployment
- Grokking .NET
- Hearts and Minds
- I Have a Dream
- Integrating .NET Code and SQL Server Reporting Services
- Introduction to Ruby on Rails
- Is It Time for a Change?
- It’s an Agile World
- It's a Blog World
- It's the Concept... (Editorial)
- Languages Re-Unleashed
- Lessons Learned from a Second Trip Around the Block
- Looking Forward and Back (Editorial)
- Looking Into the Future
- Making Informed Decisions
- Musings of a Wandering Developer
- Never Give Up
- Not a Spectator Sport
- Not Found in a College Course Curriculum
- On Change
- On Conferences
- On Influence
- Open Source Software
- Part 3: Merrily We Roll Along
- Part 4: The Tenets of UAT
- Post Mortem Web Project
- Process Introspection
- Processing Large Datasets Using C# and SQL Server Table Data Types
- Programming Twittering with Visual Basic
- RAD in the Time of Agile Development
- Reflections on 2007
- Re-Igniting Creativity
- Riding new technology waves
- Rodman Visits the World of FX on Hulu’s “Devs”
- Roundtables vs. Lunch Counters
- Scripts for All Reasons
- Security Is Job One!
- Seeing the Silverlight
- Seeking Scale
- Shokunin
- Show Me the Money and Other Sundry Stories
- Small Building Blocks
- Smaller Is Better
- So Many Choices
- So Many Choices, So Little Time
- So You Want to Be a Consultant: Risk Management
- So You Want to Be a Consultant?
- Software Development and Filmmaking Parallels
- State of .NET Development
- Surfs Up!
- The Age of Specialists and Generalists
- The Art of Making Art
- The Cloud Networking Effect
- The Curious Coder
- The House that Fox Built
- The Importance of Community
- The Importance of Friends
- The Joy of Being a Beginner
- The Modern World of Mobility
- The New Normal
- The Silver Bullet is Found
- The Times they Are a Changin'
- The Times they are A-changin!
- The Times, They are a-Changin'
- Theory Meets Reality
- Toys, Toys, Toys
- Tragedy and a Call to Action
- Twenty Years as a Software Engineer
- Unlearn
- Using MySQL 4.0 with .NET
- Using the Amazon Web Service SDK for .NET
- Using the Microsoft Visual Studio Tools for the Microsoft Office System
- VB Paradigm Shift
- Visual FoxPro 9 IDE Enhancements
- We Are Customer Service!
- We Are Our Environment (Editorial)
- What Makes an Effective Software Manager?
- Wither T-SQL
- You Get What You Pay For
- Your Future is Our Responsibility
Contact Information:
- Phone: 253-906-2342