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Writing maintainable code is hard. It must be understandable, testable and readable. Any one of these can be tricky, and together they seem pretty daunting. Thankfully, Michael Williamson makes it look easy to become a code craftsman. via Writing Maintainable Code.

WinRT isn’t another abstraction layer; it resides directly on top of the kernel just like the Win32 API. This marks the first major break in the core of Windows since Win32 was introduced in 1993 with Windows NT. WinRT represents a new application execution environment with semantics that are very different than Win32. God save [...]

The following are the original, unedited contributions for the book 97 Things Every Software Architect Should Know’, which is available at O’Reilly Media , Amazon.com and your local book stores. via 97 Things Every Software Architect Should Know – The Book – Softarch 97Things.

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