I felt honored when the editors of MSDN Magazine asked me to write the {End Bracket} page for the February issue. This is the page where technical writers face the difficult challenge of writing 800 words of coherent prose without one line of programming code , and my attempt — under the title "Let My People Code" — has now appeared online here . Looking back over it, it seems as convoluted as an episode of Law & Order: SVU . It starts out in Hollywood in the 1920s and ends up with a plea for hand-coded XAML. In the process, you learn at least one thing you didn't know about me, which is that I'm a fan of screwball comedy, a genre of film that flourished in the mid 1930s to early 1940s. As examples of screwball comedy, I knew I'd mention It Happened One Night (1934) and Bringing Up Baby (1938) because everybody's seen these movies a hundred times and knows what they're like. I am actually not a big fan of It Happened One Night but I will look askance at anyone who denies Read More...