The "I didn’t know it could do that" WPF Post
At the end of my last co-op term, I was in a good position. I was a pro at WPF — I’d spent 4 solid months working on a WPF application in the financial sector, and was probably the best WPF developer on the team — even though the others on the team had [...]
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The Trouble with WPF
I’ve been working with WPF quite a lot lately, in no small part because I’m now on an internship with the WPF team at Microsoft. This post is not about the work, though — it’s been great — but rather, the one glaring flaw that I keep seeing, over and over, with WPF. Before [...]
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Microsoft == Royalty?
With a new term comes a new co-op job, and for me, that’s Microsoft. After receiving offers from a number of companies (as the previous post can attest), I decided that my best course of action was to fly halfway across the continent to live in what is proving to be a very grey and [...]
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The Interview Stats are In
Talk to any co-op at Waterloo and they’ll tell you that the best, and the worst, thing about Waterloo is co-op. Sure, you get the opportunity to work with some of the best companies around (anywhere), and if you’re lucky (or in Engineering) you can graduate without any debt — but it can be quite [...]
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Nicholas on Channel 9!