* mailto:mcruikshank@vitalimages.com
* http://www.vitalimages.com
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I'm a Software Engineer at Vital Images, Inc. in Minnetonka, Minnesota with a Masters in Computer Science from the University of Minnesota and a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from Michigan State University.  I've been programming since 1981, when I was 8 - my first program was in BASIC on a TRS-80, and it printed prime numbers.

Books on my desk:
* Modern C++ Design / Alexandrescu
* Practical Software Metrics for Project Management and Process Improvement / Grady
* Facts and Fallacies of Software Engineering / Glass
* Programming Microsoft Visual C++ Fifth Edition / Kruglinski, Shepherd, Wingo
* GPU Gems 2 / Pharr
* Refactoring / Fowler
* Effective STL / Meyers
* Death March / Yourdon
* More Effective C++ / Meyers
* Effective C++ Second Edition / Meyers
* Design Patterns / Gamma, Helm, Johnson, Vlissides
* Win32 System Serives / Brain, Reeves (Borrowed)
* CMMI / Chrissis, Konrad, Shrum
* The C++ Standard Library / Josuttis
* Peopleware / De''''''Marco, Lister
* Applying UML and Patterns / Larman (Borrowed)
* Numerical Recipies in Pascal / Press, Flannery, Teukolsky, Vetterling
* XSLT 2nd Edition / Kay
* Managing the Software Process / Humphrey (Borrowed)

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These are some ideas kicking around in my head:

* CodePatterns

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