August 2005 Entries
Infoworld doesn’t have much more than what’s in the abstracts themselves (nice to see the punching up worked), but I did particuarly like the “hail” part. I sort of have images of Roman legionaires marching into the PDC bearing VB banners… At least we’ll be a long way from the Ides of March…
Tag: PDC05
Yes, Jeff, yes indeed… That’s a pretty cool idea, isn’t it? I mean, I’m just sayin’…
(This was an ironic thing to show up in my aggregator given the demo that I’m working on today for the PDC. Assuming the demo comes together the way it should, you’ll see why in LA…)
Tag: PDC05
Something random the other day make me think of an old email I’ve kept stuck in the archive folder, and I thought people might find it amusing. Many years ago, a coworker sent around an entirely tongue-in-cheek email on “How to be a PM” in which he covered the many underhanded ways that a Program Manager could get a developer to do their bidding (not surprisingly, the author was a PM). So I crafted a response on how, as a developer, to deal with the underhanded tricks that PMs can play. Here it is for your enjoyment…
(Obligitory caveat: Remember, this is just a humor piece....
Despite my name making an appearance in the session title (it appears to be gone now), several people have observed that our current session abstract for our PDC05 talk is a bit, uh, bland, especially when compared to some of the other sessions. Here’s what we originally submitted:
Visual Basic is designed to be the most productive language for writing data-centric, solution-focused applications. Meet with the designers of VB and learn about upcoming language features that will improve developer productivity, including new features that enable optimized queries over objects, XML, and databases in a consistent way.
I proposed punching up the abstract...
As with last year, my recognition of my second anniversary of blogging is a bit belated. And, as with last year, it’s hard to believe where all the time has gone. The whole blogging phenomenon seems to have transitioned from adolescence to early adulthood and is rapidly growing up (as much as it ever can). Wonder what year three will bring?
Larry Osterman blogged yesterday about the funky name assigned to some new expansion pack that we’re shipping, which jogged my memory about a funny naming story that’s probably old enough to be repeatable. In fact, it’s been so long that the story may be incorrect or apocryphal, so take it all with a grain of salt…
Before I worked on Visual Basic, I spent most of my time working on Microsoft Access. In fact, I interned on Access about a year before it actually shipped its first version. The name of the project at the time was “Cirrus” and it had...