June 2006 Entries
I thought of this old post of mine today…
Sometimes a useless Microsoft story crosses my mind and I think “gee, that might be mildly amusing to post on my blog.” But the story’s small enough that I don’t really have a good hook, which means that it’s hard for me to justify posting it. Well, Adam’s given me a good enough hook to hang a few stories on:
One that I hadn’t thought of is the fact that I’ve been around long enough (14 years last week!) to be an and-1, with the alias paulv. The interesting thing, though, was that when I was an intern 15 years ago...
Back in April, I mentioned that we’re going to have a compiler/languages symposium here in Redmond in August called Lang .NET 2006. Erik just announced that registrations are open, so sign up! As it turns out, I’m going to be giving a talk at the symposium. Ignore the title currently on the site (“Visual Basic 9”), here’s my current proposed title and abstract:
Visual Basic: Where are we going, where have we been?
With its third version on the .NET Framework, Visual Basic has largely completed the process of moving from its previous home in COM to its new home in the...
Interested in working for Microsoft? Want to build a compiler? Want to work on the coolest programming language ever? The Visual Basic compiler development lead position is open and we’re looking for someone with the right stuff to fill it:
Microsoft Visual Basic is used by millions of developers worldwide, and is widely acclaimed for both its power and ease-of-use. As the next Development Lead of the Visual Basic Compiler and Editor team, you will be the guiding hand behind the development of the next version of Visual Basic's powerful programming language. Data/Language integration -LINQ-, advanced IntelliSense and other editor features,...
For those readers who also read French, Grégory Renard (a.k.a. Rédo), one of our MVPs, just published a book (along with others) called “Visual Basic 2005: Le Guide Complet”:
And I don’t think I mentioned this before, but my book has also been translated into French, so check it out: