shawn's blogLOAD"",1Great new MSPress title- February 23, 2005 One of the kind folks over in MSPress just dropped off an advance copy of, “Practical Guidelines and Best Practices for VB and C Developers”, and I’m having a great time reading it… I’d highly recommend at least a perusal of this one. My favorite section so far is chapter 19, covering exception handling. I’m one of those who typically assumes all is well until an exception is thrown, so this is great info for me. Other favorites are..http://blogs.msdn.com/shawnmor/archive/2005/02/23/379122.aspx fear and loathing and death- February 21, 2005 Damn. Hunter S. Thompson killed himself with his own gun. Poor, poor bastard. I loved Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas. But that was written thirty years ago. F. Scott Fitzgerald (an author I loathe, incidentally) famously wrote, "There are no Second Acts in American lives." It seems true enough in modern American literature. It seems amazingly, amazingly true in American counterculture literature. Related... gapingvoidhttp://blogs.msdn.com/shawnmor/archive/2005/02/21/377382.aspx I need an editorial manager- February 12, 2005 I have a new opportunity on my team for an editorial manager. If you're a great editor, and an even better advocate of the editorial role, and a superb people manager, give me a ring... Shawn Job Description Editorial Manager, MOTO Come help a talented team of editors produce great content for two of the top Microsoft sites MSDN and TechNet. The MSDN Online and TechNet Online team is looking for an experienced manager to help drive the editorial quality these two sites demand. As a key..http://blogs.msdn.com/shawnmor/archive/2005/02/11/371504.aspx |