Jeff's JunkThe sillynonsense and .NET musings of Jeff PutzBill Gates era coming to a close- June 24, 2008 Bill Gates is just about done at Microsoft. I feel very fortunate just have been in the same room when he did the keynote at Mix06. I don't think the guy is evil in any way. I think he's f'ing brilliant, and he deserves every bit of his success. He's not always right, but he's a smart guy.I really dig this quote from this interview:I mean, that's the greatest surprise to me of all in my whole business career is that you find people who are so good at one thing, and where the principles and...http://weblogs.asp.net/jeff/archive/2008/06/24/bill-gates-era-coming-to-a-close.aspx Lingering thoughts about the Microsoft interview experience- June 23, 2008 It's strange how a number of different posts on my blog get comments practically every day. The big ones have to do with the failure of US education, my HP laptop from four years ago with the broken power jack, Xbox Live support sucking and the entire apppagecontrol event cycle based on pre-beta ASP.NET v2. A new one has become my post on my experience interviewing at Microsoft.The comments on that post were thin, but I'm staggered by the number of e-mail messages I get. They come from random...http://weblogs.asp.net/jeff/archive/2008/06/23/lingering-thoughts-about-the-microsoft-inte... XNA Creators Club sucks too- June 20, 2008 It's bad enough that I can't use my real name on Xbox Live, but I can't even do it trying to sign up for the XNA Creators Club. And I'm sure there's no human being who would respond to, and act, to fix it. Believe me, I've tried.You'd think my last name wouldn't be banned now that there is a baseball player, in Seattle no less, who shares the cursed name.http://weblogs.asp.net/jeff/archive/2008/06/20/xna-creators-club-sucks-too.aspx Understanding the benefit of a good IDE- June 19, 2008 Tyler posted a link to a blog post about someone preferring a text editor over an integrated development environment (IDE). Naturally, my first thought is, wow, who thinks like thisMy first real exposure to development work was with the old ASP, which was frankly a shitty scripting language. You could use Notepad, FrontPage or a stone tablet to "develop" scripts. And why the heck not You ran the page and it either worked or it didn't.In 2001 I got into the .NET beta thing pretty early, along...http://weblogs.asp.net/jeff/archive/2008/06/19/understanding-the-benefit-of-a-good-ide.asp... ReSharper 4.0 is out!- June 10, 2008 The best $199 you'll ever spend if you use Visual Studio...http:www.jetbrains.comresharperhttp://weblogs.asp.net/jeff/archive/2008/06/10/resharper-4-0-is-out.aspx Microsoft interview fail- June 4, 2008 Well, I don't have to worry about moving to Seattle, because Microsoft is not making an offer. So now that it's all in the past, I feel like I can talk a little more openly about the experience.I won't say which group it was that I was approached by, but I will say that it was not one that I expected. My expertise is largely in the ASP.NET space, and this was a PM gig definitely not in that area. It was initially pitched to me as being heavily related to my experience, so I figured, sweet, I...http://weblogs.asp.net/jeff/archive/2008/06/04/microsoft-interview-fail.aspx Distributed caching: Velocity- June 4, 2008 This post by Scott has me thinking a bit about caching. It's a topic that I'm sure every ASP.NET developer has had to deal with, but it's funny how you can be around something so much over time that you cease to think critically about it. That's certainly my condition.I admittedly don't find any time to mess around with other platforms (which in part comes from a desire to be great at using one, not mediocre at many), but I do read a number of blogs and try to keep up with news sources to at...http://weblogs.asp.net/jeff/archive/2008/06/04/distributed-caching-velocity.aspx Interviewing at Microsoft- June 2, 2008 So by now it's probably pretty obvious that I interviewed at Microsoft. Truthfully, I haven't been looking for a job, and I tend to like where I'm at right now. That said, I had a series of casual conversations with various people at Microsoft, and out of the blue I got a call asking me to come interview for a program manager position.The PM position kind of reminds me of the gig I had at Penton Media, basically where you provide the vision and direction for something, and coordinate the...http://weblogs.asp.net/jeff/archive/2008/06/02/interviewing-at-microsoft.aspx |