chadr's skewed perspectivePlease don't let Word auto-correct my name.MSBuild at Tech Ed 2004- May 27, 2004 Some of you know I work with Alex Kipman on MSBuild. Alex and others are down at Tech Ed this week, presenting on MSBuild, something we're trying to do often. The team held a cabana session earlier this week, and has a full-on breakout on Friday afternoon. So John Lam (who talks with us alot about MSBuild) decided to out Alex's blog as pressure to get him to blog more. I'll go one step further, and &8220;gently suggest&8220; that as his first topic he should talk about...http://blogs.msdn.com/chadroyal/archive/2004/05/27/143162.aspx You are here!- May 27, 2004 I've been enjoying the perils of technology and process limitations, but finally I've been able to post the snapshot of our Visual Studio hallway where your pictures and bios are being displayed. You are here Now I can get on to posting some actual technical blog content and responding to the inquiries you've sent me!http://blogs.msdn.com/chadroyal/archive/2004/05/27/143117.aspx The VSCore Team Loves You!- May 20, 2004 A few days ago, I invited you to let me know who you are. On behalf of the folks on the VS team, I want to thank all of you who responded to me, sent me a note, a picture, a bio, a resume, or even just an electronic version of your business card! I'm overwhelmed! And I'm really moved. Thank you for your response, and more importantly, thank you for your honesty and integrity. The great thing about doing things like this is that once you put it out there, you find out...http://blogs.msdn.com/chadroyal/archive/2004/05/20/136305.aspx Dear Customer- May 14, 2004 Dear Customer, My name is Chad and I work at Microsoft. I help make Visual Studio. Who are you I want to get to know you better. I talked with you in email, newsgroups, instant messaging. If I'm lucky, I met you at a conference; Over beer & chicken wings (well, more likely, warm soda and cold pasta) I put a face & personality with the name. But when the conference was over, we both went home and the faces might have been forgotten. I...http://blogs.msdn.com/chadroyal/archive/2004/05/14/132307.aspx Are you an lvalue or an rvalue- May 12, 2004 There are many different ways to describe the &8220;lead or follow&8220; model. Compiler geeks (whom I used to publicly, and now secretly, aspire to join) might think of this in terms of lvalue and rvalue (setting the value, or reading the value). My favorite way of thinking about this dichotomy is with the dictionary, specifically the Oxford English Dictionary. The venerable OED. Pour a beer down me and I can rant on this for three bowls of pretzels. The...http://blogs.msdn.com/chadroyal/archive/2004/05/12/130561.aspx What not to do!- May 10, 2004 Here's a new life lesson for me, one I discovered on or about my 40th birthday: Don't start a blog on the day before a multi-day vacation. I think the lesson can be generalized to: Don't start something in one context right before switching to a different one. JoeN was giving me grief, and rightly so, about having not updated my blog since it was created. He's right. Joe and I once laughed for, well, minutes about the idea that blogging had jumped the shark. ..http://blogs.msdn.com/chadroyal/archive/2004/05/10/129399.aspx |