Now that I wrote my VBScript.NET post, I’m finding others have also been addressing the issue. Maybe one more voice helps? An open letter to Microsoft by Danny Boyd Why do hobbyists matter? by Paul Vick Save the Hobbyist Programmer by Kathleen Dollard Actually, I previously read Kathleen’s article and it influenced my essay but when …
Responding to Eric Lippert’s Blog Entry
Thanks Eric for acknowledging my post. Eric, sorry about misusing Mort and Matt. I didn’t see the comments of Peter Torr and your responses until after I wrote my long rambling post (yes I agree, it was long and rambling, intentionally.) Actually, I feel my comments apply both to Matt and Mort. Mort still has …
A Modest Proposal: VBScript.NET, aka “Helping Mort use .NET”
As I alluded to in my recent essay on Transitionality, this is the essay which proved one of the main catalysts for me to start blogging. But first a bit about the alternate title. So Who is Mort, you ask? I referenced him w/o explaining in my prior essay, though I linked to his “creator” …
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Twelve Tips for Running a Beta Test
This is for all my vendors who don’t know how to run a beta program (for that matter, I don’t either): Joel on Software has a cool list of Twelve Tips for Running a Beta Test
Developer Tools Need Transitionality
This essay is really a prelude and prerequisite for my next planned essay, the essay which was one of the several catalysts to start me blogging in the first place. What are Tools? Let me start by defining some terms: “Tools” and “Transitionality.” By “Tools” I don’t necessarily mean just 3rd party components like grids …
Thanks for the Shout Out
Just wanted to make a quick post to the Scobelizer and Vince Kimball for their mention of my new blog. Thanks guys for welcoming the new guy!
A little background is in order…
As my second post I guess I’ll tell potential readers a little about myself and my company. I live in Atlanta, Georgia USA where I have lived most of my life. From 1981 to 1988 I attended Georgia Tech to get a degree in Mechanical Engineering, and an "honorary" degree in Computer Science. I gave …
Welcome to the real world
Hello all. Today I am embarking on what might well become the most time fascinating yet consuming project on my life. Writing a blog. It started many moons ago when Greg Silvano of CodeHound told me “You have to get a blog! You have far too many things to say to the world not to …