I just finished blogging about my mini-vacation weekend riding motorcycles in the north Georgia mountains with my father, but I decided to split it in to because this was logically seperate. After we left Suches, Georgia on Sunday around 1pm, we traveled south to Dahlonega, Georgia to meet Kathleen Dollard who had scheduled to have …
CodeGenGrrl’s got a Blog
After much prodding by myself and others, Kathleen Dollard, author of Code Generation in .NET, has finally gotten herself a blog. You go girl!
Great People and Old Friends at VS Connections
I just got back from the Visual Studio Connections conference in Orlando, Florida for a few days. I went down for a few meetings, and had a really great time. I meet Robert Green who on Monday night previewed a free set of soon to be released components called the VBPowerPack. Robert and I talked about …
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Woe be it for the Hobbyist Programmer
I just came across a blog entry that disturbed me entitled Should the hobbyist programmer matter to Microsoft? by Rory Blyth of Neopolean.com. It was not so much the blog entry by Rory that really disturbed me, but the tone of the comments he received (over 100 at the time.) As I started writing this …
More Support for the Scripter?
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 …