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Online Chat: Visual C++ 2005 Beta

arich — Mon, 16 Aug 2004 20:46:00 GMT

We're having an online VC++ chat this coming Thursday. I and several of my coworkers from all areas of the product (IDE, front-end, back-end, etc.) will be available for questions. If you're interested in attending, here's the announcement they asked us blog hosters to post:

Join the Visual C++ team to discuss your questions and comments on the Beta
release of Visual C++ 2005. Whether you are a first-time user of the Visual
C++ Express Edition Beta (http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/express/visualc) or
an experienced developer exploring the full Visual Studio 2005 suite, we
want to answer your questions to provide you with a smooth development
experience. So please bring your questions and issues to our attention and
get the answers you need from the Visual C++ team.

August 19, 2004
12:00 - 1:00 P.M. Pacific time
3:00 - 4:00 P.M. Eastern time
19:00 - 20:00 GMT

Chat time for cities world-wide:
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?day=19&month=8&year=2004&hour=12&min=0&sec=0&p1=234&sort=1

To add this chat to you calendar:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/chats/outlook_reminders/MSDN_VC2005B_Aug19_04.ics

For more info on MSDN chats, including other upcoming developer chats, chat
archives, and other info see http://www.msdn.microsoft.com/chats.

The CLR team is looking for a few good people

arich — Sat, 06 Mar 2004 21:02:00 GMT

Joel just posted over on his blog that the CLR team has some open headcount - they're looking to fill a few positions. I can say that working for Microsoft has been one of the most challenging and rewarding experiences of my short life (pay no attention to the fact that I'm posting this on a Saturday), and if you're interested, and you have the skills, I'm sure they'd love to have you.

Check out the details here.

Whoops.

arich — Fri, 23 Jan 2004 19:11:00 GMT

Sometimes, its good to check the blogs.msdn.com aggregator. I was linked by Five Testers from VC today, whom I kept meaning to link, except that I could never remember what their URL is. One of them is my boss's boss, and the guy who convinced me that VC is where I should be (and he was very correct), and one of the others was one of my interviewers.

I strongly suggest you grab their RSS. Five people, five sources for content, one blog. They've got a lot of great ideas for blog content. Team blogging sounds like a neat concept.

They also called me “prolific.” I looked it up, and as I thought, it means “windbag.”