Not sure why I'm calling it a "post mortem," since I feel pretty solidly in the midst of mortem itself at the moment. Ayman and I had to get up at 5:00 AM eastern to catch the flight back to Seattle, and it's now about 4:00 PM pacific, so feeling pretty...

I'm in Reston, VA this week with team members Ayman Shoukry and Alex Thaman where we're putting on a VC 2005 developer lab for a handful of east coast-based ISVs. This is similar to the Redmond lab I wrote about a while back . I'm actually on a break...

So, you may have heard that the big Microsoft company meeting was held yesterday at Safeco field . A good event, all around. This year Microsoft turns 30 and Windows turns 20. Gee, let's see, if MS is 30, then judging by those early photos of of BillG...

My wife, Helen, reminds me that today is Talk Like a Pirate Day. Who says so? Well, Dave Barry , for one, so it must be true. Apparently, banks and post offices in the US have the gall to remain open today, but that doesn't mean you can't have fun even...

Thanks to all the customers that took the time to meet with me! There was a ton of cool content at PDC, and I appreciate that folks we willing to miss a bit of it in order to have a sit down with the VC++ team. I know we gained some invaluable insights...

The middle day of PDC was indeed the busiest of all for me. The VC++ team held five fairly in-depth meetings with some of our larger customers. I was pleased to see that most of the folks I've met with have at least tinkered with VC 2005 -- they like...

After staying up late last night, I got up early to register and watch the keynote. I took the shuttle bus to the convention center and, upon walking in, I saw I wasn't the only one with this bright idea. Lots and lots and lots of people were...

As Emperor Zurg might say, Los Angeles' power outage today appeared to be caused by the high voltage equivalent of failing to connect the plus wire to the plus side and the minus wire to the minus side. Anyway, glad to see they got that fixed...

I managed to arrive in LA just in time for a huge power outage . You really haven't lived until you've experience downtown LA without functioning traffic lights. And it wasn't just the lack of streetlights making things fun but also the fact that...

Fellow San Jose State Spartan, Robert Scoble, finally gets The Man in his lens . Cool interview. I was struck by Bill's more cerebral take on Steve B's famous "Developers! Developers! Developers!" chant when he said "Most of what we do is just...