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...

I like coffee. Okay, I really like coffee. I'm not even sure the morning would ever turn to afternoon without being lubricated by latte. Several years ago, I bought a Krups Il Caffe Duomo espresso maker, which I've been very happy with. I've had to replace...

If you're a Visual C++ developer headed to PDC05, there are a bunch of cool things for you to see and do... Labs The Visual C++ team is sponsoring two labs during PDC: VC++ Upgrade Lab: There are a number of changes in Visual C...

In a word: hogwash. In fact, I think the time is long overdue to file this .com-era fallacy away next to "Super B owl ads are a great idea for startups", "drawing an audience is more important than making a profit," and "people will totally buy...

Steven Sinofsky, VP of all things Office, posted a great blog entry last night on the important role of failure in engineering to achieve success. Steven was one of the original implementers of MFC, and he tells an interesting tale about the dismal...