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A Publisher's Journey Into His Former Life
October 2007 - Posts
To Everyone Submitting Articles on Acropolis...
29 October 07 03:34 PM
Please see the following . As such, we're not going to be accepting submissions on Acropolis for the moment as we're waiting to see how the landscape looks after the dust settles over in P&P-land .
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Turing Complete Text Messaging??
26 October 07 04:40 PM
I live vicariously through people with great senses of humor and WAY too much free time... http://blog.notdot.net/archives/32-LOLCode.net-Now-your-LOLCats-can-use-the-CLR!.html LOL^2!
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Interviewing Bjarne Stroustrup!!
25 October 07 04:25 PM
I'm actually pretty excited at the moment. If you remember this post from a while back , I gave you the opportunity to tell me who you wanted to hear from in MSDN Magazine . In that post, I also mentioned that it could be anybody from Bill
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Wanna Work at MSDN Magazine??
21 October 07 05:45 PM
As Josh recently posted , we are looking for a new Senior Editor to join the staff at MSDN Magazine. Here's the link to the formal job posting . The top of this posting lists the position as a Redmond-based position. The reality is that
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My Last Certification Post... (aka - Introducing Gerry)
19 October 07 06:05 PM
Well, that might be a little overly-dramatic, but all you folks that have been following this blog for certification news should definitely pay attention. As you may or may not know (if you didn't know, um...surprise?), I left Microsoft Learning this
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Disabling the Annoying Toshiba Menu
19 October 07 11:25 AM
Do any of you have a Toshiba laptop? I have a Techra M5, and today I finally got annoyed to the point of looking up how to disable this moronic system menu . Now I can move my mouse again without fear of accidentally bumping the top of the screen.
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ALT.NET - Trip Report
18 October 07 08:41 PM
I had the recent opportunity to travel to Austin, TX to attend a meeting of the minds of those who are considered thought leaders in the .NET agile/open source space. This community, in somewhat of an expression of feeling that the general .NET community
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ALT.NET - Day 3
18 October 07 06:43 PM
I can't believe that it has taken me so long to get around to writing my concluding thoughts on the conference. That said, perhaps this is a good thing as I have been able to watch the post-conference churn in the blogosphere over the past couple of weeks
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Note to My ALT.NET Friends Submitting Article Ideas
18 October 07 04:05 PM
I'm glad that I'm obsessive enough to periodically check my junk folder in Outlook. As I was doing this today, I found emails from Jeremy and Russell about writing for MSDN Magazine . I was able to catch these and respond - however, if you submitted an
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Microsoft Bellevue Office - What a View!
18 October 07 11:20 AM
I had a meeting yesterday at one of Microsoft's newer office spaces in downtown Bellevue. Microsoft has the top 15 or so floors of a 28 story building right in Lincoln Square (translation: lots of great places to hang out/eat). Here's one of the coolest
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Free PDF "Quick Version" of Domain Driven Design
10 October 07 10:56 AM
http://www.infoq.com/minibooks/domain-driven-design-quickly
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ALT.NET Conference, Day 2 - Taking the Good With the Bad
06 October 07 09:57 PM
Today's post is actually a nice continuance of yesterday's because it deals very specifically with one of the issues that I raised yesterday - specifically the issue of the emerging tenuous relationship between the ALT.NET community and the rest of the
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ALT.NET Conference - Opening Day..Opening Thoughts
05 October 07 10:32 PM
I'm currently in Austin, Texas where I'm attending the ALT.NET conference . This conference is essentially a who's who of thought leaders in the .NET agile/open source community - everyone from Martin Fowler to Jim Newkirk to Scott Hanselman to Scott
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Ode To Teachers: Dennis Phllips
05 October 07 09:30 AM
As you may or may not know, Friday, October 5, is Worldwide Teacher Appreciation Day . As such, I would like to quickly pay special tribute to my high school biology teacher, Dennis Phillips. Mr. Phillips had that special quality that enabled him to push
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So Mad Right Now
03 October 07 07:24 PM
All I want to do is install VS 2008 - that's all. Unfortunately, the uninstall story with VS 2005 is so complicated that in the process of individually uninstalling the 10+ different applications (according to MSI), I have somehow also corrupted my LifeCam
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Windows SDK Integration with VS/VC++
02 October 07 10:06 AM
Part of my job with MSDN Magazine is looking at the accompanying code samples that we make available for download. A lot of things go into the level of detail that I spend with the code samples (such as how much time I have available, how familiar I am
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