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• You can take the developer out of the technology company, but you can't take the technology out of the developer

  Despite the title, I'm not a cyborg. For those of you who missed that implication, I'll give you a moment... Seriously though, even though I've been a non-MSer for a little over 3 months now, I'm still passionate about technology. You can witness the Read More... Posted Wednesday, February 21, 2007 8:19 AM by jacobcy | 1 Comments Filed under: Developer Knowledge, Personal Life

• Figured out how to keep this blog active a little bit longer...

  That's going to remain a secret, but those of you who make your way to my blog and want to stay in touch, the "Contact Me" functionality should now work properly. Cheers (and Happy Coding), Jacob Read More... Posted Wednesday, January 17, 2007 5:55 PM by jacobcy | 1 Comments Filed under: Developer Knowledge, Personal Life

• Farewell to Microsoft

  During my three-year tenure at Microsoft, I have met many wonderful people. For those of you I have worked with along the way, I wanted to share my bittersweet news. After three amazing years at Microsoft, I will be leaving to start a new chapter in my Read More... Posted Wednesday, October 18, 2006 2:44 PM by jacobcy | 3 Comments Filed under: Upcoming MSDN Events, User Group Events, Developer Knowledge, Personal Life, Visual Basic 2005 Today

• Stay tuned: upcoming webcast series pilots in September

  Howdy loyal blog readers, We don't have all of the details worked out yet, but I wanted to let you all know about an experimental webcast series that my friend Glen Gordon and I are putting together. Basically, we're going to be interviewing experts on Read More... Posted Wednesday, August 09, 2006 7:00 PM by jacobcy | 0 Comments Filed under: Developer Knowledge, Personal Life

• Omaha beats out Boston!

  So I was in Omaha yesterday for the MSDN Event this quarter, and I was overwhelmed by the tremendous enthusiasm that poured forth from the developer community. We usually average about 45% drop-off, meaning that 55 % of the registered customers actually Read More... Posted Wednesday, August 09, 2006 6:05 PM by jacobcy | 4 Comments Filed under: Developer Knowledge, Personal Life

• Who are you?

  I haven't received a lot of comments or feedback to my blog in the past couple months, so I'm curious to know who my regular blog readers are. I find blogging is a lot like webcasting - on the surface, it seems like a one-way stream of data, but there Read More... Posted Wednesday, November 09, 2005 8:04 AM by jacobcy | 17 Comments Filed under: Developer Knowledge, Personal Life

• BizTalk, I hardly knew ye!

  Me and my big mouth. Gosh, I say that an awful lot. This time it's because of what shall probably go down in the history books as "The BizTalk Incident". Flashback - Chicago Day of .NET (several months ago) - I spoke at the event and had the opportunity Read More... Posted Thursday, August 25, 2005 3:30 PM by jacobcy | 2 Comments Filed under: Developer Knowledge, Personal Life

• Funniest thing I've seen in a while

  Click here --> http://www.escapeyesterworld.com/ <-- and enjoy this marketing campaign in all of its humorous corniness. I'm not sure how well it gets across the value of our SQL Server 2005/Visual Studio 2005 pairing, but I had a blast Escaping Read More... Posted Tuesday, July 26, 2005 8:38 PM by jacobcy | 4 Comments Filed under: Developer Knowledge, Personal Life

• My manager wants to know...

  ... how many people are reading my blog posts? My manager set up a simple tracking url http://www.msdnevents.com/jacob so that we can measure how many developers are checking out my blog and finding out what I have to share (and occasionally rant about). Read More... Posted Sunday, November 28, 2004 7:03 PM by jacobcy | 11 Comments Filed under: Developer Knowledge, Personal Life

• RoamDrive - a personal, internet-based, virtual file system

  Dearest Blog Readers, A software utility finally exists that will leverage all of the wonderful new storage space on all three* major free internet-based email providers - Hotmail, Yahoo! Mail and GMail. RoamDrive is currently in beta and can be downloaded Read More... Posted Tuesday, November 02, 2004 3:45 PM by jacobcy | 3 Comments Filed under: Developer Knowledge, Personal Life