Nathan Brixius

It occurs to me that there's a difference between "getting the most" and "getting the best" from someone. Read More...

A colleague asked me to jot down some thoughts on what makes a good developer at Microsoft. This is by no means complete, but three statements come to mind when I think about strong developers: We are engineers, not hackers. A strong dev should be able Read More...

A friend on my previous team wrote a tool to generate GUID values where the first two bytes are zero. (And I'll say right here that I don't think there is a legitimate need for such a tool, but that's not the point.) I'm working from memory but the C# Read More...

Part of what I am enjoying about The Best and The Brightest are the profiles of the generals, presidents, and policy makers. McGeorge Bundy was the Special Assistant for National Security Affairs under JFK and LBJ; prior to this he was a faculty member Read More...