August 2004 - Posts

• VB Dev Center Community page updates

  Check out the VB Dev Center Community page . Duncan and I have spend a lot of time lately talking about this page and what we can do to make it more of a community page. The ultimate goal is to make this page more of a community portal, a front door to Read More... Posted Tuesday, August 31, 2004 11:59 AM by rgreen_msft | 4 Comments Filed under: VB Community

• VB suggestions update

  As of 8/24, the VB team has 186 suggestions entered through the MSDN Product Feedback Center (up from 169 the week before), 168 of which have been entered since Beta 1. Of the 186 total suggestions, 104 have been resolved (up from 93 the week before). Read More... Posted Wednesday, August 25, 2004 1:10 PM by rgreen_msft | 6 Comments Filed under: Visual Basic Whidbey

• VB to VB .NET Upgrade Tour content

  Jackie Goldstein has posted the slides, demos and videos of the VB to VB .NET Upgrade Tour on the Microsoft Israel Web site. Way to go Jackie! And speaking of Jackie, he will be speaking at the VB Meeting of the .NET Developers Association this Monday Read More... Posted Friday, August 20, 2004 8:10 PM by rgreen_msft | 1 Comments Filed under: Visual Basic general

• More good music on the Web (or the radio if you live in Boston)

  WERS 88.9 FM Emerson College Radio in Boston, at www.wers.org I first heard this station when I was in Boston (out for a run in my home town of Marblehead). I recently found them on the Web. The weekday show Jazz Oasis is 10 AM to 2 PM EST, which is 7 Read More... Posted Friday, August 20, 2004 7:23 PM by rgreen_msft | 1 Comments Filed under: Personal stuff

• Top 10 Worst Software

  Check out John Dvorak's list of the 10 worst software packages of all time: 10. Microsoft Bob 9. Combined Category: Dead Programming Languages 8. MicroPro Easy 7. Windows 1.0 6. Access (the telecom program, not the database) 5. TopView 4. Lotus Symphony Read More... Posted Friday, August 20, 2004 7:15 PM by rgreen_msft | 9 Comments Filed under: Miscellaneous

• Previously on Robert Green's blog

  Robert blogged for awhile. Then he stopped. Then he sort of started again, but not so much. Then he stopped, or more accurately, stopped starting again. But now he is back, again. And is committed to regular blogging. You'll see. Read More... Posted Friday, August 20, 2004 7:06 PM by rgreen_msft | 2 Comments Filed under: Personal stuff