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Developers 37 times!!!
13 September 03 12:23 AM | RWlodarczyk | 1 Comments   
Don Box points to this very funny PDC spoof video . Go check it out. Read More...
New Books I'm Looking Forward To
11 September 03 09:34 PM | RWlodarczyk | 5 Comments   
From aPress (links and text copied from aPress' Forthcoming Titles list ): Developing on Linux with C# and .NET: The Mono Project By Daniel Solin ISBN: 1-59059-117-8, 200 pages The Mono Project is a complete implementation of Microsoft’s .NET technology Read More...
CF.NET Development vs. Java/Symbian/etc...
24 August 03 12:17 PM | RWlodarczyk | 2 Comments   
Brian Jepson points to a great link talking about how much development for the Compact .NET Framework rocks (compared to developing Java solutions for mobile platforms). I had this discussion (CF vs Java Mobile development) with a die-hard Java developer Read More...
First Day @ Microsoft
18 August 03 09:42 PM | RWlodarczyk | 5 Comments   
Ok, as promised, I said that I'd tell the story of my first day at Microsoft... Please bear with some of the parts of this, I'll just go through my entire day from start to end. Last night was the first night that I spent at my apartment that I leased Read More...
Evening Before the Big Start Date
17 August 03 08:55 PM | RWlodarczyk | 21 Comments   
Tomorrow I begin work at Microsoft. This is the long awaited day since my acceptance back in July. This past week has been really crazy. Amidst all the craziness of setting up my new apartment, and many trips to Costco Home for furniture and stuff, I Read More...
Newsgroups & RSS --> why not?
10 August 03 11:22 PM | RWlodarczyk | 11 Comments   
Chris Sells made an excellent point last week when he said he doesn't read anything that doesn't have an RSS feed. You know, I was thinking just last night that I don't get around to reading the microsoft.* newsgroups as much as I want to recently. I Read More...
Blogger Meet Up Next Wednesday
06 August 03 10:39 AM | RWlodarczyk | 1 Comments   
Scoble writes: "Sam Gentile is gonna be in Redmond next week. He wants to get a weblogger dinner together. So, how about next Wednesday evening. 7 p.m.? At the Crossroads? If anyone needs a ride from campus, let me know." I'll already be in Redmond next Read More...
Microsoft, MSR, Academia, & Research (oh my!)
01 August 03 12:12 AM | RWlodarczyk | 1 Comments   
This past week Microsoft held its annual Faculty Summit ( ref. 1 , ref. 2 , ref. 3 ). This is a conference where faculty members from the top research universities within the United States are invited to attend. (Actually, this year there were many invitiations Read More...
Partial plan for upcoming week
25 July 03 11:08 AM | RWlodarczyk | 0 Comments   
Well, amidst all my move planning and (dis-)organization at home due to the move, I've got a fairly busy plan for Tuesday next week. First I'm heading out to NYC for the Free Keynote at VSLive!. This should be cool to see what's coming up (not that I Read More...
.NET gains over Java
25 July 03 10:01 AM | RWlodarczyk | 4 Comments   
As Robert points out in his latest blog, looks like .NET is gaining on Java! Woohoo!! Maybe now if Computer Science Departments would look at such numbers and see in fact that .NET is a viable and a REAL development platform (contrary to what many of Read More...
Thank you to all!
19 July 03 10:43 PM | RWlodarczyk | 1 Comments   
I just wanted to thank everyone for their comments on my previous entry . I just got back from a few days away from computers, email, the Internet, and all of the fun stuff. I spent a few days in Cannon Beach, OR ... It's an amazing beach, esp. for those Read More...
I've taken the red pill...
15 July 03 12:38 AM | RWlodarczyk | 17 Comments   
While I was in Barcelona, I received an offer from Microsoft for a full-time position as a Software Design Engineer in Test on part of the Windows team (I won't say specifically which part of Windows). I've given this offer alot of thought, and this morning Read More...
Back from Barcelona
05 July 03 06:50 PM | RWlodarczyk | 1 Comments   
Wow, that was a great trip. Barcelona was fantastic. Here's a brief recap... Imagine Cup was really well organzied and overall a great competition. Congratulations yet again to all of the 15 teams that made it to the International Competition. We're all Read More...
Off to Barcelona tonite!
23 June 03 11:33 AM | RWlodarczyk | 2 Comments   
This is the moment I've been waiting for for about 2 months now. Nearly exactly 2 months ago, the US Finals for the Imagine Cup were in full effect. Now, after 2 months of waiting, not idly, I'm off to Barcelona, Spain tonite. These next two weeks will Read More...
Hmm... not a bad deal...
20 May 03 10:04 AM | RWlodarczyk | 1 Comments   
So, it seems that this Microsoft licensing of SCO that I mentioned in my blog yesterday may actually end up turning heads more than I initially thought. As Jesse correctly mentioned in the comments yesterday, it seems like this is giving some legitimacy Read More...
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