Daily Archives: June 9, 2004

INETA general inbox

Ineta

I am [by choice] somewhat of a filter for the many general emails that come into INETA. It’s actually fun because I see so much that is going on and connect with a lot of people. Most times I need to just make sure the email gets to the person with the right knowledge to respond to whatever the email was about.

Today there was an email from a startup user group in Moscow (the one in Russia, not the little town outside of Stowe, Vermont). The leader is a university student who was part of one of the Imagine Cup teams that competed in the final rounds in Russia this year. I just needed to get that mail forwarded to Christian Nagel, but as I did I also cc’d a few other guys in Russia, Andrei Filev who is very involved with INETA and Mike Yasnev, yet another student u.g. leader from Moscow who I have chatted with a bunch of times. This way, the new user group leader could be sure to get connected to some other people who already have a experience with INETA and especially because Andrei is a great resource in Russia for .NET.

There are a ton of things that I do with INETA that give me great pleasure. This is definitely one of them.

VS Team System and Whitehorse – catering to both sides of the fence?

Just Rambling

With the ongoing debate between UML-types and XP-types, does anybody think, as I do, that by introducing Whitehorse which (from my limited experience with modelling – so I could be misinterpreting it) embeds modelling into Visual Studio and introducing Team System which (from my limited experience with XP since I work alone) embeds XP practices into Visual Studio, that Microsoft is now catering to both types of programmers? Which of course is the safe and smart thing to do, rather than tout one practice over the other.

Microsoft Locker Room etiquette 101

Just Rambling

So you’re in the locker room (let’s say you’re a guy and it’s the men’s locker room). There’s sweaty Steve Ballmer standing 6 feet away getting ready to take a shower. You are the only two guys in the locker room.

What do you do?

Ignore him?
Say “hey, pretty impressive lifting I saw you doing out there, dude”? (well, you might want to skip the “dude“ part…)
Ask him why the hell there are so many different image editing applications from MS?
Tell him you think it’s time you got a g*-d* raise?

Luckily a quandry I’ll never be in. But if you’re Duncan Mackenzie (or some other MS employee working out at the corporate gym), you definitely have to worry about stuff like this. Read what Duncan has to say on the topic.