Daily Archives: March 26, 2005

Losing stuff

Tools

It’s starting to become a pattern

I “lost” my Pocket PC at DevTeach in Montreal. I think I accidentally left it behind in the hotel room and it was never to be seen again – or something like that.

After spending 45 minutes showing the very nice young waitress at the New York Sports Grill who is attending art school my TabletPC and letting her play with it, I managed to leave the stylus behind. Someone probably just picked it up thinking it was a cheapo pen. By the time I was getting ready to board the plane and realized I didn’t have my stylus, the restaurant was all closed up. That’s the $32 stylus that handily fits right into my tablet. Darn! Luckily I have a beautiful Wacom Executive pen.

I left my handy little retractable ethernet cable behind while at Code Camp. That was one my MVP Lead gave to me last year and it is a great thing to have.

I “lost” my laptop mouse at DevConnections. I’m 98% sure I left it in my room on the desk when I went downstairs.

Lucky for me I had some MVP bucks left so I just went ahead and replaced the last two items. I try try try to look behind me whenever I leave a room where I have stuff. Really I do. I have another pocketpc but I don’t even use it.



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Visual Studio Connections: C# for VB programmers

Presentations

I have posted the powerpoint for the C# for VB Programmers session that I gave at Visual Studio Connections earlier this week. They are located on this page: www.thedatafarm.com/talks.aspx.

The disclaimer I gave at the start of this talk is that I am a VB programmer mostly, and not a C# programmer. The presentation is to help VB programmers with some of the very common mistakes that we make when working in C#. I am in no way a C# expert. In fact, one person who attended this talk, while marking that my “knowledge of the topic” was not “excellent” on the eval, did comment that my lack of expertise in C# actually made the presentation more useful. Spot on, baby! 🙂



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more on casey and msdn online

Just Rambling

(writing in lower case in honor of my subject: casey).

casey has a fun post which a list of pros, cons and moots about writing for msdn online.

out of his, i will pick one from each category that i agree or disagree with

pro: getting paid (no brainer)

con: waiting for the article to go live. as you may have noticed, i have nothing on msdn online, though i *have* actually written three articles and am working on a 4th. Though, heck, that’s nothing compared to print!

moot: he lists the due diligence paperwork as moot. eliot, did you hear that? hahahaha. I’d definitely put the paperwork in the con list! though, since the paperwork makes getting paid possible, perhaps that’s how it balances out to a moot for casey. 🙂

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