Worth reading if you’re in the business of software design, development and/or delivery.  He’s the author of two of my personal favorites The Mythical Man-Month and The Design of Design.  I was lucky enough to have The Mythical Man-Month passed on to me early in my career and it certainly influenced the my design approach, philosophies and general view of the creating software (and the business of).  Link to the interview :

http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1600886&ns=18574&WT.mc_id=2010-06-13_NL_InformITContent

What a POS!  Looks cool…but just doesn’t work.  This was given to me as a birthday present.  BTW, E, I do appreciate the thought.  I struggled with this silly thing for a few hours.  Of course, after searching online, I find out it is a complete POS.  The few people that did get it to work said it turned into a ‘brick’ within a few months of usage.  Logitech has been no help at all to the people that purchased this model.  Lucky for me the ‘retailer’ is going to credit the purchase.  Logitech’s online support FAQ and forums are completely useless.  The phone support wasn’t really useful, but at least the CSR was nice and admitted to me that this is an extremely common problem with the device (and that there is no known fix).  For any of you out there, if you see the following in the initial setup give up on it and ask for a refund.

At the time of this post –> I am extremely pissed off at Logitech!

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Another excellent year at TechEd!  After all these years, I still enjoy the lengthy, opinionated and inebriated conversations over technologies, implementations, products, etc.

I did make it to a few interesting sessions and spoke to a few 'official' types about various things ASP.Net MVC, Velocity, Unity, Oslo, etc...  The presentation I actually enjoyed the most was Andrew Connell's 'Don't be a Tool...' SharePoint dev talk...really good stuff from an outstanding presenter.  I was just happy to hear someone actually tell developers to be developers again and quit whining...this could turn in to a <rant/>...I'll stop now.

As usual, the most interesting stuff happens after hours ;-P  Every year I say I'm going to capture more evidence, but I always forget to take pictures...here's the few I ended up with this year.  It was great to see all my old friends and meet quite a few new ones.  I love all of you nerds.  Big props to the Fl crew for organizing the ]inbetween[ event.  And oh, btw, before I forget....SHAREPOINT NATION!!!

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@alanstevens has organized a Meetup of tweeps, twitters and the like...see you there...

Info/links on Allan's Blog

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May 1st

Register --> MS Launch Event - Heroes Happen

The Nashville Visual Studio .NET User Group Leadership will be staffing the INETA booth, so stop by for a visit.  I'll be there...and you should all buy me drinks afterwards! ;-)

small upgrade to the blog...since I finally had time to waste ;-P

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