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Returned from Redmond

October 27th 2007 • Microsoft (Microsoft, redmond) • 980 views • 2 responses

It’s been an overwhelming few days listening and interacting with bright people from the .NET community and within Microsoft itself (wish I could say more but I can’t). Here are just a few of those names, I wish I knew them all but I was so busy listening to what they had to say I often forgot to ask for a card:

• Jonathan Carter
• Kevin Huffman
• Aaron Jensen
• Dimitar Kapitanov
• James Kovaks
• Julia Lerman
• Jeffrey Palmero
• Vassil Terziev

And from the Microsoft side of the fence

• Brad Abrams
• Pablo Castro
• Simon Calvert
• Scott Guthrie
• Eilon Lipton
• Lance Olson

Congratulations go out to Rob Conery who is now getting paid by Microsoft to work on SubSonic!

How cool is that!

[)amien

Heading to Redmond

October 12th 2007 • Microsoft, Personal, Travel (Microsoft, redmond) • 1,104 views • one response

I’ve been invited out to Microsoft HQ for a couple of days (October 22-23) which should be very interesting – more details on the what, why and how at a later date.

I will also be spending an extra day and a half in Seattle, perhaps taking in some of the sights of and maybe meeting up with a couple of on-line contacts for the first time.

Flights & hotel booked, now where I did put my passport…

The event was a Software Design Review for Microsoft’s ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions including MVC. Twenty-four of us gave our thoughts, feelings and opinions to the teams on how we believe we would or could utilise various aspects.

[)amien