The .NET Sweatshop (v2)"My life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can." - George Bernard ShawAn Ode To GotDotNet- February 21, 2007 About two years ago, I stepped into this role with a primary responsibility being to help get GotDotNet back on its feet. As the first Microsoft community for .NET, GDN held a dear place in the hearts of many. However, it had clearly fallen on hard times and there was a strong proposal to end the site. Personally, I had used GDN way too much to see it go down without a fight. When Betsy Aoki left the team, I gave a little insight to the story of how we stepped up when no.http://blogs.msdn.com/sandyk/archive/2007/02/21/an-ode-to-gotdotnet.aspx Oh Boise! My Second Code Camp- February 13, 2007 Last weekend, four developers from my team and I headed over to Boise, Idaho for my second code camp. Having never been to Boise, I was almost more curious about the town than the Code Camp itself. After all, my image of Idaho was rural farmland, potatoes, and, well, potatoes. Granted, that isn't very worldly of me, but given I grew up in New Jersey and many people think of toxic waste, Bon Jovi, and the Sopranos (hey, we got Sinatra and the Boss too!), I guess you could do worse than...http://blogs.msdn.com/sandyk/archive/2007/02/13/oh-boise-my-second-code-camp.aspx |