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Archives / 2006 / October
  • Steve Wozniak ... at Microsoft?

    I know it may sound very strange coming from a Microsoft employee, but last Friday I found myself in awe while I sat directly in front of Steve Wozniak while he gave a presentation ... on Microsoft campus. 

  • Unsafe thread safety

    As I stated in my last post, for the past two days I've been sitting in Jeffrey Richter's threading class. The class is near the end and I can't say that a lot of new concepts have been taught. Another student and I have decided that the class should have been renamed, "Threading Basics". That's not to say anything of Richter's teaching skill or the content of the class.  It just goes to show that if the architecture of a product is right, the threading code should be extremely simple to use.

  • Back in business...

    I haven't blogged for some time now.  This in large part has been due to heavy workload, close deadlines, and the fact that I was alone in my workload.  Over the past few weeks, I've been able to get my head above water.  While our open position on the team is still "open", we've filled our contractor position. Not only have we "filled" it, we've actually brought in one of our old contractors who is more than capable.  He is definitely helping to alieviate my workload already.  I've finished my Vista RTM handoffs and that has taken off some more pressure.  I've also completed my first review at Microsoft and, while I definitely see much room for improvement in the process, I was pretty pleased with the outcome.