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thewhitelily) wrote2007-08-14 03:25 am
thewhitelily) wrote2007-08-14 03:25 am
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Wherein Lily does some writing, if not quite in the way she'd hoped
I've just come back from the annual Microsoft technical/brainwashing conference, and of course I'm all fired up with new ideas and new tech and new desires to bring the whole world under the wonderous umbrella of Microsoft, our benevolent lord and master.
I'm really excited by a few of the emerging technologies in particular - WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation), Silverlight, and Sync Services to name just a few. My personal favourite has to be the massive (40-100x) performance enhancements to the development environment in response to a specific problem with a small percentage of projects that just happens to affect me and is the major cause of frustration in my life.
Of course, the few days after TechEd are always a bit of a culture shock with the return to reality. Visual Studio 2008, in which all these lovely goodies reside, doesn't officially come out until... you guessed it, 2008. I can play with the beta software all I like (and pay for the speed increase with the traditional beta instability), but there's no way that we're going to cut any of the code it produces live in any case until 2008 is officially supported.
But there's plenty of ideas I've come out with that can be implemented straight away, even if they're not the cool flashy impressiveness that the shiny new tech looks like being.
In particular, I've remembered again how keen I am to clean up our corporate website. It's not that the website itself is bad - actually, it's pretty good, if somewhat spartan, and the members area is totally useful for all our clients. It's just that we've never really got around to writing the actual content for the public area. And it's pretty much disgraceful for an IT company that's been in business for 11 years to have a website where 80% of the public pages still say "Under Construction" - and in the other three, I've discovered five broken links in the last half hour.
So, it's past 3am and I'm writing copy for the corporate website. Who says insomnia's bad for the general dedication of employees?
I'm really excited by a few of the emerging technologies in particular - WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation), Silverlight, and Sync Services to name just a few. My personal favourite has to be the massive (40-100x) performance enhancements to the development environment in response to a specific problem with a small percentage of projects that just happens to affect me and is the major cause of frustration in my life.
Of course, the few days after TechEd are always a bit of a culture shock with the return to reality. Visual Studio 2008, in which all these lovely goodies reside, doesn't officially come out until... you guessed it, 2008. I can play with the beta software all I like (and pay for the speed increase with the traditional beta instability), but there's no way that we're going to cut any of the code it produces live in any case until 2008 is officially supported.
But there's plenty of ideas I've come out with that can be implemented straight away, even if they're not the cool flashy impressiveness that the shiny new tech looks like being.
In particular, I've remembered again how keen I am to clean up our corporate website. It's not that the website itself is bad - actually, it's pretty good, if somewhat spartan, and the members area is totally useful for all our clients. It's just that we've never really got around to writing the actual content for the public area. And it's pretty much disgraceful for an IT company that's been in business for 11 years to have a website where 80% of the public pages still say "Under Construction" - and in the other three, I've discovered five broken links in the last half hour.
So, it's past 3am and I'm writing copy for the corporate website. Who says insomnia's bad for the general dedication of employees?
Thorough indoctrination?
(Anonymous) 2007-08-16 03:35 am (UTC)(link)Hope you had a great time being brainwashed... I mean brought up to speed with the lastest and greatest in Microsoft technologies... :P
You'll never guess what I'm doing this weekend.. Instead of not eating for 40 hour famine.. I'm not talking for 40 hours!!! I decided that that would be totally harder for me then not eating :P.... my Hubby is going to keep me accountable... we'll have to see how it all goes..
Anyways, hope you're having a good day.. even if you're totally tired :P...
E.
p.s. glad to see you alive online again :-)