NancyFX

… the readers of my blog, that a while back I got an invitation to join the Elegant Code tribe and start blogging there. I humbly accepted the invitation. Before I did I gave a lot of thought to what I would do with this blog. Would I cross-post ... [More] new contents, partition the contents between the two blogs or perhaps nuke this one entirely? What I decided was that I would keep this alive and cross-post all contents. Well, needless to say I failed with this. I started looking at cross-posting plugins for Windows Live Writer but I didn’t quite find one I liked and the one I did try did not work at all. So, fortunately I’ve only had the time to make two posts on Elegant Code, one being an introduction of myself. This means the damage is not too bad! I will bring the second post over here and for future posts I will simply manually cross-post. I’ve got a bunch of blog posts in the pipe and with a bit of luck some of them will escape my obsessive need for perfection (working on that) for my posts and actually make it into the wild soon. Permalink | Leave a comment  » [Less]

About two months ago I received an email from Doug Turnure, a program manager with the Visual Studio team at Microsoft, primarily focusing on customer feedback and adoption. He told me that Microsoft wanted to thank me for your contribution to the ... [More] Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 product releases, by sending me a small gift. I have been told that this is given out by nomination from team members and that this was for my continuous stream of feedback and crazy suggestions that I provided to the Managed Extensibility Framework during the course it grew from early previews to the RTM version that is now shipped. A couple of days ago FedEx contacted me to inform me that they had a package they were trying to deliver. Apparently I had to be home between 10am and 4pm since that is when they do deliveries – something that might sound a bit trivial, but believe me it is not when you are on vacation, the sun is shining – and most of all – you have kids! It took a couple of days but they finally managed to make a delivery attempt when someone was home. Here are some pictured of the contents of the package   It is small box with a letter from S. Somasegar, Senior Vice President of the Developer Division at Microsoft, on the inside. In addition to that there is a class cube, with a side length of 6cm (about 2,36 inches) with text etched into different depths of the class. The Visual Studio 2010 logo and the .NET Framework logos are present, along with an inscription that says “Thank you for the lasting contribution you have made to Microsoft Visual Studio”. All in all I think it is a pretty nice looking award and I feel honored that I was nominated, and accepted to receive it! Thank you Microsoft, both for the award but also for taking the time to listen to a single developers feedback during your development cycle of a new technology like the Managed Extensibility Framework. Especially thanks to Glenn Block whom was more than happy to interact with the community at every opportunity he got – both on and off business hours! Permalink | Leave a comment  » [Less]