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20050315 Tuesday March 15, 2005

So who's at this Developer Summit? I expected that this place would be filled with Java Developers and Experts that I know from conferences and open-source mailing lists. Not so - there's only a handful of guys I know. Here's the list of folks I actually recognize. I apologize to anyone I forgot.

  • Ben Galbraith
  • Dion Almaer
  • Jay Zimmerman
  • Matthew Schmidt
  • Richard Monson-Haefel
  • Rick Ross

After talking with a lot of Microsoftees (including the lady who came up the idea), this whole week seems pretty harmless. They want us to critique their products and strategies and tell them what they're doing wrong. We had fun ragging on some guys tonight about IE7 and TDD. They admitted that the test-driven development we're doing is very interesting to them. With any luck, we'll get to rag on IE7 enough so it's actually better than Firefox. Posted in Java at Mar 15 2005, 11:01:02 PM MST 1 Comment

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That sounds like an awesome opportunity to give MSFT some feedback that they might actually use. I wonder how many devs are there?

Posted by Elliott Back on March 16, 2005 at 01:03 AM MST #

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