Rants Tagged with “MVP”
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I am proud to announce that Microsoft hasn't come to their senses yet and decided to renew my MVP status for another year. Being an MVP has been a great experience for me and I really appreciate the program. Five years into the program and I couldn't be happier.
I am very happy to report that I've been renewed as an MVP again. I think this is my fourth year as MVP and it has been really great so far! Thanks to everyone in the community for supporting me in continuing to be an MVP!
While I haven't blogged about the MVP summit before, I have decided to mention a couple of things that have happened at the MVP summit. None of this is secret or private Microsoft information and I am not breaking any NDA's. These are just some reflections on a week on campus.
- The summit is about connections, not information. I come to the summit more to visit with fellow MVPs, my MVP lead as well as some exposure to the product teams.
- This year's summit was extraordinarily planned. I think Microsoft wanted to treat us all special, and I think (with few exceptions) they succeeded immeasurably.
- Much of what I saw this week was available in the March 2007 VS Orcas CTP. It is available as a VPC so I suggest everyone go get it and have a gander. Now is the time to laud/complain. Don't wait until release to find out your favorite feature isn't working or your most annoying bug wasn't fixed.
- While LINQ was well demonstrated, don't forget that Orcas is also about the ADO.NET v.Next (e.g. Entity Framework), XML Literals, language enhancements, better intellisense, and .NET 3.0 designers (WCF and WPF).
- To everyone I met, it was a pleasure and I am apt to have forgotten names and faces by next MVP summit. For that I apologize. Father time is indeed catching up with me.
I just heard through the grapevine that Brendon Schwartz was awarded an MVP for his work with ASP.NET (and no doubt the Atlanta Community). Congratulations, you've earned it.
I am leaving tomorrow morning to go to Redmond for the MVP Summit. It will be a good time to catch up with some of my favorite MS'ers, as well as MVP's. I have to say, after the long summer we seem to be having here in Atlanta, I am looking forward to 50 degree nights. If you are going to be in Redmond this week and you read this, kick me an e-mail as i'll see what I can do to connect up during the week!
I have gotten through the hoops to be able to use the new MVP Logo. I have to say its a nice change from the old logo which was a bit antiquated. I really like it:
