Dave Winer has transferred the copyright to RSS 2.0 to Harvard Law School as well as opened it up for more public feedback. This is good because RSS 2.0 is gaining in popularity but has come under fire lately for being controlled by Dave alone. Thanks, Dave.

In spite of the mention of my site in this article, I consider it more of a "rent" then a "sell". : )

First companies move jobs overseas and now higher primates can program…

I went with Erica Wiechers (.NET Show heart throb) to visit MS Studios today. Ostensively we were there to preview the Applied XML Developer Conference videos, some of which Erica will be turned into MSDN TV episodes. However, as long as we were there, Bob Snyder gave us the nickel tour.

The front entry was even more secure than the normal MS buildings, being encased in wire fencing and not yielding to my badge (we had to be let in from the inside). Once in, it was a big building with lots of open space and fun decorations. I got to see several blueprints of famous imaginary places, e.g. the spaceship from Lost in Space, the Addams Family house and the island from Gilligan’s Island. I got to see the two green rooms where “talent” gets ready in the full locker rooms, then relaxes on the coach ’til it’s their turn (although neither room is green). I got to see all of the studios, including standing on one of BillG’s markers, seeing the set where he interviewed with Larry King and the other set where he recorded his antitrust testimony. I also got to see the set for the .NET Show, which looks like the inside of half of a giant bowl, so that they can blend in custom backgrounds, both physical and logical. I go to see all kinds of cool a/v routing and mixing equipment, putting my one little PC attached to my home theater system seem so pathetic in comparison. I even got to see some live footage of Steve Ballmer that they were filming that day (man, he gets excited when he speaks : ).

In general, I’ve been getting to see and do a lot of cool stuff here at MS. Recommended.

"One of the most surprising results of the 2003 InfoWorld Security Survey is that more respondents trust Microsoft to deliver companywide enterprise OS security than they do any other vendor." Nice to know folks trust us about *something*. : )

"This post includes C# definitions of many common Win32APIs and their related data structures. It does not include all Win32 APIs and it is missing all #define constants. It was created by a rather complex semi-automatic process. If I get enough requests I will release the source for the process used to create this file." [staff.develop.com/candera/weblog2]

Eric Sink claims to be the ”.NET Redneck,” complete with cardboard cutout:

Shawn Morrissey [shawnmor @ microsoft.com]
Taken at Gnomedex
July 15th, 2003

"Windows Forms Programming in C# by Chris Sells This book is written to help experienced programmers who already possess a basic understanding of Visual C# .NET and the .NET Framework to master the Windows Forms toolkit. Contents include discussion of the core elements of Windows Forms (with concise examples and graphic depictions of user interface features in action), as well as pitfalls to avoid and solutions to common problems. Windows Forms Programming in C# is the seventh book to publish in Addison-Wesley's Microsoft .NET Development Series. Chris Sells has been touring the U.S. as one of Microsoft's Software Legends. (Publishing August 2003)"