Random .NET Ramblings

By way of Kurt Shintaku and the Swiss IT Professional and TechNet Blog here is a cool way to know what is going on with Power Management on your Windows 7 box.

Windows 7 – Power Management Reports

So I hope you have heard of it but I wanted to make sure you know just how easy it can be to become a BizSpark startup… all you need to do is email me woodyp (put an at here) microsoft (yes a dot here) com and I will get you started within 1 working day. What do you get you may ask all kinds of free software from Microsoft and once you have your application working and are ready for some exposure we will help you with that as well. If you have any questions at all about the program please let me know.

Just yesterday I commented on twitter how I dreaded giving a 101 talk on the .NET Framework and I was pounced on in twitter and email with comments about how needed that type of content is desired. Like many people once I know something I tend to think everyone knows it… I need to break myself of that!

So today I found a two (new to me) sites that Microsoft has for getting stated…

• Ramp Up
  • This is new part of MSDN that has some quite complete content and helps you track a learning plan.
• www.msdev.com
  • This is a site targeting solution providers but anyone can use the content

Update: SI forgot one of the more amazing offers Microsoft has going right now. it’s called Jumpstart and you get 60 days of free hosting, free Expression Web and Visual Web Developer 2008 Express.

Well no one except Jas (the guy who hired me in to Microsoft) noticed that I have now been at Microsoft for 4 years... WOW I know there were several people who did not expect me to make it this long and to be honest I did not expect to make it this long but now it looks like I may make it for my desired 5 years. Just to review I started at MS as a Developer Evangelist where I got to help support the local Microsoft community as well as reached out to non-Microsoft communities. This was a great job I loved helping get support from Microsoft, this year I took on the challenge of the Architect Evangelist position (I call my self a Technology Evangelist as I self identify more as a developer). In this job I am more focused on working to make early adoption of Microsoft technology successful and then evangelizing the use of the solution. In my option I have not done an outstanding job in this position, it kills me as I want to be the best at anything I do! This coming year I will be looking to be outstanding in this job or what ever they have me doing.

What I have learned in 4 year:

• Most people think Microsoft is something it’s not!
• Big companies can bring out the best and worst in people
• To succeed you have to self promote
• Having big company benefits make wives happy
• I love to deliver not just work processes
• and more that I don’t want to make too public ;)

I helped Suresh Sreedharan a ISV Architect Evangelist execute the first Windows 7 Incubation Week. I will not go in to at much as we had a real writer Tamara Chuang stop by on the last day of the event and she did a great story read more…

What 4 developers did with Windows 7 in 1 week