William (Bill) Vaughn - Database Geek of the Week!
Bill Vaughn (of the "Hitchhikers Guide..." books fame) is this week's Database Geek of the Week. Bill has been in the computer biz quite a while, and his insights into early days at Microsoft, especially, are amazingly cool. He also has lots of experience working with beta products:
Doug: Have you written any code using the ObjectDataSource control in Visual Studio 2005?
Bill: Not yet. That’s targeted for next month. It’s a waste of my time to work with the new Visual Studio tools and toys too early in the product cycle. This is my 12th book, and I’ve been burned too many times by starting my research and writing too soon. We’re still in the “if the function isn’t working by now cut it off” stage of development, so we’re likely to see even more functions fall by the wayside. That will continue to happen right up until release to market if Microsoft follows its usual pattern.
Read the complete interview here.