Grumpy blogging

It occurred to me that I've made a lot of posts lately indicating that something "sucks" or "blows" or is "terrible" or something similarly negative. It seems I blog a lot when I have something to complain about.

I think this is what happens when you spend too much time in front of the LCD glow. I'm actually very happy, and enjoying life. It's just that in this profession, given my area of "expertise" (stop laughing), there isn't much to talk about right now. I did my fair share of Visual Studio and ASP.NET v2 cheerleading last summer while writing my book.

Actually, there it is... I think I figured it out by talking through it. Since I can't use Whidbey in production, I need to use VS 2003 and ASP.NET v1.1 so I can pay the bills. Indeed, that's enough to make anyone grumpy. Aside from mangling the crap out of my HTML, VS 2003 gets pissed and won't open a Web project if the web.config for it has some other IHttpHandlerFactory taking requests. You get the drive doesn't map to site error nonsense. Honestly, who thought that rooting your Web apps in IIS was a good idea? I'll never understand that.

But alas, it won't be beta forever, and this insanely long testing period will result in a nearly perfect product, right?

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  • > But alas, it won't be beta forever, and this insanely long testing period

    > will result in a nearly perfect product, right?



    Ha. You're funny :)



    (disclaimer: I'm expecting many wonderful and fantastic things from Whidbey. I am also, however, extremely confident that there'll be something in it that pisses me off no end. However, name a single peice of software _anywhere_ that doesn't :)

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