I recently posted two
.NET related blog entries - one on ASP.NET request validation, the other on
framework version numbers. As usual, I got a couple of comments about the posts
- no surprise there. What did surprise me was that both posts had comments
from Microsoft employees (BradA and ScottGu). Two comments about
this:
1) It's unbelievably cool that
some of the Microsoft crew are venturing forth into the community and addressing
real developer questions and issues. This is really unprecented access to people
who have both knowledge and influence.
2) Despite what some of my friends would say about the
size of my ego, I have no illusions that these guys actually subscribe to my
blog. So I'm guessing that they are actually reading weblogs.asp.net aggregate
feed. To that I can only say - wow. That's a lot of stuff to slog through, and a
big time suck. I can barely keep up with the feeds on my blogroll, never mind
the rest of them.
So hats off to those guys. That kind of stuff will
score big points in the developer community.