I always find it interesting to share OOP concepts with developers that are brand new to the concepts. Recently, after explaining how to achieve polymorphism through classes and interfaces, a student in one of my classes literally shouted out: “Using OOP means I have to know what I am developing...

From Seattle to Phoenix to Albuquerque... Tomorrow I am training a group of 16 people on how to use VB.NET. I did not choose to fly to Albuquerque. I drove the distance. As a result, at about the half-way point (Holbrook, AZ) I stop for gasoline and guess who I run into? My father!!! He was on the road...