Mad About Developers!

I visited a bookstore last month and write an entry about what I see in the past. Apart from the book that I mentioned in my last entry, I also saw a new magazine in that bookstore actually and its name is “.NET Asia Magazine”

Anyway, I browse to the Microsoft Asia site today and found that an inaugural copy of that magazine can be downloaded for FREE. (Yee.... Yeah!)

When I walking in the bookstore last month, that magazine was attracting me not only it have the pic of Bill on the cover, but it have an attractive title “Mad About Developers”. I read the free copy this evening, and there're 2 impressive quotes :

• Asia is an exciting place for many reasons. There are a huge number of developers; in fact, there are more developers in Asia Pacific than Europe or America separately! So, Colin and the new team are there to step up and lead that charge," - by Chris Atkinson (Microsoft Vice-President for Sales and Marketing in the Asia Pacific and Greater China Region)
• “We do not hire unless we are 100 percent certain about the candidate. Not only was it expected that these guys could excel technically - that was taken as a given - but none of them came on board unless they could demonstrate complete and utter passion and commitment towards the team mission. That is, to win the hearts and minds of developers and make them wildly successful building web services and applications for the Microsoft platform. They have to be MAD about developers, MAD about creating great software and MAD about telling people how great their experiences will be when they adopt .NET tools!“ - by Colin Png (Microsoft Regional Director for Developer & Platform Evangelism)

I met Colin in the MVP Summit at Shanghai in 2002 and he's really cool. He respect our developers so much and spend almost 1 year in recruiting people in his team and interview over 100 people at the same time. If you want to know more about the developers and trends in Asia, check it out! ;-)