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I said this flippantly, but I was partially serious. It seems to me that 90% of the code that gets written in the world is written by 10% of the programmers. The other 90% of the programmers write the remaining 10% of the code (and the 10% then fix it.)

Check this amazing picture of our Universe   to see what the big almighty think about humans . ;-)

Roy mentioned iRider as an alternative browser.

My question is : Why paying for a browser ?

MyIE2 is free and it's doing more than just tab pages.

Hilarious

From the New York Times (7/13/2003), "Gilles Barbier's life-size installation 'Nursing Home,' in 'The American Effect' at the Whitney Museum, depicts naturally aged versions of Mr. Fantastic, Superman, Catwoman and others."

Hey where is Bill, he's a super-hero isn't it ? ;-))

MSDN team have changed the Search function.

From Sara

From Luke

I read the comment posted after Roy's blog.

I agreed with Roy, this is really a joke !

And I like the comment from Martin saying that it's only 1695 $ for a pre early registration instead of 2000$.

What a discounted price ;-)

And Martin is also right saying that you have to add the cost of the flight and the hotel. So we are talking about 4 000 $ for a conference on something which will become obsolete in two months.
And don't forget the medias, who attend almost everything they want for free.

It's like TechEd, I wished I could be there, but how I can justify the cost. Yes surely it's much better than the PDC, but when I said to my boss it was in Spain, he didn't believe I wanted to be there for serious work ;-))

In Ireland, the situation is very simple, nothing happens from MSFT !

I know for sure thy use PR people to filled recently the only conference they organized this year... for free !

Apparently nobody wanted to join, the initial price was 300 euros, and fortunatly for them, not for me, my company paid.
Even the food didn't worth the money (sandwiches !!)

I don't know for you but I just discover that I use less and less the Debugging functions in VB.Net.

No I am not a genius, I still make mistakes, write syntax errors or mispell a property.

The fact is that I structure more and more my code, applying a lot of N-tier architecture in my projects.

So I can trace now easily the bug, and thankfully, mos of the time, it's just a syntax error.

I also reduce the time wasted I used to have with the simple thing of launching a debugging session, search for something wrong and stop, to restart again.
It's incredible how much time the debugger take to launch, looks some time more like a diesel than a formula one.
I have just some good hope on the new 'Edit and Run' features in .Net 2.0

I can achieve to forget about debugging by adding more granularity. Not that I am really an expert in OOP, I don't really do enough on this subject, but using some data helpers like the MS Data Aplication Block seem to be a very productive idea.

Sure, maybe because my projects are 90% databse related, and not about some complex and obscure mathematical abstraction :-)