MSDN & .NET, why so hard to keep up with.

MSDN website & magazine…Anything current???

A few years ago, well around 2000 - 2003 I was all against using another Microsoft product. These were the days of the anti-trust suites and post 9/11, Microsoft was still the bad guy. I became a die hard Linux guru and everything I implemented, all new projects at the company I worked for were presented to be built using Linux, it was easy and cheap. The desktop was still 100% dominated by Windows, Programming still had to be done in Windows. Spending much time and previously being a VB6 programmer and since moving on to C/C++, Perl, and PHP programming was back to the Windows desktop, it had been nearly 4 years since I had written a Windows form program in VB6, I had to find a new technology. I looked into .Net, 1.1 at the time. After using C-Style languages for a couple of years using VB.Net was even more obtuse. Moving from an event driven language to an object-oriented language was even more difficult but that is for another blog.

Fast Food & not getting what you ordered

Order Entry…It would be amazing if I could go through a drive through at Wendy’s and actually get what I ordered. This may sound like a petty complaint, but the numerous fries and sandwiches I have been shorted is ridiculous. The down side to all of this is, you never realize that you have been shorted until you are at home. I understand that most of the workers there are high school students and don’t really care, but this kind of thing gets annoying. I actually think that the Wendy’s located on Hal Greer Blvd in Huntington and also on RT 60 Barboursville have a higher percentage of drive through mishaps than correct orders.