Chris

@FranciscoNoriega much better choice, and throw it in your DropBox, you'll never loose it, and it will always be with you

I hear ya

so your mainly web then?

client development as in desktop apps?

@DanGrossman ok, which IDE do you use when you client develop?

@DanGrossman there is SharpDevelop, but yes you are correct

@DanGrossman not a fan of .NET?

KDevelop and Anjuta didn't impress me

yes, it's a UI framework, but they have an IDE that you can write C++ in

I wonder how many programmers wouldn't be able to code if you told them to do it all in notepad

I found a really cool IDE called Qt from Nokia and I really like it

A lot of people have Microsoft blinders on sometimes and they don't realize there are thriving communities outside of that community

@DanGrossman in response to your, "rest of the programming world". I've been helping a friend with some Linux C++ programming, he's not a programmer, and I've been really enjoying it.

i read lots online from former employees, and lots of them recent have gone over to facebook, they recant the same thing, frustration

@DanGrossman I C. I always wondered how much middle management ran the place

they emailed me in 2008 it was very obscure. I went to Van for an interview, they did ask good questions, but it felt more like a psych exam

@DanGrossman out of curiosity which team were you on and why did you decide to leave?

the last time I chatted with humans it was on dualboot.net

good lord that's a long list

they should leave code names as the product name

I wish they change "ADO.NET Data Services" or is it now "WCF Data Services" back to Astoria

fair enough

@DanGrossman I take it your not a fan?

@DanGrossman isn't that what twitter is for?

@RyanHayes don't forget, IE was created, then five years past between versions 6 and 7

@BrianRBondy yea, I heard a rogers commercial yesterday that touted the latest phones, not one mention of Windows Phone 7, I called head office and complained

@FranciscoNoriega true, we use OnTime and PlasticSCM where I work

My issue with IE is the way it switches tabs. I use chrome because I'm a perceptual CTRL+Click user. I have tons of tabs open, and Chrome has never let me down

@DanGrossman umm... sure... maybe when they write the OS in Silverlight

COM is never going away, it's unfortunate really, but it's large part of Windows

@BrianRBondy the fact you NEED to download it bothers me

@RyanHayes it makes me wonder if Silverlight wasn't also created so people would stop writing ActiveX controls

actually the one thing I'd love is that dyson bladeless fan dyson.com/fans

I think it's creative. there are people who get design and people who don't. I'm the guy who tries

reminds me of 37signals

I tried to learn CSS once, I ran screaming from the room (this was back when IE7 was a standard)

I must say, looking at your site, which is nice, I'm so not a CSS person

anyone who has a FB profile already gave that up

anyone else alive???

too late to decide if I want to open that page

yea, does anyone out there still use IE, or should that team just stop working?

do you want my blood type too?

you want to go for coffee or something?

and blog and portfolio, makes me feel unaccomplished

you have a nice site

I take it back, it wasn't rude, that was my shock talking.. is this you dangrossman.info

you work at SO?

maybe i'm just not one of those, "smart and gets things done" people

tabernack

@DanGrossman yes, but that doesn't answer the question, "user name to IP " button