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Sharing a tiny career milestone.

Working at Microsoft has been GREAT. I’ve been here for 8 years.

But it’s hard too.

For a decade before I joined Microsoft, I ran the show. Here, I’m just a peon, and not being on campus often means not being “inside” which creates several barriers to success. 

There is the politics, the constant org changes, the haters spanning your blog, the travel. (Not to mention the cut in pay :)

Today I had a bit of a cool thing happen.

Last night I installed Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 – which I’m VERY excited about.

 

Today I fired it up to start working on some new videos and the top item in the “Latest News” page was an item about my latest video. 

Trivial, i know, but my spirits valued thy boost !!

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  1. vikram avatar

    Congrats to you...

    vikram — October 14, 2009 11:15 AM
  2. Aykut avatar

    You have problems with your website. It is mostly very slow and sometimes times out. Anyway, the XSS video was great.

    Aykut — October 14, 2009 12:42 PM
  3. James Skemp avatar

    Congrats!

    But I really comment to second @Aykut - every page load seems to have a good bit of lag.

    Seeing as how it has Firebug, first load in Firefox = 52 seconds before I started seeing any activity and at ~59s the page was finished loading.

    Clicking on a link to another story (http://misfitgeek.com/blog/community/my-move-to-graffiti/), 38s until I see anything and 1m until the page is finished loading.

    ~James

    James Skemp — October 14, 2009 12:49 PM
  4. Joe Cravens avatar

    Congratulations on 8 years.

    Joe Cravens — October 14, 2009 1:13 PM
  5. Anthony avatar

    Your blog is one of the best out there, keep it up :-)

    Anthony — October 14, 2009 1:18 PM
  6. Mike avatar

    Always very exciting to be able to celebrate successes, no matter how trivial. Congrats! I'm looking forward to Beta 2 as well!

    Mike — October 14, 2009 1:29 PM
  7. riceboyler avatar

    So, VS2010 Beta 2, huh? Any nuggets of wisdom as to when the general public might get a taste? Please don't say we have to wait until PDC09...

    riceboyler — October 14, 2009 2:02 PM
  8. Chandra avatar

    Your XSS Cross Site Scripting video was outstanding! I would be happy if you can publish the code as well!!!

    Chandra — October 14, 2009 3:32 PM
  9. Darren Stahlhut avatar

    Keep up the good work Joe, love your blog posts.

    As a developer I really appreciate the sacrifices that guys like yourself make in order to work "inside" MS.

    While my work as a developer benefits one corporation, your work benefits the entire dev community.

    Darren Stahlhut — October 14, 2009 5:44 PM
  10. Adam Wright avatar

    Congratulations Joe! I'm sure it has been tough, but I'm sure you have learned a ton as well. You are not a peon to those of us who follow your blog and twitter account. You are definitley someone for aspiriing and professional developers to look up to. Again keep up the great work and personally, I'm jealous of your getting to install VS 2010 beta 2. Again congrats!

    Adam Wright — October 14, 2009 6:57 PM
  11. Gary W Braden avatar

    Trival?? No way.. It's minor victories that keep us going AND I am stoked for all the socko! new videos you will be creating!!!

    Gary W Braden — October 14, 2009 7:04 PM
  12. rtpHarry avatar

    Congratulations Joe!

    rtpHarry — October 15, 2009 3:51 AM
  13. Vishal R. Joshi avatar

    Dude, whether or not your videos appear on the start page of VS 2010 or not you are very valued... Imagine my blog appears no where and my spirit is still high... :-)

    -Vishal

    Vishal R. Joshi — October 15, 2009 4:40 AM
  14. Mehfuz Hossain avatar

    Great to hear Joe !!

    Mehfuz Hossain — October 15, 2009 5:13 AM
  15. .Net Freelancer avatar

    I hope VS 2010 will be much faster than VS 2008. VS 2008 has been pretty sluggish comparing to VS 2005 for large web applications..

    .Net Freelancer — October 15, 2009 5:52 AM
  16. another joe  avatar

    Don't complain! I would almost die to work for Microsoft. The recession has hit me now and I've becoming redundant. It sucks to be unemployed!

    another joe — October 15, 2009 7:47 AM
  17. Joe Stagner avatar

    Very true Joe - best of luck !!

    Joe Stagner — October 15, 2009 7:58 AM
  18. Courtney avatar

    Hang in there bro, it is tough all over. :)

    Courtney — October 15, 2009 10:04 AM
  19. Ramesh Patel avatar

    I have been watching your vidoes from starting of my career. They are explaining every thing a deverloper need.

    Keep up with such work...

    Ramesh Patel — October 15, 2009 10:32 AM
  20. Graham Cummings avatar

    Hey Joe, I've followed your blogs and video posts for quite a while now, here in the UK, and I've learned a great deal about ASP.Net in the process. In fact, all the stuff I've learned from your informative blogs and videos helped me greatly in my first ASP.Net job, and they continue to aid me in my current .Net role. Keep up the great work, and you've made a real contribution to my own personal learning (and to a certain extent, my career), without evening knowing it! In particular, your videos are the easiest to follow and absorb.

    Don't worry about the haters; these guys probably spend 6 months trying to get a line of code to work in Java, instead of using .Net (cue the lashback from Java programmers!)

    Keep up the great work, it DOES make a difference!

    Graham Cummings — October 15, 2009 10:37 AM
  21. Joe Stagner avatar

    Thansk Guys - and Graham, nice when someone else starts a sotrm here:):)

    Joe Stagner — October 15, 2009 11:06 AM
  22. Jamie Townsend avatar

    Love all your work, keep it up !

    All the best from UK

    Jamie Townsend — October 15, 2009 11:43 AM
  23. andrew avatar

    Thanks for being honest and leaving yourself vulnerable to make others feel better by letting them know that they're not alone in the common struggles that we all face.

    andrew — October 15, 2009 1:22 PM
  24. Michael Salisbury avatar

    You are a great help, and I really like all of your video's, oh did I say, You are the Best!!! Thanks for all your help ....

    Michael Salisbury — October 15, 2009 5:10 PM
  25. Joe Stagner avatar

    Wow - you guys are making be blush.

    But THANKS !

    Joe Stagner — October 15, 2009 5:15 PM
  26. Bryan Whyte avatar

    Not sure if Milestone might be the correct term :)

    Milestones can add significant value to project scheduling. They were created by APPLE and have since became popular. Milestones allow little freedom in project management and give no allocation if it is on schedule or not. They follow no critical path and are added only to add complexity to a project.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milestone_(project_management)

    Bryan Whyte — October 16, 2009 2:22 PM
  27. William Steele avatar

    Congrats, keep up the great work, Joe! ;-)

    William Steele — October 17, 2009 6:04 AM
  28. Mark Henley avatar

    Great!

    I'm glad things are going well, But I have to admit I miss seeing you. The Great Wall is still here in Portland, ME

    and we recently added a Famous Dave's BBQ!

    Your videos continue to show me things I

    didn't know I didn't know!

    Please keep it up!

    You come to Portland I'm buying!

    Mark

    Mark Henley — October 17, 2009 5:24 PM
  29. Abel Braaksma avatar

    About the 2010 Beta 2: is there any (insight) news when non-employees, i.e., everybody, can have a look? It's been a long long time since Beta 1 and I'd love to try the new beta.

    Any findings on the Beta that you'd like to share with us?

    Abel Braaksma — October 19, 2009 5:08 AM
  30. Abel Braaksma avatar

    Update to my last comment:

    The actual date for the beta 2 for the public is now known (21st Oct 2009), see my post that tries to summarize the roadmap (and estimates the unknown): www.undermyhat.org/.../visual-studio-2

    Abel Braaksma — October 19, 2009 6:40 AM
  31. Vamsi Subhash avatar

    Hi Joe,

    Thanks for your videos. In my final year I have the opportunity of getting into Microsoft when it comes for placement. But I think I should be good with programming as i am now busy with other interesting topics like Finite Automata and Compiler Design.

    Once again thanks Joe, you are very helpful and helped me get out the benefits of Dreamspark. Now i am the Microsoft Student Partner (MSP) of my College.

    Vamsi Subhash — October 20, 2009 2:59 AM
  32. NFL007 avatar

    congratulations to you !

    best wishes!

    NFL007 — October 20, 2009 11:08 PM
  33. CodeCmdr avatar

    Hey Joe, don't let it get you down. Remember, you can't enjoy a sunny day without some rainy one's in between.

    Keep up the awesome video tutorials on ASP.net. I thought I knew alot, but you're really helping me bring it full circle! As an aspiring programmer about to start his career, those videos are helping me choose a path I want to specialize in: ASP.Net!

    CodeCmdr — October 21, 2009 11:53 AM

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