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About Me
Your host: Mike Pope from Seattle, Washington, U.S.A. My interests, as you can see
from this blog, include reading (too much, some might say), home improvement, various
kinds of music, and software. I'm also very interested both personally and professionally
in languages. I've studied German and Spanish, and for yucks I maintain a separate
blog devoted to evolving English. These days
I am learning to play guitar, which is a painfully slow process, even when I practice, which I don't do
as much as I should -- that is, "should." Fortunately, you don't have to be brilliant at guitar to enjoy playing
with others.
I have two college-age kids. (As of May 2008, I mean.) My son is studying physics and wants to be a teacher. My daughter is studying music at IU,
and wants to be a performer; she's a clarinetist.
I remarried in September 2007 to the lovely Sarah. As a result of this fortuitous union, I have two
stepdaughters. E is an 8th grader, is an avid reader, and can do amazing fantasy drawings
in Paint and PhotoShop. S is a 4th grader. She's an athlete, and lately sped through all of the Harry Potter books. |
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I'm a technical writer editor at Microsoft, where I work in the Developer Division, specifically
in the ASP.NET group. (Please see my disclaimer). I write and/or edit documentation and articles,
plus all the usual stuff that comes across a tech editor's desk.
I'm not a brilliant programmer, but I do enjoy it a great deal. I figure that not being a super-expert can actually help me do my
job, and my adventures in learning programming (and Visual Basic and C# and ASP.NET and .NET and AJAX and ...) have resulted in various blog posts here.
In 2002, I wrote a book about Web
Matrix. The book is aimed at novice programmers who want to learn Web programming.
(Amazon, B&N). That
effort was actually the starting point for this blog, which I began as an exercise. ("How hard could it be?")
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About this blog
I created this blog not only to have a place to journal about whatever manner of topics,
but as an exercise in working with ASP.NET and Web
Matrix. It runs on Windows XP Windows 2003 Server and IIS 5 6 with MSDE (Microsoft Data Engine, a limited
version of SQL Server) as its data source. The code was written in Visual Basic .NET.
I play around with rewriting the blog at odd moments. Since I began that process, ASP.NET has lapped me, like 2-1/2 times (we're up to version
3.5). Even so, some day Real Soon Now there will be a version 2.0 of this blog.
Blog Source Code
(13 September 2003) The source for this is now available for download. Go to
the download page for more information.
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