Bring the smile back

I love messages like these especially when they come out of blue. I was just checking about:config in Firefox for some settings when this message came.

How Good A Developer You Are?

Started my day with reading Codding Horror feeds on my reader and found interesting article which introduced us to his new company stackoverflow.com. Here is introduction

A little over a month ago, I announced that I was quitting my job. But there was also something else I didn't fully announce.

But I refuse to become a full-time blogger. I think that's a cop-out. If I look at the people I respect most in the industry, the people I view as role models-- Paul Graham, Joel Spolsky, Steve Yegge, Eric Sink, Rich Skrenta, Marc Andreesen, Wil Shipley, Douglas Crockford, Scott Guthrie -- they all have one thing in common. They're not just excellent writers and communicators. They build stuff, too. The world has enough vapid commentary blogs. I want to build stuff-- and talk about it. I have a little micro-ISV startup opportunity I'll be working on, a web property I'm building out with one of the above people. I'm not ready to announce the details yet, but when I do, you'll read about it here.

The "building stuff", as you helped us determine, is stackoverflow.com. It's a small company Joel Spolsky and I are founding together.

What interest me was his role models list. Out of Nine names mentioned I only knew the last one - Scott Guthrie. How's that for a developer!

I added most of them in my reader (thou' not all as I found some of them not for me at this moment.)

See how many of them you know.

Error of the day

"The server is unwilling to process this request"

Just about to end my day's work when I got this error while working with LDAP/Directory services. It made me smile - so thanks Microsoft.