What is "his place?" His blog was not part of his job. At least not a big part. His job was Channel 9. Will he be all that hard to replace there? I doubt it.
Microsoft didn't make him an A-list blogger and they are not going to say "oh well now let's create an A-list blogger to replace Robert."
If you wanted to prove that people who post at/. see the world through wildly distorted glasses this would be the post to point them to. One only has to read Robert's blog to know that he is not leaving because he is upset with Microsoft or tired of promoting its products. He's tired of living so far from his son. That's probably something that a lot of the children who make up the mainstream of/. have trouble understanding.
No one knows how many bloggers work at Microsoft. It's clearly a lot more than 3,000 which is just the number of blogs at the msdn and technet blog sites. There arsofties blogging at MSN Spaces, Blogger and a host of other hosting sites as well as personally own hosting computers. And of course anyone who reads much knows that a lot of bloggers besides Robert are critical of the company at time in their blogs. But facts like that don't fit the/. mentality.
Blogging has made and continues to make a lot of changes at Microsoft. BTW can you name another company with as many bloggers? I doubt it.
If you are not going to use an IDE the only really useful choices are punch cards and writing the program out on paper first. I mean really if you are going to avoid an IDE it can only be because you are trying to get them to slow down and really think about what they are doing. Even EMACS is going to let them fall into the edit/compile quick loop problem. But it is going to do it without the helpful things that an IDE can do.
If you want to have students really learn than you want a tool that can help teach and that is what a good IDE does.
Why aren't you asking this question in a forum for teachers BTW? Something like the Advanced Placement Computer Science Teachers mailing list (http://lyris.collegeboard.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?en ter=ap-compsci) or the teacher forums at www.mainfunction.com for example?
You did the right thing. Some companies will trust you and some will not. I still have an account at one company I left 2 years ago. It's all above board and no one has a problem with it. Another company I worked for that laid me off let me keep my accounts for a week to finish up business. Some companies will shut you down right away. Those that do are confirming that you did he right thing my leaving. If they don't trust you it probably means they can't be trusted.
But I have also never taken chances. I always take home any papers or files that I think are mine before I give notice. I don't take chances with my own stuff. Everyone has personal files even if they don't admit it openly. You don't want to lose them.
At the same time I will not take home things that belong to the company. I take seriously my employement contracts.
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Robots are already consumer devices. Take a look at the Roomba and Scouba from iRobot for example.
Microsoft didn't make him an A-list blogger and they are not going to say "oh well now let's create an A-list blogger to replace Robert."
No one knows how many bloggers work at Microsoft. It's clearly a lot more than 3,000 which is just the number of blogs at the msdn and technet blog sites. There arsofties blogging at MSN Spaces, Blogger and a host of other hosting sites as well as personally own hosting computers. And of course anyone who reads much knows that a lot of bloggers besides Robert are critical of the company at time in their blogs. But facts like that don't fit the /. mentality.
Blogging has made and continues to make a lot of changes at Microsoft. BTW can you name another company with as many bloggers? I doubt it.
If you are not going to use an IDE the only really useful choices are punch cards and writing the program out on paper first. I mean really if you are going to avoid an IDE it can only be because you are trying to get them to slow down and really think about what they are doing. Even EMACS is going to let them fall into the edit/compile quick loop problem. But it is going to do it without the helpful things that an IDE can do. If you want to have students really learn than you want a tool that can help teach and that is what a good IDE does. Why aren't you asking this question in a forum for teachers BTW? Something like the Advanced Placement Computer Science Teachers mailing list (http://lyris.collegeboard.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?en ter=ap-compsci) or the teacher forums at www.mainfunction.com for example?
Sounds a whole lot like Windows Live Domains (http://domains.live.com/) to me. What's the big deal?
You did the right thing. Some companies will trust you and some will not. I still have an account at one company I left 2 years ago. It's all above board and no one has a problem with it. Another company I worked for that laid me off let me keep my accounts for a week to finish up business. Some companies will shut you down right away. Those that do are confirming that you did he right thing my leaving. If they don't trust you it probably means they can't be trusted. But I have also never taken chances. I always take home any papers or files that I think are mine before I give notice. I don't take chances with my own stuff. Everyone has personal files even if they don't admit it openly. You don't want to lose them. At the same time I will not take home things that belong to the company. I take seriously my employement contracts.