---
title: "Congratulations Robert!"
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2003/10/1/congratulations-robert.md"
canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2003/10/1/congratulations-robert.html"
published: "2003-10-01T23:05:00"
updated: "2003-10-01T23:05:00"
tags: ["Blogging", "Off Topic"]
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "Every once in while we all get to have our “Special Day” where everything is just handy dandy, and all our hard work comes back to haunt us in a good way. Such is today for Robert McLaws . He's full of announcements:…"
usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)."
license: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
---

# Congratulations Robert!

By Roy Osherove October 1, 2003 In [Blogging](https://osherove.com/blog/category/blogging), [Off Topic](https://osherove.com/blog/category/off-topic)

**Historical article** · Originally published October 1, 2003; technical details may be outdated.

Every once in while we all get to have our “Special Day” where everything is just handy dandy, and all our hard work comes back to haunt us in a good way. Such is today for [Robert McLaws](http://weblogs.asp.net/rmclaws/). He's full of announcements:

[Big News #1: He's an MVP!](http://weblogs.asp.net/rmclaws/posts/30094.aspx)

[Big News #2: New Community Site](https://osherove.com/rmclaws/posts/30098.aspx)

[Big News #3: New Home for Patch Day Review!](https://osherove.com/rmclaws/posts/30101.aspx)

And of course, today he's launched his new product:

[GenX.Net](http://www.interscapeusa.com/)

Congratulations Robert, from all my heart. You deserve all that's coming to you. Take this day and enjoy it to the fullest, because tomorrow its back to knuckle breaking work again. You're doing a great job, and you're an asset to this community (and all others you're involved in). Congratu-freakin'-lations dude!

## More in Blogging

[All posts in Blogging](https://osherove.com/blog/category/blogging)

- Oct 5, 2003

    ### [Scoble on .Net Rocks? Give me a break..](https://osherove.com/blog/2003/10/5/scoble-on-net-rocks-give-me-a-break.html)

- Oct 2, 2003

    ### [Two good blogs: Hiring Technical People, Managing Product Development](https://osherove.com/blog/2003/10/2/two-good-blogs-hiring-technical-people-managing-product-deve.html)

- Sep 26, 2003

    ### [Pay for my PDC?](https://osherove.com/blog/2003/9/26/pay-for-my-pdc.html)

- Sep 22, 2003

    ### [Nice blog](https://osherove.com/blog/2003/9/22/nice-blog.html)


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## About the author

**Roy Osherove**: Senior Solutions Architect at AWS working on AI for production and AI-driven development; author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership, with about 20 years of consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery.

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- [RobotPaper](https://robotpaper.ai/): This blog: AI patterns and anti-patterns, AI and coding agents, and engineering leadership.
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