---
title: "Developer Dawg"
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2003/4/11/developer-dawg.md"
canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2003/4/11/developer-dawg.html"
published: "2003-04-11T22:19:00"
updated: "2003-04-11T22:19:00"
tags: ["Off Topic"]
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "Woohoo ! Can you say \"I Ported from VB6 to VB.Net And All I Got Was This Lousy Poster\" ? p.s I'm kidding . it's not at all lousy. I'm proud( in a very geeky sort of way)"
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/"
---

# Developer Dawg

By Roy Osherove April 11, 2003 In [Off Topic](https://osherove.com/blog/category/off-topic)

**Historical article** · Originally published April 11, 2003; technical details may be outdated.

[Woohoo](http://dotnetweblogs.com/kpleas/posts/5457.aspx)!

Can you say  "I Ported from VB6 to VB.Net And All I Got Was This Lousy Poster" ?

![](https://osherove.com/img/ext/www.keithpleas.com_dawgs.jpg)

p.s

I'm **kidding**. it's not at all lousy. I'm proud( in a very geeky sort of way)

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[All posts in Off Topic](https://osherove.com/blog/category/off-topic)

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    ### [I'm A Mort!](https://osherove.com/blog/2003/4/11/im-a-mort.html)

- Mar 31, 2003

    ### [Bloody cool: Share Keyboard/Mouse between computers](https://osherove.com/blog/2003/3/31/bloody-cool-share-keyboardmouse-between-computers.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.

### Sites

- [RobotPaper](https://robotpaper.ai/): This blog: AI patterns and anti-patterns, AI and coding agents, and engineering leadership.
- [osherove.com](https://osherove.com): Roy's personal site. Author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership; consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery, plus about 20 years of blog posts.
- [The Art of Unit Testing](https://www.artofunittesting.com): The Art of Unit Testing, 3rd Edition (Manning): readable, maintainable, trustworthy unit tests, plus TDD workshops in C#, JavaScript, Java and Kotlin.
- [5whys.com](https://www.5whys.com): Roy's writing on software team leadership: self-organizing teams, surviving chaos, learning mode and the Elastic Leadership model.
- [Pipeline Driven](https://pipelinedriven.org): Continuous delivery and DevOps practices: build patterns, pipeline-friendly testing, DevOps metrics and enterprise DevOps.
- [Elastic Leadership](https://www.elasticleadership.com): Elastic Leadership, Roy's framework for software team leaders (survival, learning and self-organizing modes).

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### License

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/