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title: "A Star Is Born (Emotional - That's me!)"
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2003/4/5/a-star-is-born-emotional-thats-me.md"
canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2003/4/5/a-star-is-born-emotional-thats-me.html"
published: "2003-04-05T19:42:00"
updated: "2003-04-05T19:42:00"
tags: []
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "I did it! My first print article has been published! I go down to B&N today and there is my article listed on the cover of . NET Developer's Journal . Sure enough, I turn to page 26 and after getting past my picture,…"
usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)."
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# A Star Is Born (Emotional - That's me!)

By Roy Osherove April 5, 2003

**Historical article** · Originally published April 5, 2003; technical details may be outdated.

_I did it! My first print article has been published! I go down to B&N today and there is my article listed on the cover of ._[_NET Developer's Journal_](http://www.sys-con.com/dotnet/)_. Sure enough, I turn to page 26 and after getting past my picture, there it is-) Developing GUI Applications Using MC++. Check it out! This is a_ [_great issue_](http://www.sys-con.com/dotnet/) _:_

\[[Sam Gentile](http://dotnetweblogs.com/sgentile/)\]

**Congratulations**! I'll be sure to browse through this ASAP :)

Note: Albeit The title of this post might suggest otherwise, I only know sam from his blog. That said, I'm still excited for him. It's great to see someone's first steps into a new territory, or to a new level. Having that someone be part of this little community we (are starting to)have here, well, that just makes it all the more exciting :)


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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).

### Social

- X: https://x.com/royosherove
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/osherove/

### Contact

- Contact form: https://forms.gle/jQSx5KoXvrVA1JCK7

### 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/