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title: ".Net Rocks Show Do's And Don't's"
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2003/6/10/net-rocks-show-dos-and-donts.md"
canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2003/6/10/net-rocks-show-dos-and-donts.html"
published: "2003-06-10T05:25:00"
updated: "2003-06-10T05:25:00"
tags: [".Net Original"]
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "cool. Chris Sells is on .Net Rocks : \" Chris talks with Carl and Mark about Longhorn, Working at Microsoft, his book with Don Box, his new Windows Forms book, dealing with Printer Margins, passing command-line arguments…"
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# .Net Rocks Show Do's And Don't's

By Roy Osherove June 10, 2003 In [.Net Original](https://osherove.com/blog/category/net-original)

**Historical article** · Originally published June 10, 2003; technical details may be outdated.

cool. Chris Sells is on [.Net Rocks](http://www.franklins.net/dotnetrocks.asp):

"_Chris talks with Carl and Mark about Longhorn, Working at Microsoft, his book with Don Box, his new Windows Forms book, dealing with Printer Margins, passing command-line arguments to auto-deployed applications, linking assemblies, the new Matrix movie, what's new in Ghengis, and answers the age old question "to GAC or not to GAC?"_"

I must admit that the last .Net rocks show did not rock at all. Unfortunately, I couldn't understand much of what was being said and the conversation did not flow at all. Perhaps this should be a lesson in "how to plan for a good rasio interview":

-    Get people that can be understood by your audience
-    Make sure you have something to speak with them about, other than playing bass guitar
-    Make sure that after your guest talks long and hard about something with a very bad accent, that you don't just pause, and say "Interesting." and move right along to the next subject.

This may sound a bit harsh, but this is a listening show, and one of the few traits people talking on it should have is...well,  understandability.

Update:

I should just mention that I'm a big fan of the show, this is all out of love. really.

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