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title: "Small cool news"
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canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2004/1/7/small-cool-news.html"
published: "2004-01-07T14:36:00"
updated: "2004-01-07T14:36:00"
tags: ["Off Topic"]
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "Ah. Some interesting days have just passed. I'll blog later about what I've been going through. But today I discovered two cool things: Thanks to Kent , My Author Page on MSDN is ready . Ain't that a classy picture (my…"
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# Small cool news

By Roy Osherove January 7, 2004 In [Off Topic](https://osherove.com/blog/category/off-topic)

**Historical article** · Originally published January 7, 2004; technical details may be outdated.

Ah. Some interesting days have just passed. I'll blog later about what I've been going through. But today I discovered two cool things:

1. Thanks to [Kent](http://weblogs.asp.net/ksharkey/archive/2004/01/05/47730.aspx),  [My Author Page on MSDN is ready](http://msdn.microsoft.com/asp.net/community/authors/royosherove/default.aspx). Ain't that a classy picture (my wife says I make a funny face in it)
2.   [Raymond Chen](http://weblogs.asp.net/oldnewthing/) answered my question as to [why the Copy File dialog sometimes counts **up** instead of down](http://weblogs.asp.net/oldnewthing/archive/2004/01/06/47937.aspx). (lots of good comments on that one. Hey, I have dibs on that cool post idea! ;-)
3. Kevin gives a good overview on [how to make IIS 6 ready for team development](http://weblogs.asp.net/kevinha/archive/2004/01/06/48077.aspx)
4. [Sara Ford](http://weblogs.asp.net/saraford/), VS Software Design Engineer, blogs about her accessibility experiences with VS .NET.Of particular interest is her article on [keyboard, high contrast and Assistive Technology compatibility](http://weblogs.asp.net/saraford/archive/2004/01/06/48083.aspx) 

5. A new spec is in town: [WS-Eventing](http://msdn.microsoft.com/webservices/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/dnglobspec/html/ws-eventing.asp) (publish\\subscribe model for web services)

## More in Off Topic

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

- Jan 9, 2004

    ### [Weekend reading: Acm Turing Award Lectures : The First Twenty Years, 1966 to 1985](https://osherove.com/blog/2004/1/9/weekend-reading-acm-turing-award-lectures-the-first-twenty-y.html)

- Jan 9, 2004

    ### [Common rants and misconceptions](https://osherove.com/blog/2004/1/9/common-rants-and-misconceptions.html)

- Jan 4, 2004

    ### [Disappointed with RSS Bandit](https://osherove.com/blog/2004/1/4/disappointed-with-rss-bandit.html)

- Jan 3, 2004

    ### [Good design is easily recognizable. Everywhere.](https://osherove.com/blog/2004/1/3/good-design-is-easily-recognizable-everywhere.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/