i've been published

When the September issue of Queue arrived, a journal available to ACM members, I glanced over it quickly. I do this to pick out the articles that I want to read thoroughly later on. However, I usually always take a glance at the “What’s On Your Hard Drive?” section because it’s only one page – a quick fix. For WOYHD, Queue readers submit which development tools they like and which ones annoy them. Lo and behold, I saw a name that I recognized. Mine! I had totally forgot that I submitted an entry to WOYHD several months ago. I praise Python for its elegance. My teeth grind sometimes for Microsoft Visual Studio 2003 IDE. Don’t get me wrong; I’m enjoying the .NET Framework very much thus far and C# is a well-designed language. It’s just that the current Visual Studio IDE is so bloated; it bogs down far too often. I haven’t tried the Visual Studio 2005 betas or RCs yet to see if things have improved. Hopefully they have because it’s an otherwise pleasant IDE.

You can read my entry that appeared in the September 2005 issue of Queue here:

http://www.acmqueue.com/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=329

Because they used my entry in the journal, I received a mug 🙂