{"id":274,"date":"2005-01-31T19:06:41","date_gmt":"2005-02-01T00:06:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/wp\/?p=274"},"modified":"2005-01-31T19:06:41","modified_gmt":"2005-02-01T00:06:41","slug":"the-code-room","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/?p=274","title":{"rendered":"The Code Room"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A team of MSDN Events Managers have put together a professionally-produced, non-goof-off, &#8220;reality&#8221; show called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thecoderoom.com\" target=\"_blank\">The Code Room <\/a>about a team of .NET developers who are tasked with writing an e-commerce app in 5 hours &#8211; before their laptop batteries run out.<\/p><p><!--more--><br \/>\nThe pilot episode takes place in Houston in conjunction with a presentation on Whidbey\/ASP.NET 2.0 by our buddy Russ Fustino, who moved from New England to Florida a little over a year ago.<br \/>\nThe show is an amazingly (especially for Microsoft) constructive piece of marketing which does a super job of highlighting some of Whidbey&#8217;s new features.<br \/>\nIt also is a pretty down-to-earth, realistic portrayal of a web developer&#8217;s charrette &#8211; the 5 hour before-the-batteries-die period is roughly from 9:30 PM to 2:30 AM.  Done one of those lately?<br \/>\nThe 3 developers &#8211; Chris Menegay, Scott Bellware, and Tracy Sawyer &#8211; are a heads-up, likeable bunch, and their comments are great, patentable fodder for the next generation of .NET SWAG:<br \/>\n&#8220;Ignoring my management has been the best thing I&#8217;ve ever done.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;Some people out there don&#8217;t like to work with women developers.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;Who expects us to read specs?!&#8221;<br \/>\nIf you don&#8217;t have time to watch the video, at least check out the summary on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theserverside.net\/news\/thread.tss?thread_id=30491\" target=\"_blank\">TheServerSide.NET<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of MSDN Events Managers have put together a professionally-produced, non-goof-off, &#8220;reality&#8221; show called The Code Room about a team of .NET developers who are tasked with writing an e-commerce app in 5 hours &#8211; before their laptop batteries &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/?p=274\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}