Submitting articles to MSDN's Knowledgebase
I'm long overdue on taking Microsoft up on their really cool offer to let MVP's submit articles to the knowledgebase directly. I had tried to submit a few things to MSDN magazine before but I was always late on the subject matter - but as far as the KB goes, I have a lot I want to add. Microsoft has replaced old school and annoying Word templates with InfoPath. Few products have made me feel so loved as InfoPath has. Publication is so cool and it's done right. Face it, filling in a Word template was a broken methodology. Sure, it's better than total freestyling but that whole paradigm is so early 90's. I'm pretty positive on Microsoft's Office products (although I think PowerPoint is pure evil for reasons not related to it's product quality) and MS products in general. Sometimes I think they do a lame job on stuff but by and large they get it right. But sometimes they just knock the ball out of the park (.NET, Sql Server, Excel - and now InfoPath and One Note). I just bought David McManus (of Crystal Reports fame) book on Developing w/ InfoPath and I'm really starting to love it. But that's the bad part - I'm already swamped and already have way more to learn than I have time. And besides, you can't use InfoPath without getting the SharePoint itch. So the last thing I need is something that makes it easier for me to be up at 3:00 AM, sitting on my computer and writing code.
Oh well, there's a lot lamer stuff I could be doing...