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I just got back from taking Chris to the airport after his first three days in 42.
 
It was great having him around in the building. His office is 2 doors down from mine on the 4th floor (yeah, some of us moved recently).  My almost lifesize Chris Sells cardboard cutout is now adorning his window instead of mine.
 
Here are the highlights:
 
Monday
  1. Chris meets the team.
  2. Chris' wife Melissa drives up for a visit on Hubby's first day on the new job.
  3. Chris gets an office (42/4836).
  4. Chris gets his first coding task (write a VS add-in to munge MSBUILD project files to use our build environment so we can build from VS).
  5. Chris starts to see the overall scope of what we're doing by participating in the planning process.
  6. SaraW stops by and takes Chris to dinner.
  7. ChrisAn and I take Chris to see Sin City. The consensus was that it was in the range [bad, good) - best adjective we could come up with was disappointing. The Star Wars Episode III trailer rocked however.
 
Tuesday
  1. Chris gets to participate in another day's worth of planning individual feature areas.
  2. Chris goes to an amazingly entertaining lunch at Kabab Palace with Oliver, Alexander, and I. During lunch we identify solar-sexual energy-powered cell-phones as the next big thing.
  3. Barb and I take Chris to a celebratory dinner at Palace Kitchen where we ate enough for six. The Enormous garlic crouton with romaine lettuce
    salad and Fried On Demand Doughnuts were amazing.  Eating a crouton with a knife and fork is an experience I never imagined having.
 
Wednesday
  1. Chris gets to participate in yet another day's worth of planning individual feature areas (in case it's not obvious, it's a planning week).
  2. Chris explains "the Chris Sells security model" to the team and declares his love for CAS.
  3. Chris gets enlisted in our source code control system and learns what a "razzle" window is.  Razzle is Microsoft slang for a CMD.EXE shell that is initialized with the proper environment variables needed to do work on a project.  The most important environment variables are of course the source code control variables that point you to the right repository.
  4. Chris helps Geoff and I wrestle with the lack of unions in CLR/C#.
  5. I take Chris to the airport and help him come to terms with what he's signed himself up for.
 
All in all, it's great having Chris on the team.
 
I think it's going to be great for both him and us.
Posted Apr 07 2005, 01:40 AM by don-box

Comments

Joe Duffy wrote re: Sells' First Three Days
on 04-07-2005 7:27 PM
Regarding Tue, item #3: gotta love Palace, especially its extraordinarily odd hours of operation (e.g. kitchen is open until something like 1am on weekdays). If you haven't tried Tom's other restaurants, all located within a few blocks, they're great. Lola serves up amazing greek dishes, has tzatziki(sp?) to die for, and even has an assortment of authentic dessert dishes. Dhalia's good, albeit a bit stuffy. Haven't had a chance to try out Etta's yet... So much awesome food, so little room in the average human belly.
Christophe Pichaud wrote re: Sells' First Three Days
on 04-12-2005 12:26 AM
So, "COM is love" is no more the philosophical strategy, guys ?
Chris is not too sad : VC++ no more... ATL no more... COM nor more...
I hope Don and Chris will meet CLR team and bring them their great spirit of the champions gurus to have a COM+ 5.0 with much more "COM is love" (that I love) than Visual J++ like it is now... look at the base classes : its much like Java than the Win32 API we used since more than 10 years.

I understand that you guys at MS need to bring VS.NET & MS Technologies for each developer, but it could be nice it if every new stuff could rely on core value like:
- suitable & comfortable API vs the Java base class hierarchy
- performance already included in the package : OK for the moment
- tunning possibilities : OK for the moment
- Win32 bridge to any API low level stuff

In conclusion, you have made the choice to lead the great Indigo ideaa and bring us a new vision in the distributed applications landscape. It's already a chance that you, with experience is real low level stuff can embrace thoses high level XML and great intregrations plans you'll develiver in the coming months.

I wish success for you guys, and bring me some customs VC++ custome COM dlls for fast & furious modules...

If I see a VB.NET line of code, warning !

Christophe.

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