Posted in Businesson Jan 12, 2006
Ok, so some guy named Luis from Microsoft is here at BYU giving a technical presentation about how to develop a mobile devices.
I’m typing this as he is giving his presentation. So far, he seems like a friendly guy, and he knows what he is doing, but he doesn’t impress me as being an industry leader. He is going over a bunch of visual studio stuff, and since I really don’t care about visual studio, I’m not very impressed. He is talking about all of his specific features in visual studio, and all of them are either Microsoft platform specific, or things I’ve seen elsewhere in IDEs like Eclipse.
I started getting excited because he was going to show us about web services, but all it turned out to be was he did some visual studio thing and inserted some code he already wrote.
Why didn’t I sit closer to the door? I could have grabbed my pizza and been home by now.
So the base idea was that it is super easy to write mobile applications with visual studio. He said that if anyone could do anything similar on another platform in less than two days, that we should email him. I might take that challenge.