Living in the Tech Avalanche Generation

Today I came across a common issue as displayed here below. It warms my heart to see humanity leaving traces of itself lying around. But here’s my question: I wonder how many person hours go into proofing grammar and spelling errors in code that Microsoft release? Still it’s nice to see imperfection from to time, it reminds us that were human (as long as it doesn’t interfere with my application!). If you know the answer to the question post a comment and put me out of my misery.

I can’t name the number of times I have downloaded material for learning from MSDN. My problem is this: I don’t want to have to print out a logical sequence of pages and have to collate them myself. For example recently I wanted to get all the documentation on Entity SQL together and put it in a single document (PDF) so I can easily refer to the material as a whole and not separate resources on the web. So off I go doing the ‘user friendly print version’ thing and printing that to separate PDF files only to have to merge them. Microsoft would be doing the community a huge favour by making that available online by default. Look at the Entity SQL MSDN pages for example.

What I normally do with a tree full of documents like this, is to print all the friendly versions to PDF individually and then merge as one PDF document. So for the above I have the entire Entity SQL Language reference material from MSDN all in one physical document - easy to read and print all in one action. Ok so perhaps they would prefer to provide and XPS version - that’s great with me too, I wont discriminate on document type. Do Microsoft have a suggestion box? Yes they do!

I recently moved my blog and will reside here now for a great deal of time (all things being equal). Wilkommen (extent of my German these days)!