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About Me
Your host: Mike Pope from Seattle, Washington, U.S.A. My interests, as you can see
from this blog, include ASP.NET and related Microsoft Web technologies, reading, home improvement, various
kinds of music, software, writing, and editing. I'm interested both personally and professionally
in languages. I've studied German and Spanish, and for fun I have a separate
blog devoted to evolving English. These days
I am learning to play guitar (I've been a first-year beginner for many years now, to quote a fellow student).
Fortunately, you don't have to be good at guitar to enjoy playing with others.
I have two college-graduate kids. My son studied physics and wants to be a teacher. My daughter got her music degree at Indiana U;
she's a clarinetist. I am married to the lovely Sarah and have two step-daughters.
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I'm a technical editor (formerly a technical writer) at Microsoft, where I work in the Developer Division, specifically
in the ASP.NET group. (Please see my disclaimer). I edit and/or write documentation and articles,
plus all the usual stuff that comes across a tech editor's desk.
I'm not a brilliant programmer, but I do enjoy it a great deal. I figure that not being a super-expert can actually help me do my
job, and my adventures in learning programming (and Visual Basic and C# and ASP.NET and .NET and AJAX and ...) have resulted in various blog posts here.
In 2002, I wrote a book about Web Matrix, a very early version of
Visual Web Developer Express. The book was aimed at novice programmers who wanted to
learn Web programming. That effort was the starting point for this blog, which I began as an exercise while writing.
("How hard could it be?")
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About this blog
I created this blog not only to have a place to journal about whatever manner of topics,
but as an exercise in working with ASP.NET and the original (2002) version of Web
Matrix. The code was written in Visual Basic. It is way, way overdue for a rewrite using
a more recent version of ASP.NET. Real Soon Now.
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