Yesterday, I have come full circle and realized how I have been apart of something really cool! If you go all the way back to my second post back in March of 2004, you will see that the MS Dev Evangelist for the SW (Joe Healy) at gave me my nickname. We met again for the first time but this time it was face to face. We were talking about how we had changed the world.
Basically I had been thinking about blogging but I wanted a gimmick. For instance, everyone knows the Marcie Robillard, the Datagrid Girl (also now the GridView Girl), and I wanted a nickname before I started blogging. [Hey Joe, you think I need a second nickname? I could be the Dev Monk… or the Bishop of Dev… or well… the PageMethods Guy… nahh…]
Read the post referenced if you don’t know… Joe named me and begat a blog. Later he thought it seemed like a good idea and he started DevFish (already referenced). So I had to one up him… I got my co-workers, Rob Teixeira and d.code (he likes to remain anonymous), but neither of these had the success I desired in a Blog Child… and then I got my buddy Dave Balzer to start blogging… Dave ended up starting DevAuthority.com which is a whole blogging site. Who did it? Me and Healy!
And we’re not done. I guess there’s this new site - devhammer.com (actually started by G. Andrew Duthie). We claim that one as our progerny, too… I mean look at the evidence…
Dev Theologian
DevFish
DevPrime (Rob Teixeira’s blog’s name)
DevAuthority
d.code (Ok, he had to be different… but the ‘d’ stands for ‘dev’)
Simply put, anyone who puts ‘dev’ at the front of their name is doing it because of Joe and me. You can bet on it… We claim all such domains in the past and in the future as progeny of our efforts to affect the world… that is unless you are a Java or Linux site then we claim you as an evil copy and the Microsoft legal dept will be speaking with you soon (they are helping us… OK, not really, but you get the idea… Don’t screw with us! It might be Rory and his pet poodle showing up at your place or if we really want to get mean then we might beg Rory to bribe his Dad to come over… So… you really do not want to screw with us!)
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