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·<\/span>        <\/span>How long have you been using VB?<\/p>\n

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Since VB4.0, so that’s about 13 or 14 years.<\/span><\/p>\n

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·<\/span>        <\/span>What industry do you work in?<\/p>\n

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I work for a Fortune 500 cosmetics company.<\/p>\n

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·<\/span>        <\/span>How big is your development team?<\/p>\n

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Our development teams tend to be small, from single developers to 4 or 5 developers.<\/span><\/p>\n

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·<\/span>        <\/span>What kind of apps do you most commonly build?<\/p>\n

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I build a lot of infrastructure \/ middleware applications and lately those are taking the form of web services.<\/span><\/p>\n

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·<\/span>        <\/span>What’s the most interesting app you’ve ever built?<\/p>\n

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I wrote an app a number of years ago that replaced a high performance middleware app written in C. <\/span>There was great doubt at the time, in our oganization, that a VB.NET app could handle the volume of transactions that the legacy system handled during its peak.  <\/span>But the new code and VB.NET were up to the challenge. <\/span>The new app was more than capable of the volume and then some. <\/span>Not an interesting app, but it most definitely changed perceptions about VB.NET’s abilities and place in enterprise applications.<\/span><\/p>\n

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·<\/span>        <\/span>Please tell us about an app that you’re working on at the moment.<\/p>\n

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I am currently working on two web services: One that provides identity verification functionality for a handful of externally facing client applications. <\/span>And another that provides Active Directory functionality to other applications.<\/span><\/p>\n

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·<\/span>        <\/span>What other technologies do you most commonly use?<\/p>\n

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There are other technologies??? \ud83d\ude42<\/span><\/p>\n

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·<\/span>        <\/span>What are some of your favorite VB features?<\/p>\n

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Intellisense. <\/span>Can’t live without it anymore. <\/span>Any time I have to fire up VB.NET 2005 I dread having to type everything. <\/span>It’s the little things that make developers productive.<\/span><\/p>\n

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·<\/span>        <\/span>What do you like most about VB as a programming language?<\/p>\n

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It’s an elegant language. <\/span>It’s striaghtforward, simple and it doesn’t pretend to be anything else.<\/p>\n

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For other interviews in this series, please visit <\/font><\/span><\/b>http:\/\/imavb.net<\/font><\/span><\/b><\/a>. <\/p>\n

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Are you a VB, too? Submit your story <\/font><\/span><\/b>here<\/font><\/span><\/b><\/a>!<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

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