{"id":2363,"date":"2009-06-29T06:02:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-29T06:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/vbteam\/2009\/06\/29\/im-a-vb-franklin-garzon\/"},"modified":"2024-07-05T13:06:01","modified_gmt":"2024-07-05T20:06:01","slug":"im-a-vb-franklin-garzon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vbteam\/im-a-vb-franklin-garzon\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#039;m A VB: Franklin Garzon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vbteam\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2009\/06\/FranklinGarzon.jpg\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span><\/span>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>\u00b7<\/span><span>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span><b><span><font face=\"Calibri\">How long have you been using VB?<\/font><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span><font face=\"Calibri\">Six years.<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>\u00b7<\/span><span>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span><b><span><font face=\"Calibri\">What industry do you work in?<\/font><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span><font face=\"Calibri\">Satellite Location, Education Institute, Military Education, Food Factories, Supermarkets.<i><\/i><\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span><font face=\"Calibri\">&nbsp;<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>\u00b7<\/span><span>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span><b><span><font face=\"Calibri\">How big is your development team?<\/font><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span><font face=\"Calibri\">18 members.<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>\u00b7<\/span><span>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span><b><span><font face=\"Calibri\">What kind of apps do you most commonly build?<\/font><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span><font face=\"Calibri\">Satellite Location and Commerce Apps.<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>\u00b7<\/span><span>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span><b><span><font face=\"Calibri\">What\u2019s the most interesting app you\u2019ve ever built?<\/font><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span><font face=\"Calibri\">There are 3: Synchronization apps, Real time apps and SOA apps.<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>\u00b7<\/span><span>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span><b><span><font face=\"Calibri\">Please tell us about an app that you\u2019re working on at the moment.<\/font><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span><font face=\"Calibri\">Real Time into satellite locations.<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>\u00b7<\/span><span>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span><b><span><font face=\"Calibri\">What other technologies do you most commonly use?<\/font><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><font face=\"Calibri\"><span>Java.<\/span><i><span><\/span><\/i><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>\u00b7<\/span><span>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span><b><span><font face=\"Calibri\">What are some of your favorite VB features?<\/font><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span><font face=\"Calibri\">Synchronization with portable clients, XML consumption and Interop features.<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>\u00b7<\/span><span>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span><b><span><font face=\"Calibri\">What do you like most about VB as a programming language?<\/font><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span><font face=\"Calibri\">This is a very flexible language, but most important is its continuous evolution in 3 ways:<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span><font face=\"Calibri\">1: More RAD <\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span><font face=\"Calibri\">2: More powerful language features <\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span><font face=\"Calibri\">3: More Microsoft products integration.<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span><font face=\"Calibri\">&nbsp;<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><b><span><font face=\"Calibri\">For other interviews in this series, please visit <\/font><\/span><\/b><a href=\"http:\/\/imavb.net\/\"><b><span><font face=\"Calibri\">http:\/\/imavb.net<\/font><\/span><\/b><\/a><b><span><font face=\"Calibri\">. <\/font><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><b><span><font face=\"Calibri\">&nbsp;<\/font><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><b><span><font face=\"Calibri\">Are you a VB, too? Submit your story <\/font><\/span><\/b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.surveymonkey.com\/s.aspx?sm=dRItygroketO20qGr5fcPA_3d_3d\"><b><span><font face=\"Calibri\">here<\/font><\/span><\/b><\/a><b><span><font face=\"Calibri\">!<\/font><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; \u00b7&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;How long have you been using VB? Six years. &nbsp; \u00b7&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;What industry do you work in? Satellite Location, Education Institute, Military Education, Food Factories, Supermarkets. &nbsp; \u00b7&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;How big is your development team? 18 members. &nbsp; \u00b7&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;What kind of apps do you most commonly build? Satellite Location and Commerce Apps. &nbsp; \u00b7&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;What\u2019s the most [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":260,"featured_media":8818,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,195],"tags":[73,119],"class_list":["post-2363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-im-a-vb","category-visual-basic","tag-im-a-vb","tag-pages"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; \u00b7&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;How long have you been using VB? Six years. &nbsp; \u00b7&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;What industry do you work in? 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Satellite Location and Commerce Apps. &nbsp; \u00b7&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;What\u2019s the most [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vbteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vbteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vbteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vbteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/260"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vbteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vbteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2363\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vbteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vbteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vbteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vbteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}