Office Zealot

Third day of the MVP Summit already! It appears to be a very productive trip. It is not so much the information that we get that makes these trips worthwile but especially the networking, the socializing and meeting people is making the difference of being at home behind your mail, IM and talking face to face to someone. Somehow when you have a ...

Today I left from home, my wife and two kids waved me goodbye at the Schiphol airport. As I had bought the cheapest tickets available in January and I used Airmiles (from the shopping initiative, not the Frequent Flyer miles) to get an ever bigger discount I wanted to make sure to eat enough before flying out. And what do you know? ...

  Do you know that feeling? Tomorrow you'll have to fly and leave home for about a week (what's a week anyway - it's gone befory you know it) and you get the feeling that you have to finish all sorts of jobs, projects, administrations, organize paperworks and the lot. Somehow you want to leave all your stuff behind in a decent nice looking ...

Only two days and eleven hours to go before the MVP Summit will kick-off. Usually this is a four day event (half day opening, two days technical, half day closing) where MVP's are able to get in contact with all sorts of Microsoft employees in all levels of the organization. From Executives like Gates, Ballmer, Ozzie right to the workfloor, the ...

First let me wish everybody who reads this a happy New Year. 2008 will be another year where technology will be more complex and to be an expert in your area you have to keep up with the technologies even faster than last year. With the New Year for me there was also the MVP renewal letter inform me that I was re-awarded as Most Valuable ...

  Today I went to DevDays 2007 here in Amsterdam, the Netherlands where I live to meet Mike Hernandez and talk to him some more about VSTO. Mike was scheduled to do three presentations at the Dutch DevDays 2007 conference: Overview Visual Studio Tools for Office Visual Studio Tools for Office a roadmap for the future Overview ...

Last two weeks have been real busy. Back in the US -again- for several technical meetings. It all started last week with the MVP Summit 2007, a fun event where all MVPs try too meet and do all this techie geek stuff and are getting informed in several technical sessions. In these sessions every MVP is assigned to a group of peers within their ...

Today a year ago I was first awarded as Most Valuable Professional in the expertise ''Visual Developer - VSTO'' by Microsoft and today I was reawarded ! What is an MVP?  Microsoft’s Most Valuable Professionals (MVPs) are recognized, credible and accessible individuals with expertise in one or more Microsoft® products who ...