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The December issue of MSDN Mag has a great Editor’s Note, “The Dark Side of Being a Guru”, where they asked a couple of gurus if they had any good stories on advising and interacting with readers. My favorite comes from Aaron Skonnard:
"The thing that makes me most uncomfortable is when people approach me at a show with a scrap piece of paper for me to sign. What am I supposed to write? Should I do like in the movies and ask them what they want it to say? The pressure. I usually serialize some well-formed XML onto their paper, which seems most appropriate."
Hopefully Aaron remembers to include a namespace, to help the person interprete the message. At least he didn’t say he was going to serialize a business object graph to XML.
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