Sam Gentile takes advantage of the launch of Tim Ewald’s XML Web Services Developer Center on MSDN to list the top ten reasons why he likes Tim Ewald so much. I seem to recall that a while ago, Don Box composed a list on the same topic (and one about Chris Sells), but it seems to have gone away with Don’s develop.com home page.
I don’t have ten reasons, but I am a big tjewald fan (looks like I’m not alone). When I attended Developmentor’s Conference.NET last summer, I made it a point to schedule breakout sessions with all of the big names—Chris Sells, Matt Pietrek, Don Box, Tim Ewald, Aaron Skonnard , Bob Beauchemin, Peter Drayton. The only time I changed my schedule in three days was to substitute a second session with Ewald. All of the sessions I attended were terrific, but more than any other presenter, he left me wanting more.
In one of those sessions, Tim was fairly bleak on the subject of interop. In the Q and A, I asked if we’d have been better off if the industry had stuck with XML-RPC. Tim had wandered out into the audience to answer questions, and I was sitting a little behind him to his right. As he gave a politic answer to the question, he flashed me a thumbs-up behind his back, but in an obvious enough way that everyone saw and laughed. It was a pleasure to be his straight man.
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