I attend the Boston Azure Users Group meetings. They have been meeting once a month for over a year now. Attendance grows monthly. Great presentations, great networking every month. I've decided to take one of my side projects to Azure. Microsoft has been helpful in providing resources. User group attendees have been great about pointing me in the right direction and answer questions. I'm still an Azure noob, but I'm "getting it". Jeff

I have seen a lot of physical pranks like this over the years. Being a developer, I would always go the code route. One of my fellow developers was an avid Solitaire player. He had bragged that Solitaire was the most tested Windows application ever. One evening, I stayed a little later and manipulated the dll with the card bitmaps by swapping two of the images. I think it was something like swapping a Queen for a 10. I put the app on his PC and modified his Solitaire shortcut to point to the altered app. Next afternoon, he is running up and down the hallways of the cube farm telling everyone he has found a bug in Solitaire. He gets to my cube and I can't hold in the chuckle. He knew he had been goofed on. Another favorite was to mess around with the resources in user.dll.

The Fortune 500 company I worked for last decade implemented a strict dress code and included developers who had been excluded from previous silliness like this. I had just lost about 50 lbs so I made a trip to a local men's store and bought several suits. Wearing a suit was way beyond the dress code, but I did it even on casual days to break in the new clothes. Several managers pulled me aside to ask me if I had been interviewing elsewhere. A week later I was promoted. The moral of the story: Dress nicely and keep them guessing...