I spent the last few months on the Xaml team designing and implementing the system-wide modern drag and drop API. It was the only major feature so far I got to design from scratch, go through the painful API review board meetings, write code, fix bugs, and now publish an article about it on MSDN. Of course, I didn't do any of these alone and owe huge thanks to my coworkers, especially Alain, because without him, I doubt this article would ever be born. The writing process reminds me of being in college. I had to write several papers and a 20-page final research paper in my 400-level music courses. I remember thinking to myself why I didn't take more humanity courses that require lots of writing because I was having so much fun. After graduating, it was about the time when people slowly stopped blogging, and started updating statuses on Facebook and Twitter. I just never wrote anything substantial anymore. Writing this article makes me want to go back to writing. Maybe no one else but me will ever read it, but I hope when I am old, I can come back to this and laugh at myself for being ridiculous or stupid. That's why I created this blog. Hope this time I will keep writing.
About me
Anna Pai
“You're the smartest one in the class, Aibileen," she say. "And the only way you're going to keep sharp is to read and write every day.” ― Kathryn Stockett, The Help