MVP 11
A little over a decade ago now, I awoke from a long haul flight to find an email I never expected to see: my first Microsoft MVP award. I earned the award by doing something many people couldn't understand, namely devoting a bunch of my time to creating things for the community. Not for money, not for glory, but for the love of technology and for the joy of seeing it make a difference to people. All this time later and in a fundamentally different world to one all of us were in back then, I still find people unable to grasp why I and so many of my friends and peers would want to do what we do: "You...