Publications
Biff Gaut has been active in the industry, both through publishing as well as through public speaking engagements.

Publications

Microsoft Commerce Solutions Web Technology
Microsoft Press, 1999, contributing author with chapters on COM and MTS.
Enterprise Web Development with Microsoft Tools
Whitepaper, 1997, published on MMA and Microsoft Web Sites

Speaking Engagements

1998 – Windows World/Comdex – VB 5 for the Web
At this world renowned conference, this talk explored how to write scalable web applications using Visual Basic 5.0.
1997 – Microsoft Developer Days – Advanced Client Server Development with Microsoft Visual C++
1997 – Microsoft Developer Days – Advanced Java with Microsoft Visual J++
These two talks familiarized developers to the new features of these Visual Studio products at the Microsoft conference where they were introduced.
1997 – Microsoft Professional Developer Conference (Minneapolis) – Nasdaq-Online Report Generator
This talk, given at the Minneapolis edition of Microsoft's premier conference, explained the architecture and implementation of this Microsoft Solution of the Year finalist developed by Plural.
1996 – Mid Atlantic VC++ User Group – OLE Automation
At the outset of OLE, this talk showed MFC developers how to expose the functionality of their applications as OLE interfaces, increasing their ability to integrate with other systems.
1996 – VC Teach – Defensive Coding Practices in Visual C++
This presentation delivered an overview of Visual C++ features that help developers write bug-free code, in addition to some basic coding practices that help to minimize coding errors.

Newsletters

Biff's PDC Newsletters
Popular among Plural developers and others, these daily email newsletters presented an overview of each days technical sessions from the Microsoft PDC. Over 100 subscribers read these light-hearted daily accounts of technical issues and anecdotes. The newsletter now has its own site here.