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I was over at http://search.twitter.com earlier today and I noticed the Search Box in Firefox had a blue lit-up dealie: Hm...OK. What's that? I hit another site and didn't see it. Weird. Ok, View-Source then, what drives you little blue thing? <link
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Finally ! Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!
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When I came to Microsoft I saw a really cool tool being used internally and immediately wanted to work with the author, Rocky Downs (who is blogless, but exceeding talented), to get it released. Fast forward to now, plus an installer, and here it is.
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There were a number of interesting comments from my post on Faster Builds with MSBuild using Parallel Builds and Multicore CPUs . Here's a few good ones, and some answers. First, Is the developer that sits inside of VS all day debugging able to take advantage
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Jeff asked the question " Should All Developers Have Manycore CPUs? " this week. There are number of things in his post I disagree with. First, " dual-core CPUs protect you from badly written software " is just a specious statement as it's the OS's job
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I'm working on a presentation for the DE (Developer Evangelists) the day before Mix. Since so many MSFT folks are getting together in one place, we usually take advantage and do some side meetings, etc. I'm doing this cool slide (at least I think so)
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My one-hundred-and-second podcast is up . In this episode, I sit down with Michael Pizzo, the Principal Architect of the ADO.NET Entity Framework. He gets technically down and dirty pretty fast and I get answers to all the hard questions like "Are LINQ
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I've been a mess all weekend. Truly. I've been as stressed as I've been in my life, trying to learn a new technology deeply enough to teach it. It's one thing to learn a tech enough to be capable, but in my new role at Microsoft I'm feeling more of a
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As a remote worker going to meetings sucks. It sucks big time. Huge. Nothing is worse (from a work perspective) than listening to six faint voices over a speakerphone get work done while you struggle to remain relevant. Sometimes I can convince someone
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More and more I find myself "skinning and themeing" my Visual Studio development environment in order to stay frosty . It's surprising how changing your theme (fonts, colors, etc.) can re-energize me when I'm having trouble with some problem or motivation.
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Months ago, even before I started at Microsoft , I got to talk to some very nice people about a project they were calling AdminX . After I told them that that was very possibly the worst name they could possibly give it (and they took part that very well)
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I'm getting ready to setup an HTC Excalibur and I wanted to post my list of favorite sites to visit with my Mobile Browser and a list of the apps I really need to install to make my Windows Mobile Smartphone complete. Amazon Mobile - http://m.amazon.com
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My ninety-third podcast is up . Actually it was up two weeks ago, but I was on leave, so I'm catching up. In this episode, I talk to Jonathan 'Peli' de Halleux and Nikolai Tillmann from Microsoft Research about Pex , a Dynamic Analysis and Test Generator
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My wife's laptop died last week and I just successfully restored it from a backup using the Windows Home Server bootable CD. It's so simple it's creepy. I just bought a new harddrive, booted off a CD, and selected a day from over a week's backups and
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As monitor resolutions get higher and higher I wish I could scale certain things in Vista more and more. I run with Large Icons, but I still have to look at tiny ALT-TAB Preview Windows and tiny Taskbar Previews. Turns out both these problems have been
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