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Thursday, May 11, 2006 2:17 PM

Most users do not read documentation

This was something our User-Experience folks keep telling us. Frameworks and UI needs to be designed such that they fall into the pattern that'll be assumed by the user. Recently I got bitten by this. I was writing some verification code which needed
Posted by abhinaba | 1 Comments
Monday, May 08, 2006 1:47 AM

Everyone working in Microsoft are millionaires

24 hours and 5 movies later I finally landed in Seattle. Journey was uneventful other than the fact that the security in Amsterdam had some doubt about my passport :) As usual my Microsoft blue badge did the trick. They seemed to be more convinced by
Posted by abhinaba | 2 Comments
Friday, May 05, 2006 2:42 PM

I'm coming to Redmond

You feel super-weird when you pack jackets and woolens when it's 107 degrees outside. But that's what I'm doing right now as I'm getting ready to travel to Redmond Saturday morning. Weather.com tells me that its likely to hit as low as 40 degrees in the
Posted by abhinaba | 4 Comments
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Thursday, May 04, 2006 2:42 AM

TFS prank: Scare your developer with a bug created by the CEO

Raymond Chen in one of his posts jokingly wished that if he could use an alter-ego to update bugs in the bug-repository it'd be great. Actually there is a neat feature in Team Foundation Server's Work-Item tracking (WIT) client using which you can do
Posted by abhinaba | 2 Comments
Wednesday, May 03, 2006 9:36 AM

Moving on

Team Foundation Server v1.0 has shipped and I'm almost done with the MQ work. This makes it the perfect time for moving on to newer waters. Next week I'll start working in a new team. I'll still be under the umbrella of Visual Studio Team System (VSTS)
Posted by abhinaba | 6 Comments
 
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