How many times have you had someone come up to you with a problem that they couldn’t describe? And if they could describe it, you can’t reproduce the problem on your machine. And even if you know where the problem might be (thanks to an error code...

After coming back from the dentist, I was walking through the parking garage’s 3 rd level and noticed how a significant amount of water was dripping through the ceiling. I’m walking up the stairs past the 2 nd level and guy with a pipe wrench blasts...

Cute Dental Assistant: You look really young, how old are you? Me: Mphmh-mmph CDA: [Takes her hands out of my mouth] Me: Twenty-Four CDA: And where do you work? Me: Guess. CDA: …Microsoft? Me: [Smile] CDA: Do you ever notice how...

Here’s something I didn’t know about until I saw someone use it here at Microsoft. Data breakpoints are a nice debugger feature that let you find out when a memory address changes. Say you have some code like this and you’re trying to figure out...

You know what's great about getting paid to work on weekdays? There's absolutely nothing you have to do on Saturdays. Yesterday I got up around 1 PM, went to the mall to buy stuff, went to the movies, went to the gym, played X-box, watched some Futurama...

If I could teach an Industry 101 class, debugging would be a big part of it. Mostly because I’ve found class teaches you how to code, but never how to interact with written code. What I mean by that is how often have you had a problem in a lab partner...

I'm taking a stand. In utter protest of having to work the past two months without a single work day off, I’m going to require a few changes. Microsoft may regain my hard work efforts if the following demands are met: I will be allowed to sit at home...

Anyone else code to video game music? OCRemix.org is one of my favorite sources of free “coding” tunes. And who doesn’t get pumped to the cowbell at the end of the Half-Life 2 credits music?