My homey Dave White is blogging .

CNET News.com is featuring an interview with Dr. Edward Hallowell titled Why can't you pay attention anymore? I'll tell you what...the symptoms of attention deficit trait (ADT) that Dr. Hallowell describes can be found in a majority of Microsoft employees...

I have been asked multiple times as to what I do at Microsoft? So here it goes… Contrary to most people's guess I am not in software development. I probably have the "coolest" job in Microsoft - to work with our Partners and make them successful. It is...

Ok so by now maybe you've seen the EEC post about our new Sun hardware . My manager just brought me one of the new boxes. I have to admit its a bit unsettling seeing Sun in my office (no jokes about living in WA – although it is HAILING right now). I...

FYI The allocation of special blog passes to MEDC has just been used up. If you sign up today (March 29th) using standard registration you still get the bargain price of $895. James

If you are running Virtual PC 2004 SP1 on a Hyper-Threaded system (though this is not a universal problem) then you may experience an issue where the guest OS periodically freezes or halts, may be for a couple of seconds every few minutes or so – somewhat...

The VSTO team showed a cool Microsoft Excel demo at the Office Developer Conference held in Redmond in February 2005 at the Microsoft Conference Center. We received a lot of positive feedback for that demo, so I went ahead and recorded it for you....

there's an odd title for an msdn blog post... and yet, I'm linking to it anyway... It's nice to see the linux community catches up with what we demonstrated on Windows at WinHEC two years ago. What do folks think of this sort of thing? If you've seen...

I put together some SQL 2005 resources for one of my ISV's so thought I'd share with you... Most of the questions I get are from people wanting more info on Reporting Services so I've highlighted that below. Upcoming Webcasts Lots of upcoming webcasts...

Fabrice has been aggregating all sorts of Developer productivity enhancing tools for just over two years now and I wanted to say thanks for all the hard work and Happy Birthday! Via Fabrice : SharpToolbox is two years old Two years ago, I started collecting...

Congrats to Joshua Schachter for (finally :-)) announcing that he’s taken the money and will now work full-time on http://del.icio.us , his pioneering social bookmarking/folksonomy/community tagging service. Whatever you want to call it, delicious changes...

A few of you have asked how to create something like es-US. (Spanish in the US). Here's a start of how you might do something like that. This code has many faults and concerns, so you should look at how these work for your application. I didn't include...