So I presented my blog site yesterday to that group of staffing industry folks. And while I got many comments about how cool it was, I doubt that there will be a bunch of recruiting blogs popping up next week. We talked about how I use my blog to share...

Owen found a bug today in the custom party resolution SDK pipeline component located in @ $:\Program Files\Microsoft BizTalk Server 2004\SDK\Samples\Pipelines\CustomPartyResolution. The bug is in the Read() method in the PartyResolutionStream class...

Last time I gave some vague, high-level definitions of the type system concepts promotable , assignable and coercible . Today I'll give a more precise definition of promotable . The others I'll define more precisely later. Suppose we have an assignment...

A message from the Microsoft Patterns and Practices Smart Client team: “Smart clients are the embodiment of the next generation of client software: taking full advantage of end user devices, consuming Web services, supporting a rich experience...

We have a little known feature in the debugger so I wanted to see where, if anywhere, it is documented, so naturally I used Google. It can't find it. Not because it doesnt exist, but because the thing I am looking for is “.load” : yes, that...

Today, a friend e-mailed me to say that her husband was preparing for a phone interview (not with Microsoft) and asked if I had any tips to share with him. I directed her to my entry on phone screens and then added a few extra suggestions. After writing...

One more off topic post then I promise to get back to business. I’ve designed a lot of swag in my career. By swag I mean conference crap… stuff, loot… not as dictionary.com defines it: Slang. Stolen property; loot. Australian...

Someone on the recently created internal Burton bloggers mailing list pointed out this cool Burton wiki . I've not ever used a wiki before, so this was a good opportunity to take the plunge and make my first wiki edits. I added Currituck to the codenames...

All too often, I send an email and regret it a moment later. Maybe I bumped into Send before I was ready. Maybe I wrote something mean & nasty, and want to rephrase to something more constructive. Maybe I think of a better way to make my point...

Found this on .NET DElirium - somewhat amusing... - Mike

This week saw the Microsoft Research (MSR) Faculty Summit (read BillG's Faculty Summit Keynote here ), there were a number of really cool demo's being shown in the Demo Fest, some of which are reported in the online edition of the Seattle PI one of the...

Check out this new article from Dan Fox and Jon Box here . [Author: Robert Levy]