The other day I wrote about Burnout . Well there’s a cool kind-of related video up on the new Microsoft XNA web site called “Crash.” You should check it out .

Had some problems with my blog, hence no entries for a while..... here we got with another quick tip. I still find people who aren't using this. If you aren't a quick typist, are a master of efficiency or simply don't like to type (such as me..) Then...

People have asked questions about our upcoming events so I wanted to provide some answers: Where does my resume go when I apply? When you submit your resume to impact@microsoft.com , it will be routed to Zoë, Gretchen, Tracey...

Last year I took a course on the Microsoft Operations Framework . One of the best parts of the course was the McKinley airport simulation , which is an evolving simulation of IT support at a busy airport. You have to operate as a team with different roles...

http://www.entourage.mvps.org/ One of the greatest things about Microsoft Entourage, is the community that supports it. Among our great community are a couple of key standouts: our MVP's. http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/ What are MVP's? The...

I'm heading for Helsinki at the moment to deliver another Workshop on SQL Server 2005 (formerly known as SQL Server Yukon) so I have some time to reflect on the previous deliveries of this workshop. The topics that I'm delivering myself are the...

As was mentioned in one of the comments on this blog and in the VSIP Extras Beta newsgroup, there is a problem with installing the VSIP Extras help files. If you have VS, MSDN, & VSIP (w/Extras) installed on a non-system drive, you may notice that...

Dan Fernandez , Eric Gunnerson and I recently talked with Julia Lerman about Generics in Whidbey and the differences in .NET-languages for how they were implemented. Julia recently blogged that conversation here: http://www.thedatafarm.com/blog/PermaLink...

I am very happy to have this book done! Ever since I started working on the CLR, almost 6 years ago, I have wanted SOMEONE to do a book like this. In a past life when I did Java development, I really liked Chan (et al)’s The Java Class Libraries...

TechEd 2004 is in San Diego (May 23rd - 28th) and the agenda has recently been posted to the site . I'll be presenting on Thursday 27th in WIN325 Microsoft and Interoperability . This is a new session where I'll be exploring all of the interoperability...

Recruiting for marketing, I’ve come to realize that people who know how to market products and services well sometimes don’t know how to market themselves. If we look at your job search as a marketing campaign aimed at a target customer (the...

Bill announcing the launch of Microsoft Speech Server 2004 Richard demonstrating the Prompt Editor tool in the Speech Application SDK Richard calling up the application he's just authored live. Tense moments... One of the Microsoft...