There is a new MSDN article (as of a few minutes ago) on Web queries in Excel: Different Ways of Using Web Queries in Microsoft Office Excel 2003 http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/?url=/library/en-us/odc_xl2003_ta/html/odc_xlWebquery.asp I have demo’d...

In case it slipped under the radar, Andrew May, programmability writer for Publisher and PowerPoint, has begun a blog about Publisher. It’s one of the better 1st time blogs I have seen (no mere Hello World stuff going on [not that there’s...

I received an email from Bill T. who was asking why C# wont be doing Edit & Continue (EnC as we refer to it) in VS “Whidbey”. He asked “I've always wondered WHY that's so much more difficult in C#. Perhaps you could write something in your blog describing...

From Overclockers: “Don’t get me wrong, I’m sure G5 is a great computer, but I wanted a Dell for Christmas.“ via Jason Calcanis' blog . Update : Apparently it was all a hoax . Oh dear.

I finished Steve Krug's “Don't make me Think” yesterday. Most of his book makes a lot of sense, and I'm totally on board with him with regards to user testing. Historically the SDK viewer has very little user experience testing, mainly because...

A colleague of mine, Jon Yeo (alas, no blog yet), points me towards Musicplasma , a graphical variation on the very useful theme of connecting you from one musical artist you like to another similar artist. I'm not sure yet of how accurate its reporting...

Off in a rush to see William Gibson and I find I actually have something worth while to say....

the first key to understanding the VC project/build system is understanding what we do with the source files in a project. each file in a VC project (foo.cpp, for instance) has a "tool" associated with it, based initially on the file's extension...

OfficeZealot kingpin (and fellow Minnesotan!) Chris Kunicki has posted some insightful commentary on OneNote (most recent: http://blogs.officezealot.com/MT/mt-tb.cgi/172 ) and I figure it is only a matter of time before Chris Pratley ( http://blogs.msdn...

Nothing much new here for anyone reading Indigo blogs or who attended PDC, but worth reading anyway if you are interested in our current public positioning of Indigo.

As mentioned in one of Brumme's past entries , more visibility (and kudos) is needed for the Microsoft Research division. This large, university-like component of Microsoft consistently produces so many amazing technologies that eventually end up in our...

Shai and I ate dinner at Crave , a new place down the street from home. The Rosemary flatbread is incredible. Everything is incredible. Places like this make me happy to live in my neighborhood. Since I decided to break down and post something food related...