Just re-checking the video embed capability...

This is what it looks like when you embed a video from MSDN in a blog post: And this is the newer embed code...

Today marks the first release from my current project.  I silently moved on from blogs to focus on the video experience on the MSDN and TechNet sites.  The results of that work are showing up for the first time today.  We’ve done a couple...

Awhile back Ken Levy did an interview with me for the CodeCast series at Code Magazine. It's finally available online here . In the interview we talk about the MSDN Forums, the DevCenters on the MSDN site, and other community topics like product feedback...

This is partially a test post so I can play with commenting options, but it's also a serious question, what do people think about the ability to require people to have a login before commenting? Is it a sign that the author is trying to dodge questions...

Wow what a ride the last couple days have been. As many of you probably noticed we've had some problems with the MSDN blogs being available. Last night we did some emergency maintenance and although problems continued into today we seem to be holding...

This is a post to test out some blog capabilities...

This past week we migrated around 50 more forums from the old forums platform to our new one. I'd like to take a moment to welcome all new users to the site, and say that if you have any questions feel free to ask me! For moderators that are moving...

Here at Microsoft we like to talk a lot about "ownership" of things. I myself can be either "business owner" or "community owner" of the MSDN Forums depending on the time of day and which way the wind is blowing. Do I really own the forums? Well not exactly...

After a long week of deployments, patching, migrating of some 600,000+ posts, and more patching, we've finally begun the move off of our old MSDN Forums platform, and onto the new one. Last week we moved over the following groups of forums: .NET Development...

I'm starting to shovel some coal into the engine of the Microsoft Forums Client project. As of this morning you can find my rough draft requirements for the project at the CodePlex site for the project. I've spent a pretty long time working on the requirements...

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What I've been up to... Over the last six months or so I've ended up becoming the community business owner for the MSDN Forums . What does that mean exactly? Well it's hard to say. Basically I stand in between Microsoft and all of our community members...

It's not often that multiple of your favorite things come together in one big ball of awesome. But just recently that's happened for me. As part of the Heroes Happen Here campaign there's a cool new webcomic. The comic has a really cool tech theme that...

I'm going to try and not let this blog go for close to an entire year without posting this time. I've come back to the blog to kick off what I hope is going to be a really exciting first half of 2008. The first big thing to announce (or at least talk...

This is a little experiment to see what happens when we try and date a blog post way back in time...

As part of making the transition from Beta to full Release status, we wanted to make sure that the Pack Installer was fitting in well with Visual Studio 2005 and other tools published by Microsoft. We really wanted to make sure that even if we weren't...

I'm happy to announce that Pack Installer 1.0 is now ready to go! The changes from Beta 2 to 1.0 have not been huge, but there are some improvements I'd like to call out. Tool descriptions are no longer truncated to 256 characters. In addition to...

Over on CodePlex I've just released Beta 2 of our Pack Installer project. This release has seen a lot of hard work go into it, especially by our primary developer Bertan Aygun . New features that we've added include tags on each of the tools in the list...

This week's update brings a brand new tool to the Pack Installer! The Visual Basic team has released a new Power Pack called the Microsoft Printer Compatibility Library. In their own words: "The Microsoft Visual Basic Printer Compatibility Library...

The list of tools included by the Pack Installer has been updated this week to include some cool new updates to some popular tools. Now included are: ILMerge 2.0.7.0102, this is an update from the 2.0.6 release XML Notepad 2007, this is an updated...

Apparently I've taken an unintended sabbatical from blogging for awhile. The months of November and December were just crazy, between finishing planning for, and travelling home to get married the whole last two months have flown by. There should be a...

I'm going to take a little diversion from my normal Power Toy goodness to blog about Zune. Yeah I know, bandwagon, sellout, blah blah. My blog, my post. :) So I bought a Zune today, went out to Sears after work, and got the black one. I tried to get...

Despite taking me a lot longer than I anticipated, the source code for the Beta version of Pack Installer is now available on the CodePlex site. This lets us finally start to do what we've wanted to with this tool, which is collaborative development....

I've been getting reports from multiple sources indicating that there's a problem with the Pack Installer. The symptom seems to be an exception thrown at startup. If you see this message: see the end of this message for details on invoking just...