Vacation starts tomorrow for me so I'll most likely be going dark the week. I guess this is sort of a blog OOF. When I return I begin my two week “whirlwind tour” to talk separately to the heads of all 16 groups that make up Visual Studio...

I just saw Alex Kipman has shot and posted an MSDN TV segment on the Whidbey MSBuild system. Enjoy!!! josh

If you haven't seen them you should check out the PowerToys projects for Visual Studio that my team created a while back. I've been impressed with the level of involvement and support from the VS community for these tools. Anyway, tonight I decided...

One of my 7 hours of meetings today was what's called a “Testing Symposium”. I was leading a discussion on test scheduling hoping to get some more valuable feedback on my post as well as hearing some other perspectives from around Microsoft...

Including today I currently have three hours free (without meetings) this week.

Seeing this image of “A Traditional Microsoft ‘Welcome Back’” reminded me that there was a similar, if not same group of people responsible for what happened to my office when I left to get married in September of 2002… ...

For being here only a bit more than three years I’ve had the opportunity to wear several different hats at work. Though officially always in the QA org I’ve had a good number of opportunities to do development (aside from developing QA tools...

First I’d like to thank Scott for migrating all of my blog content to this new site over the weekend. Secondly I’d like to thank Betsy , Sara , and the MSDN people for listening to all of our (MS Bloggers) feedback and making Blogs @ MSDN...

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