scooblog by josh ledgard

One thing I started noticing about Microsoft blogs (and yes, there are expectations) is that we do a pretty good job of giving customers our information, but not as good a job of highlighting good customer contributions. The result is that it feels like...

Sara publicly released MSAAVerify today. She has been working on it part time for two years and I know is excited to have “shipped“ it. This tool has recently been picked up by several teams at Microsoft for verifying the accessibility of...

Eric Lippert does. Today he answered some of the popular google questions that led to his blog. You know, from my previous entries , that I always find these amusing. Enjoy - Josh “What make my eyes hurt when I open them in the morning? ...

I've started seeing google queries where people seem to be having issues with Visual Studio loading slowly. There are a few things that could be causing this and some things you can do to help. I've talked a lot previously about various issues with...

Mark, my boss, posted a long article that explains the intent and direction of the CTP program. Here are some choice quotes and some of my own comments... Our ideal is that every build is publicly available. Another way to say it is that we want to...

I spent part of Thursday looking for quotes from customers that suggested improved satisfaction with Microsoft becuase of the openness and community participation embarked upon by MS employees. Afterall, a large part of this is about building and improving...

Yesterday I started a rather unscientific polling of how people would like their Visual Studio 2005 talk once a more public Beta is released. I also posted the question to the newsgroups that exist today . So far, I've received 10 pieces of feedback....

If you read my blog then you know I've been doing a bunch of work that will hopefully result in a more unified , trustworthy, threaded discussion solution for Microsoft as a whole. Your comments have been helping a lot so far, but until we have a swanky...

Watching the blogosphere of late you have most likely noticed the discussions surrounding women, or the lack there of, in computer science related jobs. Its amazes me how many men are arguing about this and offering their insights. I don't want to add...

I've seen some posts on different plug ins for Outlook that enable NNTP integration. Does anyone have any opinions on which ones are best? Thank - Josh

I found these quotes from Steve Jobs via the channel9 forums . Jobs essentially discusses the problems with trying to market a portable video player and makes the case that if you did make one it should ideally be designed to hook into a larger screen...