scooblog by josh ledgard

This is the 4 th of 5 planned entries in response to comments I’ve received because of this post . I’m starting to run out of themes to cover. This post looks at some of the more interesting suggestions and responses that didn’t fall into the other buckets...

Taking a break from responding to Slashdot responses I had a bunch of stuff in my inbox to clear out. 1st Proven VSCmdShell Fan People have told me they would use a command shell integrated well into VS, but this quote is the first real proof I have that...

One of the questions I asked was “What projects or types of projects should Microsoft look to open up?” I’ll add a HUGE disclaimer here saying that this is not my choice and I have very little say into what we do across the company. I’m collecting this...

By time I get through responding to the comments I'm sure that almost no one will be reading anymore, but for those that stick around you get to witness this little mental exercise. MS and Patents A lot of people have plenty of feedback on Microsoft patents...

My wife and I seem to have had some friendly competition as developer community engagement has made our jobs have been very similar over the last few months. I had a decent blog, she took her writing skills and created a better blog . I started the Powertoys...

Yes, I was one of the testers for the Start Page in Visual Studio 2002 and 2003. There are a LOT of good reasons we are scrapping it and starting over with a new Start Page for VS 2005. Our redesign certainly takes into account the comments left here...

UPDATE : Welcome Slashdot visitors. I'm not sure how to submit a correction to slashdot, but I am NOT the person responsible for the WIX/WTL projects. I site them as examples and am working with people who where responsible for those projects to enable...

Recently I had the opportunity to spend an hour of time with Dave Winer to talk about Visual Studio and the community integration we are working on. I didn't take really great structured notes but here are the fragments of the conversation I remember...

“Test This” Wiki I’ve been setting up an internal Wiki for storage of best practice community participation information and thought of an external Wiki I’d like to start. I still get asked if I’m interested in working on a testing book, but I think it...

A while back I sent mentioned this add-in development contest being sponsored by Roy (Who is now an MVP!) The community judges just finished picking the winners. You can see all the entries and the source code that was submitted on this page . There were...

We've been thinking about shutting down several internal technical discussion aliases and forcing these discussions into the public space so that every developer can benefit from the Q and A that occurs on these aliases. I know this would be a HUGE win...

My wife added her thoughts about the recent site changes that disallow comments on ALL posts after 30 days. She adequately described what I would like to see happen. “ merge the two features (moderation/30 day policy) so that you have the ability to re...

Oddly enough I had never participated in any MSDN chats before three weeks ago when I helped organize the Soma/MVP chat . They certainly didn’t go easy on him and they were far more outspoken than the general “front line” chats I’ve done since with the...

The Import/Export settings team is hosting a chat @ 1pm pacific time today to talk about this feature in VS 2005. It was one of the most requested features from users and now you have it. Stop by and ask your questions to the team behind this awesome...