scooblog by josh ledgard

In my post about the "Death Of Usenet" Joku left a great comment with two ideas that I wanted to share with a broader audience. Maybe its lazy blogging, but I haven't had much time lately and I thought his comment was a good read. 1. Do not to Close Comments...

Bad Math: I had the same thoughts Kevin did when I saw the Napster Superbowl ad telling me to do the math. "If you sign up when you are 15 years old. By the time your my age (30), you'll have spent $2,700 to not have your music collection in your physical...

Background: The VBCommenter is an addin for VS 2003 that gives you the ability to automatically generate XML comment headers in the VB .NET editor similar to what the C# editor automatically generates. It will also generate the XML comment file to go...

I love watching ideas turn into reality. Mike, from www.FIQL.com , recently sent me this mail because comments were closed on the post in question: Hey Josh, ran across an old post of yours here: http://blogs.msdn.com/jledgard/archive/2004/06/07/150302...

My Filming and Editing Debut: I just finished posting Devdiv's first "self produced" channel9 videos. We go through the end to end process of testcase analysis. Blame me if you get vertigo while watching these. I gained much respect for Scobles filming...

The History of Developer Powertoys: Raymond Chen wrote a decent post that outlined his involved in and the history of the classic "Windows Powertoys". One of my favorite parts was: "This was all back in the day when it was easy to put up something for...

I'll be pulling double duty today as an "expert" and a moderator in todays chat about VS Community features. Hope to see you there! Feb 2nd VS 2005 Chat: Visual Studio Community Features February 2, 2005 – 11:00 A.M. Pacific Time [ View Additional Time...