scooblog by josh ledgard

Yag, a fixture in the foxpro/data community, has decided to take on the challenge of architecting community platform infrastructure at Microsoft. This means that he’ll get to hear at lot more of my griping and brain farts than he did when he was...

I've spent a lot of time bloviating on the Mort vs. Elvis thing. I got confused once, and thought I was an Elvis. Not really understanding what an Elvis is, I accidentally identified with the Elvis persona and championed the Elvis cause. I feel dirty...

We’re preparing to release the source code to the latest Power Toys for Visual Studio and the question has come up a few times. What makes for successful source code releases? Specifically… what makes for successful releases if you’d like to encourage...

You can now get the source code to your cell phone . Someday you might probably be able to get the source code for Java . And most importantly to me… Microsoft has launched a site for community development! From Jim Newkirk’s blog : Over 13...

A year and a half ago I made 16 predictions for 2005 . I won’t be leaving my post for a job as a psychic any time soon, but here’s a review on how I did against my predictions. 16. Bill Gates will start a blog… – This didn’t happen, but Ray Ozzie and...

I asked for feedback on keys to successful source releases and it’s started to trickle in. I figured I’d post what we’ve heard so far. Will says that communication is key : “Along the lines of your "Experts" point - it might...

Here is my reply to a mail that I can post publicly. The mail was from a team in another organization that had some questions about how our team is working. I saw the recent announcement about the v1.0 Power Toys and that generated some questions from...

Zoe, from Jobsyntax , had a great post that enumerated some reasons why groups/companies may have a hard time hiring folks. The JobSyntax Blog : top 10 reasons why employers have a hard time hiring good talent . Here were some of my favorites… ...

Here is another set of questions that was put to me recently... well over a month ago to be specific. It might be too late for my answers to be internally useful, so I figured I'd post them here. We’d like to get your answers to a couple of questions...

Lots of questions sent my way of late. :-) This set of questions is from another team that’s been looking at leveraging scrum methodologies. I can’t honestly say I’m the best person to be answering these questions. We only have 3 completed sprints under...

Yahoo, Live Search, Ask.Com, Technorati, Feedster, and even Google are all missing a boat. Not one of them offers a true conversation search. I’m not talking about a link ranked blog search. I’m not talking about Usenet search. I’m also not asking for...

This week the MSCom team, in an effort led by Jana, pushed out an update to the forum system that runs the MSDN forums . Jana just posted about the update here , but I'll save you the click... 1. Top Answerers Page: This page will display a list of...

Sara has a great entry where she looks at how we are doing so far when it comes to making approachable source code. Sara Ford's WebLog : Power Toys as Shared Source, Collaborative Development Software – Where we’re at and where we want...