scooblog by josh ledgard

Let's just count the calories. A Betty Crocker brownie-mix box has two sets of nutrition facts on it--stats for just the powder inside of the box, and for the brownies after they are baked. That's all we need! It turns out that a box of brownies, after...

I don't want any part of them. They result in over-engineering, wasted documentation, never-ending discussion as everyone takes the opportunity to put their chef hat on, employees that get stuck going down a path while the world changes around them, and...

…pointing out those new Apple ads. So, you can be sure I’ll show him this spoof of those ads this morning. Contains some adult language. Nothing a 12-year-old hasn’t heard on a playground somewhere, though. Scobleizer - Tech Geek...

This is a question that just about every PM at Microsoft has to answer frequently. "What's your big picture?" or "How does this fit into the big picture?" Our culture is one of visualization and we love our grand views. (Hidden pun most certainly intended...

Bertan recently blogged about his next project. Feel free to leave him feedback. I saw the demo and it's a slick feature. Unfortunately not much dev work is going to get done in the meantime... he's out for four weeks on vacation to get married and enjoy...

The question was posed at JobSyntax . As a previous interview candidate, have you heard any creative ice-breakers? As an interviewer, what’s your favorite one-liner? I usually like to ask people what the most interesting, difficult, or...

So, technically, he joined a while ago, but he didn't have an active work related blog I could point to until Monday of this past week. Jeremy is going to do some PMing and some development work on IDE and developer platform related Power Toys that we...

I don't think I'd yet linked to another member of our team that now has a blog. Bertan is blogging as well. ( http://blogs.msdn.com/bertan/) He's a developer working on the Power Toys. Currently he's working on an update to the VSCmdShell project &...

Aaron owns driving user experience consistency in Visual Studio. I recently asked him for some book recommendations for the members of the Developer Solutions team. He replied in the best way possible... timely and publicly on his blog... I've spent...

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I’m always the last to know… Jobgals do podcast On the "Recruiters Lounge" you’ll find an interview with Gretchen & Zoe about their start in blogging and their current project… www.jobsyntax.com . Maybe she just didn’t...

Last week our team published a binary Alpha of an upcoming Power Toy for Visual Studio. Try it out and let us know what you think. Via Joe Announcing the Best Practice Analyzer for ASP.Net! It’s currently just an alpha preview version—a shell of...

This is something that should have leaked a long time ago… http://www.microsoft.com/College/default.mspx Breaking Video News! Don't miss Ed Helms' on-scene report to get an inside, non-biased view of life at Microsoft. Also be sure to check out...

So www.codeplex.com has officially launched… if you’ve seen any of the Developer Solutions team bloggers you know that we’ve been doing business there for the last month or so, but I guess we officially sent out releases to the mainstream tech media....