A while back, Josh asked for his blog readers' opinions on why somebody should want to join the Developer Solutions team that he leads. He's already received a great response from an outside reader , but I thought it might add something to hear a testimonial...

I used to think that rich profiles were dumb—that they were really only something that were only used by teenagers hell-bent on getting the latest and greatest AIM virus. Then I saw the Xbox.com Forums. Wow. Now those were great profiles. Why? The profiles...

A few of the comments I've gotten about my reputation system are telling me that I'm on the right track, but I'm really not doing enough to measure answer quality , not just quantity. Recently, the community lead for the C# team told me that she had been...

Now, honestly, I don't believe that my little blog is going to generate more interest than Josh's well-read blog, but I'm going to try... Anybody want to take on the "forums guys" at fantasy baseball? Josh is a huge Red Sox fan, I'm a huge Indians...

On for the next part of phase 3 of the forums reputation system... It's not Microsoft's community... …it’s yours. So, as a community, it should be possible to do all of the same things I’m able to do in my site administration tool. Through a...

Over the past month I’ve blogged a ton about my “crawl, walk, run” plan for a reputation system in the Microsoft Forums. Honestly, I’ve been putting off writing this “final” phase, because it’s pretty tough to write a vision for the do-all and end-all...

I've been writing quite a bit about reputation and auto-moderation on the MSDN Forums on this blog. It's been a cool way for me to organize my thoughts and collaborate a bit with other people on what we be great for the forums in the future--but it's...

Wow. Lots and lots of hits on my last post about Apple’s Boot Camp software that allows Windows XP to be installed on the new Intel Macs. I guess my comment implying that I had MacBook envy (I wish my computer was lighter and better looking!) really got...

Wow. I never thought I’d see the day. Apple announced official software today, called “ Boot Camp ” that will allow Macs to dual-boot Windows XP and Mac OS X. The software looks like it will partition your hard drive for you without destroying your data...