It's Memorial Day here in the states. Since there is no work to write about today, here's a true life mystery story from the OneNote hallway. --------------------------- The following story is true. The names have been changed to protect the innocent...

This is what I was reduced to yesterday: I was in meetings all day and did not want to distract myself with running my tablet so I did the next best thing and made a hipster PDA out of some cover pages I dug out of the printer recycle bin, rebranded it...

Automation cleanup continues.  Last week I needed to set a registry key before an automated test ran. The test I was trying to automate was "remove a page title that has text in it". In OneNote 2007, click Format | Show Page Title. In OneNote...

I saw this tweet the other day and wanted to respond. Since a picture is worth a thousand words, I figured it would be easier to blog some images than go through twitter + email. Here's the tweet: OneNote 2010 has paragraph spacing and here is where to...

Just a quick note that comments will be disabled on 5/16 as the platform gets upgraded. I won't be posting again until it is done. The upgrade should be finished by 5/24. See you then! John

Nothing directly related to testing today. Instead, a few of the folks on the test team and I went out last Sunday and ran the Kirkland (Washington) Half Marathon. It was just about perfect weather for it - cool in the shade, a hint of warm in the sun...

Way back I started a little laptop sitting in my office window and pointed a browser to a page that shows all tweets about OneNote . I wondered if anyone would like or pay attention to what everyone was saying - they have. Here's proof. Antoine is...

Our advertisements for OneNote are getting good: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAqjTnAxwYw&feature=player_embedded Heh. Questions, comments, concerns and criticisms always welcome, John

I just noticed that Mao Chen, who was on the team for creating the Linked Notes feature in OneNote 2010, just posted an addin for Firefox to add linked note taking support.  Check it out at http://blogs.msdn.com/mao_chen/archive/2010/02/22/linked...

So here's what I'm doing for the task library - simply updating the logging. Since our task library does not judge a pass or fail result within its code, we have several checks that go something like this: int originalOutlineCount = GetCountOfOutlines...