This last week I upgraded (actually, wiped and installed) my nicest machine to run Windows Server 2012. Since this is a very important machine in my testing world I went through it first making backups, ensuring key files were archived and tasks like...

One of the testers on our team came by and had been tasked with verifying our Payment command is working fine. It is, but the tester was getting numbers that did not make sense. First, a quick tutorial on that function, which in our lingo is called a...

One of the notebooks that I have open across all my machines is our Learning Center notebook. This is a notebook we (the test team) uses as a wiki to track all types of information we use on a day to day basis. We have everything from archived training...

When I first came to the OneNote team, I had a single laptop at home I was using for my notes. This was the (now old) 2007 version. Things have changed a bit and as I was looking through my notes, I realized I have many different machines I use frequently...

I saw a question on our twitter feed about how to dock the new OneNote available in the Windows 8 store to the desktop. The person wanted to snap it in place on the right like you can do with the desktop version but did not think it was possible for the...

I finished a class I started a few weeks (months?) ago on Coursera . Now that I have had a little time to think over how it went, I wanted to share my thoughts on how I used OneNote to complete this online class. First, the class I completed ( Model Thinking...

We are in the process of upgrading a file server we have which we use to store DMP files. We've had this machine for about 6 years now and it was starting to get full and remain full. As a file server we were only really interested in storage capacity...

Every so often, I switch my dogfood account over to a different language just so I can make sure our UI is looking correct for all the different languages OneNote supports. This also helps cover typing in different languages, font support, Unicode and...

One of the other testers and I were talking this morning about unit tests .  Here’s an example of 100% unit tests passing, 100% code coverage and still results in total failure: http://articles.cnn.com/1999-09-30/tech/9909_30_mars.metric.02_1_climate...

Way back when, the server that held the source code for the text importer got shut down. Since this blogging platform limits me to one attachment per post, I had to post the executable for everyone. I have received enough requests to let me know that...