Kavitak's WebLog

I have been using this for a while, ever since I installed outlook 11 . I find it very useful for remembering things I need to do. When you get a mail, just single click on the follow up flag to mark it with a “red” follow up tag. I often...

Meetings at Microsoft are an inevitable thing. Scheduling rooms for meetings is also an inevitable thing...I think it takes longer to schedule a meeting and finding a room than it should... Today, the Find Printer dialog can autofill my location correctly...

I just figured out that I can configure my reader to point to msdn and check for updates when I read my other blogs. May be you all already you knew that, but here it is for those of us who didnt know about this: http://msdn.microsoft.com/webservices...

The northwest has been having some real cold spells...of all days, I had a fingerprinting appointment with the INS today here in the Burien office. Now, they do not have a phone number listed anywhere. The appointment letter says if you do not show up...

ASML - Abstract State Machine Language is a technique being used in Microsoft by a few test teams to test their features. It is an executable specification language that is based on abstract state machines. The research team at Microsoft has integrated...

Keith Stobie, a test architect on the Indigo team has an interesting article on testing exceptions . Though it is important to verify that the correct exceptions get raised when incorrect data is passed to a function, it is also important to check...

Check out Brian's blog. http://blogs.msdn.com/bgold/

After Indigo was released at the PDC, a dedicated Indigo newsgroup was created. You can ask questions about Indigo, and a bunch of folks from our team monitor this newsgroup regularly. So hopefully, if you are playing with the PDC bits of Indigo, you...

Florin brings up an important point...something we normally forget to do, making our machines more vulnerable to hackers. You dont really need to be logged in as an administrator all the time while developing software. Read Florin's post here .