As Leonardo da Vinci has demonstrated through his works, science and art should both be mastered. Boris Beizer has an intriguiging poem on bugs in his book: There are bugs adrift on the midnight shift That cannot be foretold The audit trails have their...

In my efforts to add content to blog-series: How to test like Leonardo da Vinci, I've continued my relentless pursuit to learn more about testing computer software. Colleagues, managers and in general excellent testers have recommended these books in...

Ever wondered, who designed the desktop wallpaper of Windows XP? Microsoft has been "under-credited" as not being a design-oriented company, by competitors and press. Microsoft as a company seeks to create magical products - products that people love...

Taken from John Durant's blog: Office PIA Sample Launcher (OPSL) provides a richer set of samples that use managed code and .NET Framework. These samples target the Office 2003 PIAs. Users can also add their own samples to OPSL. Check out John's article...

What is PIA? The acronym PIA stands for Primary Interop Assembly. An interop assembly contains the needed information that allows .NET managed code that runs under the common language runtime to call unmanaged code in Microsoft Office using the various...