Korby Parnell's Social Software Wunderkammer

Answer me this, .NET gurus: <primalscream>Why</primal_scream> does the System.IO.Directory class not include a .Copy() method. I can Move(), CreateDirectory(), and even Delete(), but I can't copy a directory and all of its contents recursively...

I had the incredibly good fortune to spend an hour with Ward Cunningham yesterday. Among other things, we discussed WikiWiki at length. In parting, he suggested I check out a newish wiki called travelwiki.org. For avid armchair travelers and nostalgic...

Like most technical writers, getting my feature team to review my help topics for technical accuracy is like keeping an Iditarod team from making a dash for the nearest McDonalds or garbage dump in the middle of a blinding blizzard. Technical contributors...

This is one of the most common common questions I see and I've always intended to create a polished, scenario-driven, reusable answer for my FAQ library. Here's a first stab. If you've seen better, please provide links. Ideas for how I can improve this...

[Update: The feature depicted in the bitmap below will not be available until the Beta 1 release of the next version of Visual Studio. KorbyParnell DateTime.Now(:)] ++++++++++++++++++++ One of the top customer complaints about source control integration...

Before I came to Microsoft, I worked in the inspection department (a double wide trailer, actually:) of what was then a Texaco oil refinery. During my employment, I helped design and implement a corrosion monitoring program that aggregated and analyzed...

As a percentage of the general population, I don't suspect too many of you will find this very helpful but you can download a Visual Studio .NET 2002 (upgradable to 2003) solution, ' IVSS Sample' (SourceSafe API) that demonstrates how to build a custom...

Yesterday, I had a chance to sit down for about an hour with Dave Winer and his host to the Microsoft Campus, Curtis Wong to talk about the role that social computing can play in modern political campaigns. Here are some quick notes and notes-to-self...

Dave Winer , writer of the longest running blog in the blogosphere, is speaking here at Microsoft as I type. Robert points out that he and Dave will be speaking at the .NET Developer's Association meeting tonight at 7PM in the Tahoma room in Building...

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Last week, I linked from my blog post, WikiWiki as Tech Review Vehicle to the tip, or latest versions of three WikiTopics at flexwiki.com. Shortly thereafter, a malicious komment kiddie defaced at least one of the WikiTopics to which I linked with a distateful...

Steve Gillmor provides an insightful but at times bizarre stream of consciousness analysis of former Dean campaign manager Joe Trippi's keynote at the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference , which was held in San Diego earlier this week*. In a techno...

Congratulations to Steve Makofsky and his wife on the birth of their son, Tyler Jacob (domain name pending). The world's next great BabyBlogger weighed in at 7lbs, 12 oz and is 20 inches long. Tyler was born yesterday, 3 February 2004 at 1919 hours. Gosh...

I dined with Raymond , John Porcaro , Mick , Anita , Scoble , JP Stewart , Annette (no blog handle provided, and Jack Willam Bell (who refuses to blog until he writes the uber blog editor) last night at Crossroads mall. We were also joined by one of Scoble...

John Kerry is spamming Omar's blog : Referreral spam from John Kerry? LOL.

One of the amazing editors on my team recently sent me a loooong but engrossing email wherein various Microsofties weigh in on an equally long but engrossing essay by Marc Prensky . If you--like me--are irresistibly drawn to the Intersection of Social...