Korby Parnell's Social Software Wunderkammer

An email arrived in my Inbox recently from a customer that read, “I've got ALOT of questions, and I hope you could help me... How do I use Shadowing in .NET? How can I force users to check in their files and log out of SourceSafe so...

Microsoft Main Campus, from the air. The X-shaped buildings, the original six, look alternatively like the evacuated Mars Rover landing structure or a game of tic tac toe that Bill won. Due to their byzantine configurations, finding your way to and through...

Before I hit the sack, here are a few notes about a few of the folks (and a photo of three) who attended Microsoft's first annual Social Computing Symposium dinner party tonight, March 29, 2004 at The Big Picture in Seattle. The place name is apropos...

I'd like to preface this post by saying that I do not have an “RSS“ tattoo on my bicep and my license plate does not read Bliki, WikiWiki, Mny2Mny, SmartKorb, Wikster or anything else related to social computing. I may be a geek but I'm not...

In my lunchtime reading today I happened upon DadBlog , who points to a new BBC Wiki (a MoinMoin implementation for you WikiJunkies). The BBC Wiki's stated purpose is to enumerate all the little “things, bugs, problems and irritations that people...

SF seeks stable, employed, single, MICROSOFT MAN... [ Leslie Fullbright, Seattle Times ] “ In Alisa Blomstrand's dating game, Microsoft men are the only players. She's not one of the countless single women who vow they will neeeeeeeever go out...

I, corporate blogger ; am a contributor to and consumer of the Microsoft corpus blogus. Funny thing is, I don't feel like a corporate lackey ;-). If you'd like to have a beer, talk tech, and advance your career all at the same time, TechEd 2004 is the...

Today is an historic day. David Ornstein just announced WikiTalk , an OOP scripting language for WikiWiki. I wonder aloud how many other wiki implementations have gone down this path...

A typical Microsoft bookshelf? Yes, that is dental floss marking a very important page in ASP.NET Unleashed , which was written by an honest to goodness Microsoft Software Legend , Stephen Walther [via Julia Lerman and Amy Sorokas ]). No, I have...

“Sipping from the Firehose” is Microspeak for, 'I have 111 documentation issues (ahem, bugs) to fix, program managers from three feature teams knocking down my door, seventy topics in tech review, another fifty in the queue, 950 topics from...

Wunderkammer, which is one of my favorite words in any language, means “wonder cabinet” in German. A Wunderkammer is a collection of curious artifacts, a personal museum of sorts. I was first exposed to the idea of a Wunderkammer several years...

By default, the Get method does not work recursively in Visual SourceSafe 6.0d. Accompanying error message: “Version not found“. You can obtain a hotfix from Microsoft's hardest working employees in Product Support Services. For details, see...

If you glanced at my previous two posts and mused, 'What the heck is an RSS feed and what does this geek eat for breakfast anyway?', you're not alone. Well, I had Grapenuts and Microsoft milk for breakfast and I'll defer to Chris Sells for an explanation...

In a recent email exchange between me, my dev lead, PM, and one of the developers on the SourceSafe team, I suggested that a KB article would be the most appropriate documentation delivery channel for a minor technical issue we were discussing. Since...

[ S.B. Chatterjee ] Greg Reinacker's tool that generates RSS feeds from Visual SourceSafe was re-released today . Very cool.

Lance Hunt has created a GotDotNet workspace for public development of his managed wrapper for common VisualSourcesafe functions. You can download the source at VSS Wrapper: Home .

For the life of me, I don't know how anyone with an ounce of modesty can bring themselves to write a feature length autobiography. I was recently asked to throw together a short bio for a team Website. Doing so was tougher than completing my annual Microsoft...

If you're interested in WikiWiki (you know, that revolutionary, Web-based collaborative authoring thingymajig) and you write code, especially C# or C++, I'd like to introduce you to David Ornstein . David, who is a development lead on the Microsoft Windows...

This by way of Cameron by way of Word Soup by way of [extrapolate here]. I wonder if the creation of Blogacatmas can be traced back to HP's blog memetics study and the offhand kitten comment. Is that enough human aggregator for one paragraph? Okay then...

Building on another Code Project article that describes how to automatically generate documentation for your code files from embedded comments, Sune Trudslev explains how to integrate your auto-generated code topics into the Visual Studio help system...

A reader who must have seen my previous post about how to deploy files selectively using wildcards writes, “ I am adding some legacy asp applications into VSS ... some [are] flash files (*.fla, *.swf) and I would like to exclude them from the solution...

A reader emailed me this request for more infomation yesterday, “We keep several types of web projects in VSS, some apps from VStudio, some from dreamweaver, etc. As it stands now, both the shadow folder and deploy contain *all* the files. I'd like...

He hasn't coughed up the code yet, but K. Scott Allen has written a lovely little utility that shows the differences between two versions of a VSS project by label, on Windows Longhorn . I haven't said this word in a long, long time. Killer . Excerpts...