Korby Parnell's Social Software Wunderkammer

As a first time parent of the most incredible creature to ever walk this Earth--my fourteen month old daughter, Kiera --I am perpetually amazed by the simplicity and inexpensiveness of the objects and experiences that capture and hold her interest. Like...

Late last month, the gotdotnet team hosted the first ever "Gotdotnet CodeSlam" for 54 attendees (26 zealous MVPs and 28 FTEs) at the Microsoft Visitor Center in Redmond. In the invitation, I described CodeSlam as: "an open-ended, open forum, work...

On any given Sunday, you might happen upon this scene on Microsoft's Main Campus in lovely Redmond, WA: three lonely cars in an otherwise empty parking lot. And so you ask, 'What kind of lunatics, on such a lovely day, are sitting at their monitors...

I got a chance to hang out with a group of my favorite Microsoft customers today, the famed ASPInsiders . I had lunch and chatted with the likes of Paul Wilson , Omar Villareal , and Eli Robillard who are all in Redmond at the same time (!) for the ASPInsider...

As a product manager at Microsoft, it often takes an act of God, a run of good luck, and a forcing function for me to get something important done. I FINALLY choked out a 50-worder for gotdotnet: a task that I had been postponing once an hour for over...

If you are evaluating VSTS for use by your team, the ability to customize the default development "process" (agile, SCRUM, formal, etc) is a great feature. The "process template" defines the presentation of things like issue forms and checkin rules. For...

My wonderful account representative at Branders.com , Hope recently and unexpectedly sent me a box of fun swag ideas. What a gal! She guaranteed that my toddler, Kiera would like the "jellyfish yoyos". Nope. Hope is thoughtful and definitely upbeat...

Over the last few months, I've been planning the first of what I am certain will be many "gotdotnet CodeSlam" events ( Raymond explains my choice of the name CodeSlam ). Recently, those plans became a reality. CodeSlam0 was a small, invitation-only, ...

It is my great and profound honor to welcome the FoxPro developer community to Gotdotnet's new CodeGallery in the form of the FoxPro SednaX project : the fastest growing and newest project on Gotdotnet. May you stay long, do great things, and spread the...

A customer asked me this question via email today. Unable to remember how to do this (I've been off VSS for over a year), I pinged one of the VSS team's awesome developers, Alin, who promptly responded with this gem: "You can use VSS Automation to...

Are you planning to create a shared source or open source project on Gotdotnet CodeGallery or Workspaces ? If so, one of the first and most important things to do is to decide upon the terms by which you’d like to share your source code and other intellectual...

First of a kind? Gotdotnet user Bipindra has modified the default template for his project homepage in CodeGallery . Check out his "Lets make our applications smarter" marquee in the footer. CodeGallery is a new site on gotdotnet.com where you can...

If you are evaluating or using Visual Studio Team System (VSTS) to manage your software development lifecycle (SDLC) or if you are interested in developing on the Team System platform, you MUST check out this new gotdotnet workspace . PROJECT SERVER...

Two new CodeGallery projects worth calling out today: Snippy is a tool "developed to ease the life of those creating C# code snippets (aka code expansions) for Visual Studio. If you haven't heard about code snippets yet, they're a new feature we'll...