Korby Parnell's Social Software Wunderkammer

Link to an interesting article about the dimunition of search quality due to trackback and other weblog features....

Announcing a newly published whitepaper on source control integration for Visual Studio .NET by Alfredo Mendez....

Describes how to automagically embed source control metadata in your source files when performing various VSS operations....

The milk may not be going sour but our cartons are headed south....

Echoing a reader's suggestion that the .NET docs would be a great application of the wikiwiki concept......

thoughts of a newbie...

Announcing a cool new weblog community....

Explains how to move a database to a new server location or back one up....

Deterministic finalization and IVSS? Help!...

Conversation was lively and the camaraderie instant at the informal blogger's dinner last night in Bellevue. There was a good mix of Microsoft and non-Microsoft bloggers in attendance. I was fortunate enough to share one end of the table with: ...

Today is the First Annual Blog Your Cat Day . Cybil, guardian of the blogsphere Leilu, blogacat

I need a commuter bike. Any recommendations or bike buying strategies? My needs include: Sub $1,000 (new) Somewhat comfortable Excellent hill climbing gears Excellent brakes. All weather (Redmond is wet) On road mainly, but some gravel...

If you're in the Seattle area today, come join Scoble , Jeff Julian and who knows how many other geeks with blogs for dinner at the Crossroads Mall food court in Bellevue, WA at 6:30 PM. Coincidentally, Jeff posts a very nice picture of my second...

I recently created an internal WikiWiki for my feature team.* Initially, it consists of an ever-growing list of FAQs. I (and hopefully some of my teammates;-), are automatically apprised of changes to the FAQ pages via an RSS feed. Thus, if a...

A SourceSafe shadow folder is a UNC share* in which VSS maintains a current copy of the latest database version of every file in a SourceSafe project and all of its subprojects. When you or a teammate check in changes to a source-controlled file whose...

If you read my weblog on occasion, you may have noticed that I have steadfastly avoided the blogger clique: the Ruby's , the Winers , the Scobles . I have not taken a position on the RSS wars (unless you count linking to Don Box but not Sam or Dave...

It's true. Craig is now a blogger. Reader Chris Monachan recently asked in a comment to one of my posts, "...does the .NET IDE team have anyone like Raymond Chen, that perhaps reports on the historical reasons for doing stuff in the .NET IDE in their...

Last Friday, I posted a procedure for renaming source-controlled items in VS.NET that fails to mention one big gotcha: If you rename a file using Visual Studio .NET's Rename command, you lose its history--or at least the continuity of such--for the...

In response to my recent post, What is a Source Control Binding ?, reader Keith Hill writes, " A bit OT but do you know why VS.NET SCCI can't handle renaming projects once they are checked into a SCM system (ClearCase) is what I am using)? (.....

Raymond comes through again with a description of the difference between gigabytes and gibibytes . I wonder if Paul Allen refers to his boat as a megayacht or as a mebiyacht. I also wonder if there's a different latin prefix for powers of three, four...

I played racquetball yesterday against a Web developer who sometimes works as a vendor at Microsoft (a V-Dash in Microspeak). After he beat me soundly in three straight games, he asked me what a "programmer/writer" does on a daily basis. He had seen...

MSBuild is the [extensible, scalable, transparent] next generation build engine and platform for Visual Studio .NET. Many of our sharpest PMs, developers, testers, and yes, even writers, are feverishly working on this project. A number of folks with...

I received this incredibly interesting seminar invitation this morning. ABSTRACT: Even in busy online communities usually only a small fraction of members post messages. Why do so many people prefer to read and not contribute? In a survey ...

I'm amazed by how often I see this question on the newsgroups and listservers. faQ: How can I edit a file that another user has checked out? A: Allow Multiple Checkouts Iin VSS Administrator: Tools|Options|General|"Allow Mulitiple Checkouts". The...

Wunderkammer--a word that appears in the title of my blog--is a German word that means "wonder cabinet". I love this word, which so accurately and poetically describes the place, be it virtual or physical, where each of us stores the strange stuff...