As always seems to happen around the time of Microsoft's annual company meeting, it's relatively easy to find various people complaining about how Steve Ballmer's semi-public displays of enthusiasm for Microsoft seem silly or unprofessional. Before joining...

David Caulton is blogging about Zune at http://www.zunester.com/ . He's posted about codec and formats in Zune, topics I spent much of my time working on. His most recent post is on " Clearing up content formats ." Also check out his picture of " Zune...

Write-only code is a term used to describe code that can easily be written, but that no one but the original author can easily read. Since invariably far more time is spent reading code than writing it, this is NOT a positive term. Recently, while participating...

I clearly haven't written anything in here in forever. In March of this year, my family and I moved from California to Washington, and I now work on Zune on Microsoft's main campus in Redmond. (The picture to the right is of my kid playing with my Zune...