RFC 1925 : 2.3 With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine. However, this is not necessarily a good idea. It is hard to be sure where they are going to land, and it could be dangerous sitting under them as they fly overhead.

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Offices with windows are distributed according to years of service, not according to seniority or position on the management ladder. When group moves, it receives a block of offices which usually consists of approximately 50/50 mix of window and inner...

Ben went to the Windows land, but his office has not been sitting empty for long. Today we welcome our new team member, Jim Bresler. He was our summer intern in 2004 and 2003 so he is almost up to date on what is going on around here. Now he is with...

Check out this great post on teams with ship discipline. Scot was my first dev lead when I joined Microsoft back in '97. You can look at which teams did he manage at Microsoft here .

As you might know, VS 2005 does not provide file template for the classic ASP page. You can make one following instructions on MSDN . Or just download the one I made from here . 1. Download ASPPage.zip and place it in ...\Program Files\Microsoft Visual...

Interesting post . I have seen people keeping around a lot of machines. For me, multiple machines produces too much noise :-(. I personally have been trying to keep a single machine + laptop. Usually at the end of the product cycle (such as now) I...

Quite a few people were unable to make VS 2005 to hit breakpoints in the server script in classic ASP pages. Little surprise here since the way we do ASP debugging changed since VS 2003 and there little or no information currently in VS 2005 Beta 2 docs...

Here is patent that we filed on the method, which we invented in order to solve that old known problem .

Did you know that on fast machine idle time processing can kick in even if from you point of view application is not really idle? Take, for example, MFC. It calls OnIdle when application message queue becomes empty. Now, imagine that you are typing something...

Today we had going away lunch with Ben (aka Design view dude ). What is that 'going away lunch' thing? It is a good Microsoft tradition to buy a lunch for the entire team when someone leaves. Have a lunch together, listen to war stories, say goodbuy...

This post made me thinking what can you do to make Visual Web Developer to behave like Visual Notepad :-). Here is what you can do to switch off certain features and make startup time shorter and editor more responsive. 1. Hide properties window...

If you want to have a peek how exactly do we provide intellisense, validation and other language features in server script blocks, have look at this patent application ( 20050125730 ). VSIP SDK provides information on interfaces that you need to implement...

I recently purchased an interesting product called PlusDeck2 which is essentially cassette deck that you install in the PC, connect to the sound card and COM port. It comes with software that automates conversion process by controlling deck via the COM...

Recently it was my turn to perform BFD duties. What is the BFD you said? Well, let’s start from the beginning. Visual Studio division has a large build lab which is building and servicing multiple branches of the code. There are large branches called...