Datelens by Human-Computer Interaction Lab at U of MD Calendar applications for small handheld devices such as PDAs are growing in popularity. This led us to develop DateLens, a novel calendar interface that supports not only PDAs, but a range of devices...

Visual Studio Team System Dave Bost is getting ready to take on the challenge of installing Visual Studio 2005 Beta 1 Refresh with Visual Studio Team System: “Ever since last May, when Microsoft announced Team System to the world at Tech Ed 2004...

Tech·Ed 2005 Call For Papers The Tech•Ed 2005 organizers invite you to submit proposals to speak at Tech•Ed in our conference breakout sessions. Tech•Ed is one of Microsoft’s most important annual technical training events, and our speaker selection process...

Visual Studio Team System Online Chat MSDN Online Chat : New Features in Visual Studio 2005 Team System December 1, 2004 5:30 PM - 6:30 PM PST December 2, 2004 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM PST Join members of the Visual Studio Team System team [including yours truly...

A few months ago I created an identity on Wallop , a research project from the Social Computing Group at Microsoft Research : http://mywallop.com/WallopFrames.aspx?start_id=1057304&start_type=ly Here's the HTML version of it: http://mywallop.com/public...

PureText by Steve Miller Have you ever copied some text from a web page, a word document, help, etc., and wanted to paste it as simple text into another application without getting all the formatting from the original source? PureText makes this simple...

My Text is not my own ...I am here to give you the real insider scoop on the secret agenda of technology. Disregard who invented the Internet. Ignore the man behind the curtain waving his arms wildly. The secret agenda of technology is to make writers...

Constanze Roman - Writing documentation for mobile devices Mike Hall took his camcorder over to the mobile devices team and met with Constanze Roman, a programming writer. They talk about what working as a documentation writer is like. Video length: 00...

Open the flood gates - here's what happens when you've been a slug about blogging... Team System PowerPoint slides from Visual Studio 2005 Team System presentations at DevConnections in Las Vegas (November 2004). - Microsoft Download Center and Brian...

Safari Bookshelf - MSDN What is Safari Safari Bookshelf is the premier e-reference library for programmers and IT professionals. Unlike an online bookstore, Safari lets subscribers: Search across thousands of electronic books simultaneously. Read the...

Do you have an easy way to find out what error codes mean? You should check out err.exe available from http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=be596899-7bb8-4208-b7fc-09e02a13696c . Don't be tricked by the name (Exchange Server Error...

From: mike's web log Peter Cooper has some tips for reducing the size of your text by about two-thirds to substantially improve it and "make it shine." Apropo of our previous discussion of Strunk & White's The Elements of Style .

UML, DSL & Software Factories Alan Cameron Wills has a post in which he responds to a comment to his previous post on the DSL tools release ( DSL tools available ): Why not base domain specific languages on UML? Firstly, just to reiterate – we do...

DSL Tools Newsgroup If you want to discuss the DSL tools, be sure to visit the DSL tools newsgroup, as Gareth Jones indicates in this post: Using our newsgroup with an nntp client We've set up a newsgroup for discussion of our DSL Tools - microsoft.private...

Two quotes that hit the spot for me today: "Say all you have to say in the fewest possible words, or your reader will be sure to skip them; and in the plainest possible words or he will certainly misunderstand them." - John Ruskin "A writer is a person...

Team Foundation Version Control For months you've been reading blog posts on Team Foundation version control (the feature formerly known as Hatteras) from the likes of Buck Hodges , Jason Barile , Korby Parnell , Sam Mullis , Jim Presto , Chris Rathjen...

UPDATE (11/09) - VSTS Event Tonight If you're in Toronto this evening, be sure to stop by the Toronto VB User Group : Tuesday, November 9, 2004 at 7:00 pm A Lap Around Visual Studio Team System Domain Specific Tools On Friday, Microsoft announced the...

My team (Visual Studio Team System User Education) is looking for a Programming Writer , which is a technical writer who writes reference and conceptual documentation for the developer audience. Here's the listing from the Microsoft Careers site: Programming...

DSL Tools Workbench is Now Available As discussed at OOPSLA, we are releasing the first salvo of tools with the Microsoft tools for domain specific languages (October 2004 Release). The DSL Tools workbench ( DSL Tools Workbench ) is the first workbench...

Chris Sells - How do you become an MSDN author? Chris Sells, program manager at MSDN and the guy who runs the Longhorn Developer Center on MSDN, talks about how you too can write for MSDN.

Maps like these remind me of this book: The Visual Display of Quantitative Information Critical Section - electoral mapmanship Yesterday I noted the 2004 county-by-county electoral college map. Today Command Post has the same map along with the corresponding...

Busy, busy, busy...I've been holding off on blogging until I could spend more time on the post, but that has resulted in a lot of stuff to blog. I'm just going to dump my queue without commentary to keep the info flowing. Here's what's in my queue: Software...

"That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind." At 10:56 pm EDT on July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong became the first human to set foot on the Moon. After the flight Neil said that he had intended to say "one small step for a man". Andy and I...

Domain-Specific Language Tools Christopher Bowen had an early look at the DSL tools and had some comments that he can now share ( Microsoft Announces Metadata Framework and DSL Toolkit ). OOPSLA Michael Lehman, who recently worked with the team that's...

OOPSLA Postings Some more blog posts from OOPSLA in Vancouver, BC: Building DSLs in VS ( Harry Pierson ) Other MSFT Bloggers at OOPSLA ( Harry Pierson ) Report from OOPSLA ( Keith Short ) We're out in the open - what tools are you going to build? ( Gareth...