I've gotten a few questions from folks about CodePlex and GotDotNet - does the former replace the latter? Why have both? Jim talks about it on his blog. Short answer, they're both around because that's the right thing to do right now. CodePlex is in...

Doug posts a question about how you handle accountability in a Scrum world. If the team doesn't meet its iteration goals a few times in a row, what happens? I just wanted to post this hoping to get some more people involved in the conversation there....

The picture is a little blurry - but it was pretty cool... Beat that one, Sandy! <g>

Since I've been writing about new releases from our team this week, here's one more - a bunch of enhancements to the MSDN Forums. You can read Jana's list here .

I've been spending some time unpacking (6 boxes and 1 computer left to go) but I thought I'd take a break and post a picture of the view from my new office. Very green...

Julie Lerman points to an instance of WCF in Montreal . Well, I got one too. <g> (click to enlarge)

We've had two things ship recently: CodePlex and the Microsoft Feeds Directory. CodePlex is a community site for developers to innovate and participate in collaborative development projects. CodePlex is currently in beta. For more details, check out...

I'm still drinking from a firehose, learning all about working in this new world that I find myself in. Had a meeting with an architect in MSDN search - turns out he used to work in Fox support - he used to recommend Codebook a lot. Small world. Anyway...

I mentioned this in my last blog entry, but thought I should make it more discoverable. We've released the May Community Tech Preview for Linq . Everything I talked about here at Devteach is available for the download. I just spoke to an attendee named...

It's almost 5pm on Wednesday - Devteach is moving along really well. The keynote went well - spoke all about LINQ, DLinq and XLinq and things that are now available in the new CTP . People liked the new LINQ designer, and my quick demo of Linq over Datasets...

Forgot to mention this one. I've uploaded my OPML to Share.OPML.org . It should be interesting to see what kinds of things this can lead to.

It's 12:30am, and I've gone thru my keynote once again - just making sure that everything is set up properly. Time to get some sleep so I'm ready for the 8am talk. Should be a lot of fun, I always enjoy showing off the work that the LINQ team is doing...

As I prepare for my new gig at MSCOM, I’m cleaning up things from my current position – archiving emails, making sure sharepoint sites are updated, things like that. I’m also preparing for my trip to Devteach next week (with a quick stop at VTDotNet on...

So, let’s talk a little more about my new position and what it means for Visual FoxPro and the community. As you know, I spent the last few years as Group Manager for VS Data – that meant that I had two major products that I worried about: Visual Studio...

Ken posted a while back about his “monsters of rock” group of folks at Live. Well, I feel the same about the new team that I’m working with. Every one of them is as crazy about community and customers as I am <g>. Here are a few of the folks I’ll...

A few people have asked me why I opted to move from a Group Manager role to an architect role. Well, there are a few reasons: One of the awesome things about Microsoft is that there’s a clear career path whether you manage people or don’t. So...

This is a copy of a post I left on the VS Data blog. Sorry for the dupe - but I want folks who are new to this blog to have context: ---------- As many of you know, after a major release, people at Microsoft tend to look around to see what they...

As I move to a new team and phase in my Microsoft career, I thought it made sense to start my own blog instead of continuing on my old team blog . So, welcome! Excuse the mess while I get things set up... .