Scoble ponders about how Agile methodologies such as Scrum can be applied to Visual Studio, Office or Windows teams in his Another test of "is Microsoft listening" post. Scrum is everywhere now. Even Scoble talks about it. I do firmly believe that...

Thought it might be helpful to list out ways you can vent if you are mad about our products. :) Product Feedback Center : http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/ProductFeedback/ All bugs or suggestions you enter automatically get entered into our internal...

No matter how hard you try, you cannot make every single customer happy with the product you ship. There will be bugs and someone will get seriously mad after fighting with your product for several days. I received an email from a very angry customer...

Agile Development relies heavily on human interactions. User stories intentionally leave out details so that people can talk. Team members sit together so that they can interact with each other always. It emphasizes human side of software development...

Peter van Ooijen @ Codebetter.com talked about RAD experience in Visual Studio 2005 . He does a great job of highlighting useful features and also provide gotchas that developers should be aware of. By the way, if your job involves writing software and...

Visual Studio 2005: The Difference is Obvious Expand your skill set and increase your value in the job market. Check out the new Visual Basic 2005 Webcasts and find out how to receive a complimentary Visual Studio 2005 Discovery Pack. Great chance...

Learned this neat trick today. This obviously is not well-known. I've been dealing with SQL for many years and haven't heard of this till today. MSDN article on SET FMTONLY One very useful application of this trick is to get the schema of result...

Refactoring Databases: Evolutionary Database Design Scott W. Ambler, Pramodkumar J. Sadalage Addison Wesley Signature Series If you know who Scott Ambler is, then you definitely want to read this latest book he wrote. If you don't know who Scott Ambler...

When I told the team at my previous company that I was joining Microsoft, there were few who showed their disappointments. I was their Agile cheer-leader and they couldn't believe that I chose Microsoft. Why move all the way across the country (NY ->...

Today, Microsoft announced its plan to make SQL Server 2005 Everywhere Edition available later this year. This one is targeted for what we call Occationally Connected Systems (OCS) such as mobile devices. Links: SQL Server 2005 Update from Paul...

Neat trick on SELECTing random rows using NewID() function. Select random rows from a table in SQL ( TechRepublic )

Robert Scoble is leaving Microsoft and he's joining Google . Be sure to read his post. It's the best post he's ever done.