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Tuesday, September 15, 2009 6:12 AM

Time Doth Flee

Just realized I’ve now been blogging on MSDN for a bit over two years- that covers two OS releases [Windows Server 2008 and Windows 7] and WDF releases [1.7 and 1.9]. To bow to the Dead again- a long, strange trip it has been. I started out wanting to
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Wednesday, September 02, 2009 7:44 AM

Yet another WDF Blogger

But that is a good thing.  With a post yesterday , Neslihan has made her MSDN blogs debut. As I said long ago , you can expect great things to come from her.  She is already our resident expert on all things WLK and particularly with respect
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Thursday, June 25, 2009 7:15 PM

He’s Gone

It has been a tough week, and a busy one.  I’m getting ready to leave on a vacation, and trying to get all those last-minute things done.  While my last post discussed the genesis of what I call the Configuration Agent and the WDF QA Universal
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Thursday, June 18, 2009 1:57 PM

Crazy is as crazy does

When I was an undergraduate at CalTech , my student residence - Ricketts House - had a tradition where we relieved some of the tedium and stress of the annual election for house officers [President, Vice-President, Social Vice-President, Secretary and
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Thursday, May 07, 2009 10:44 AM

Not all of them

Alas, all that stuff I mentioned in my last post won’t make it into the Windows 7 WDK. As we get close to the final days of the product cycle, it gets harder to justify code changes.  In this case, my own choices in handling odd cases were my undoing.
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Saturday, April 18, 2009 9:24 AM

Exceptions rule!

I’ve decided to revert to storytelling mode today.  So sit right back and you’ll hear a tale, a tale of my fateful trip (or click something useful- you’re the one deciding, and I’m the one typing to satisfy whatever inner demon has driven me to do
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Friday, March 13, 2009 6:22 AM

Progress

When I first got the idea of digging up my old tapes and digitizing them before I lost them for good, I was chatting with another ‘softie (I believe it may have been Craig Ziegler, who manages the test team for the WDK) at the big party during WinHEC
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Monday, February 09, 2009 11:14 PM

Motivation

What makes a person do what they do?  One thing we try to be at Microsoft (and another good attribute to have) is self-critical- to be able to objectively [to the best of our innate abilities,as it is hard to avoid some subjectivity in this domain]
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Saturday, February 07, 2009 9:52 AM

Patrick the Prankster

One aspect [at least on occasion] of life at Microsoft is some good-natured [well, at least,  hope that’s what it is] practical joking.  Patrick pulled off a couple of gems recently (I won’t name the targets, but they’d be well-known to the
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Thursday, January 22, 2009 11:46 PM

Well, yes and no...

I got involved (probably quite foolishly) in a discussion on the NTDEV mailing list that really wasn't much of my business yesterday, but I thought I'd expand a bit on my thoughts there, anyway. It probably sounds in one of my first posts there that I'm
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Thursday, November 13, 2008 5:41 PM

How Not to Write a Trip Report

This is lazy of me- but this is an edited (removed a few names and other details I shouldn't be including, and popped in a couple of hyperlinks, and corrected a few spelling and punctuation errors I noticed- I wrote this from a laptop, and they and I
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Tuesday, November 04, 2008 8:03 AM

A Suitable Day For Traveling

I got up this morning about 3:30 AM, and finished a little bit of packing, then headed for work.  It was dark, chilly, and it was raining at a good pace- all of those typical of this time of year at that time of day, here in Redmond.  My office
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Sunday, October 05, 2008 1:21 PM

DDC- the aftermath

Now that I've had some rest (overdid the long days during the conference, and it was pretty obvious I had by the time Wednesday rolled around), I'll round out my posts about the conference. Clear Proofs of My Lack of Divinity I suppose I started in bad
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Wednesday, October 01, 2008 6:32 AM

DDC Day 3 (and final) soon to come

In my post about yesterday , I left out an observation I feel the need to make.  My intent for listing the folks I met in the morning wasn't so much to drop names as to observe that (a) they were appreciative of what I have done in terms of blogging
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Tuesday, September 30, 2008 6:55 AM

DDC Day 2 is on its way

Yesterday was a long day for me. After my previous post , I headed over, registered, and got my speakers badge. As I sat getting my free breakfast [free food usually works out well for me], I was joined by a crew of community heavyweights, many of whom
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