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I've been posting some comments about Indigo on my other blog - feel free to subscribe if you're interested in Indigo. Here are some of the Indigo entries I've written: http://galactic-patrol.blogspot.com/2005/02/indigo-is-re-released-into-wild.html http://galactic-patrol.blogspot.com/2005/02/to-indigo-clr-contract-is-not.html Read More...
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This is the story of an inspirational speech that, well – wasn’t. I went to a divisional meeting recently – lots of people, lots of powerpoint. The topics were a bit dry, and the last speaker was clearly trying to drum up some excitement Read More...
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I made the following challenge over on Channel 9 – anyone care to take up the gauntlet? “That takes me back - when I started at Microsoft eight years ago, I worked in the Windows build lab. This was back when we were working on SUR, and IIS Read More...
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Wow, Pat Helland is blogging – that’s too cool. Update: for those who don't know of Pat - he is very knowledgeable about distributed architecture issues, and also has a wonderful way of explaining them. If you ever get a chance to hear him Read More...
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I published this info when I started my GotDotNet blog ; with the move, now is a good time to re-present the info: Bruce Williams I am a test developer for Indigo – current and future Web Services technology at Microsoft. e-mail : bwill@microsoft.com Read More...
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Eric Lippert has a great post describing some of his adventures with security issues in VBScript. I particularly liked this segment: “Of course, it could be worse. There was a bug in early versions of the CLR (which I believe was fixed before Read More...
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Peter’s response to my TiVo post for some reason reminded me of a rambling e-mail conversation I had several months ago; for your amusement I repeat it below. Incidentally, mail threads like this are reason #128 why I like working at Microsoft… Read More...
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In a response to my recent post on fault injection , Mark asks if I know of any publicly-available fault-injection frameworks. Yes! In fact, much of the fault-injection work done at Microsoft is built on top of work done by Microsoft Research, Read More...
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I noticed this link to Wesner Moise’s comments on Microsoft’s “Avalon” technology, to be debuted at PDC. I’m certainly no Avalon expert, but I’ve been to their internal web site, and saw a demo once. This is killer stuff. Not wanting Read More...
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We have occasional debates here at Microsoft on the value of ‘white-box’ testing. (For the sake of this discussion, ‘white-box’ testing means testing that takes advantage of internal product knowledge, while ‘black-box’ testing relies solely on Read More...
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I’d like to talk about one of the first lessons I learned as a tester at Microsoft: Anticipate failure investigations, and log everything. Let me tell you a fairly rambling tale of my early days at Microsoft: We’d just shipped Windows NT 4.0 (and IIS Read More...
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I’ve never been to an industry conference (yet; I keep trying to convince my
management to send me…), but to my uneducated eye, this
pre-flight PDC checklist by Adam Cartwright looks eminently useful…
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Again, while reading this same Scoble post , it got me thinking about my role at Microsoft. When I tell people what I do at Microsoft, I say "I do software testing. If you find a bug in a Microsoft product, it is my fault." Of course, that Read More...
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I was reading this recent post on Scoble’s blog , where he talks about how he refers to “we” and “us” when talking about Microsoft. A friend of mine told me once that they found it unusual that I say "we" and "us" when referring to stuff that Microsoft Read More...
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Damn! I just found out that the Microsoft Company Meeting, a yearly event, is on October 30 th , and I will be out of town! Its hard to describe these meetings; but let me try. You walk into SafeCo field, Seattle’s new baseball stadium, and Read More...
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