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24 June 2008
Tech Telecommuters - What's Your "Third Place"?
Adventures in Telecommuting At Microsoft, I'm classified as a "mobile" employee.  That's code for "work where you can be productive".  Much of the time, that means home, and sometimes our Waltham, MA office where we have Read More...
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27 May 2008
Tips from My Technical Presentations
My role involves spending a good deal of time with technical audiences. Recently, I've been getting reactions like this - "I enjoyed your presentation! I have an odd question - how did you zoom in like that?" or "How did you set those colors in Visual Read More...
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12 October 2007
SkyDrive Doubles to 1GB Free Space
If you read my blog, you've seen that I've recently been trying the beta of Windows Live SkyDrive internet-based storage service for hosting my session materials. Cool news - the 500MB free space has now doubled to 1GB. They've also added some other nice Read More...
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14 June 2007
Whitepaper on Website A/B Testing
Dare blogged about an interesting whitepaper from the Microsoft Experimentation Team about the concept of A/B testing and applications for websites. "Practical Guide to Controlled Experiments on the Web: Listen to your Customers not to the HiPPO" Note Read More...
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19 April 2007
Cool Technology at Live Labs
If you haven't been to Microsoft Live Labs site before, take some time to review their latest technologies. PhotoSynth PhotoSynth is a very cool bit of technology. Here's their description: Photosynth is an amazing new technology from Microsoft Live Labs Read More...
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18 January 2007
Going Global
I recently received a small package from Wiley. I opened it to find a copy of my book ( Professional Visual Studio 2005 Team System .) Only this copy seemed... different. Why is Anaya Multimedia also listed on the cover? Why is "Professional" spelled Read More...
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13 January 2007
My Turn for the 5 Things Tagging Meme
Okay, I'm the last of Andy Beaulieu's group of 5 tagees to blog five things that people probably didn't know about me. So, to curtail any further guilt (and to replace it with shame?), here we go: I'm a very big fan of craft beer. I love checking out Read More...
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