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Wednesday, August 30, 2006 7:47 AM

Community Convergence

This is the first in a series of blogs called Community Convergence that will appear both on the front page of the C# DevCenter , and also on my msdn blog site . Once the system is in place, the posts should appear in both places at approximately the
Posted by Charlie Calvert | 2 Comments
Friday, August 25, 2006 5:55 AM

The C# PM Team Goes to Dixie and Meets the Man

After hanging out with us all summer (and doing more than his share of excellent work), our intern Alex Turner headed back to school this evening. To send him off, the team went out to Dixie's, a favorite barbecue spot here in the Seattle area. Dixie’s
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Saturday, August 19, 2006 5:40 AM

Visual Studio.NET 2003 Service Pack 1 Released

Visual Studio 2005 is the preferred environment for developers who want to keep up with the latest C# and .NET technologies. Those who are still using Visual Studio.NET 2003, however, will want to download the new service pack for that IDE. The service
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Friday, August 18, 2006 11:18 PM

Code Climber: A Touch of Generics in the Morning

This article is meant as a gentle introduction to generics. It will be the first in a series of writings and multimedia files I’ll produce on this subject. Since this is the first technical blog I’ve written for Microsoft, I’ll say a few words by way
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Friday, August 18, 2006 6:41 AM

Crowdsourcing: Tracking Job Trends

There is an interesting article on Crowdsourcing by Jeff Howe in the June issue of Wired . Crowdsourcing is touted as the latest unexpected threat to our professional lives. In this case, companies advertise about a task that can be done remotely, and
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Thursday, August 10, 2006 3:44 AM

Borland Brings back the Turbo Name

There is news from our old friends at Borland. It looks like they are bringing back the Turbo name. There are many thousands of programmers who remember the great Turbo Pascal and Turbo C products from Borland. Well, now they are bringing the Turbo name
Posted by Charlie Calvert | 5 Comments
Thursday, August 10, 2006 12:43 AM

Scrum at the Agile 2006 Conference

It’s time to add some more information about my trip to the Agile 2006 Conference. One of the big themes that kept coming up at the conference was Scrum , a popular technique for implementing Agile technologies. The Scrum methodology was perhaps the most
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Wednesday, August 02, 2006 9:47 PM

Bio Added, Some Updates on the New Job

This is just a quick entry to say that I've filled in the About section of this blog with some biographical information. I’ll take advantage of this opportunity to add a few more notes about what my life has been like since I moved up here to Redmond
Posted by Charlie Calvert | 1 Comments
Wednesday, August 02, 2006 12:13 AM

The Agile 2006 Conference

I spent last week at the Agile 2006 conference in Minneapolis . I’m going to try to dig through my notes and produce a few rambling paragraphs to at least begin commemorating my experience. The conference was punctuated by many animated discussions, impassioned
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