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A quick note: you can now download Office 2007 SP2 or read more about it here . There are some pretty sweet things in this update that I got to work on; I'll touch on "...more control over the appearance of SmartArt graphics" in a later post.
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Many exciting things have been happening since we shipped Office 2007, but most have been "hush hush". As in "Chris, don't tell your friends you're working on TOTAL AWESOME FEATURE X as you will make them jealous." But not all my time is spent on cool
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It’s finally arrived, proof of the Microsoft engineer’s celebrity status ! What’s the first thing you see in the following picture? ( collider.com ) ( much bigger version ) That’s right, it’s Office 2007! I always wonder what low level movie set intern
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Two dozen years is a long time to be involved in software. That’s why I’d like to take this time to thank God I've only been alive that long and this is only my 3rd year in industry. Imagine what it must be like, to have worked in Software in 1983? You'd
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Now what? Some tips: Know your resume – If you don't, it will bite you. Diversify your conversation between interviews – All your interviewers will get together and talk about you later. If you said the same thing to all, they won't have much to talk
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I'm here at Imagine Cup giving demos and showing off our cool products. Having people come up to you and say “Wow, I really love what you’ve done with it!” is a real thrill. I even had people come up saying “PowerPoint? Doesn’t that suck?” only to be
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Assignments in college come with specific parameters for good grades. If the project assigned doesn't have some kind of guidance onto how it will be graded, it's impossible to know when you're finished. But what if your boss came to you and said we need
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I've been asked on more than one occasion: "Should I get a masters degree?" Short answer is no. Long answer is that depends. Computer Science Masters A master in computer science will teach you more than a bachelors. You can look up any course list and
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Moving was fun. At least I thought it was fun. I had absolutely no furniture, so before the movers came to take my stuff I bought just about all the furniture a friend of mine had since she was moving into a smaller place and didn’t need it all. Needless
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You need to strive to have good impact, but as a software developer in industry you will have impact. It will be felt by hundreds or thousdands or millions of people. It is a scary thought. Going to college, I had never written a program that more than
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