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Been busy getting Office14 out the door. One thing keeping me busy is crashes buckets from Office 2007. When an application crashes, it will send information back as to where the program was when it crashed. These crashes are analyzed and grouped together
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I was asked “How do I fix more bugs?” The answer is to own buggier areas! Devs who own buggy areas (best when not through some fault of their own) will resolve more bugs because more bugs will be incoming. Another is to file bugs and fix them. Not dumb
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I’ve noticed one thing in my travels through airports: power is king . I routinely bring a laptop and MP3 player stocked with music and movies to watch during the flight but I always over prepare incase I get stuck waiting. But all of this is for naught
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Like SmartArt but wish there was more flexibility in customizing its shapes? We added just such a feature in Office 2007 SP2 which gives you the ability to ungroup a given diagram in PowerPoint. Just right click the border of a top level diagram and choose
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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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Practically every book I see advertised on The Daily Show I've gotten at my local library. But this sometimes leaves me with tons of books piled up to read. So I started getting the books on CD when I can and using the CD changer in my car to queue up
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I bought a place back in September and had just this week gotten things mostly settled. Then today some people knocked on my door. I opened, and there were 3 men, 2 women and baby. It sounded like the makings of some kind of movie sequel, but not the
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Take this for example: #include <iostream> #include <iomanip> class Storage { public : Storage() : m_val( -1 ) {} int m_val; }; class Holder { public : Holder() : m_double( 50000 ) {} union { double m_double; struct { Storage m_storage; int
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According to many Slashdot commenters , the answer was clearly “Yes! Just be tactful and careful, and make it über geeky.” Of course, those of us who live in the real world know the correct answer to be “Did you ask your boss first?” Otherwise, coding
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NASA recently tested their “ Deep Space Internet ” protocol. It sounds pretty slick, enabling more complex missions with multiple satellites or rovers all communicating to each other and back to earth. Unfortunately, we won’t be pinging any satellites
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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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In an effort to cut down on my water and towel bills, I’ve started biking to work. Thanks to free showers and free towels (plus free soap and free locker), I can now spend the money saved by showering at work on things needed to maintain the bike. Honestly,
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http://channel8.msdn.com/Posts/Hey-Genius-Meet-Chris-Becker/
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I’ve been using Hyper-V for a couple weeks and have been pleasantly surprised at how much benefit it’s brought me. What I love best is how I can start up a VM on my server box, add a network card and then log into it using remote desktop on another box.
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