October 2008 - Posts

MSDN at PDC 2008, or "why bookmarking is like fire insurance"
After four days of speaking with a total of 269 developers at PDC in Los Angeles about MSDN Bookmarking , I have a pretty good idea what you think of it. Nearly all of the response at the booth was very positive, with a few in-depth conversations yielding Read More...
Posted 31 October 08 12:32 by cslemp | 0 Comments   
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Under the Azure skies of PDC 2008
I couldn't resist getting Azure into the title of my first post from PDC 2008 . The day started with what I'm sure will come to be known as "the keynote that started it all." Ozzie's vision of what cloud-computing will do in the shape of Azure Read More...
Posted 27 October 08 11:56 by cslemp | 2 Comments   
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MSDN Social + fine-tuned SQL 2008 = speed, sweet speed
Today we released an update with a number of performance enhancements, some of which I referred to in my previous post . I decided that now was a good time to compare our performance with some other leading sites that we might be compared to. I opened Read More...
Posted 23 October 08 07:27 by cslemp | 2 Comments   
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Behind the scenes of the Microsoft Social platform
Image via Wikipedia I’d like to bring a little focus on some of the cool things going on behind the scenes with the Social platform that underpins our search , social bookmarking , and forums apps. We’ve spent the last month optimizing performance for Read More...
Posted 16 October 08 09:47 by cslemp | 3 Comments   
Podcast: Tony Soper gets it! Why IT Pros should bookmark
Tony Soper of virtualization user assistance documentation fame (not to mention a top bookmarker), recorded a podcast with myself and Chris Kilbourn, lead site manager for TechNet. His companion blog post is a great summary of reasons that IT Pros should Read More...
Posted 14 October 08 07:14 by cslemp | 2 Comments   
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Top 10 Bookmarkers on MSDN and TechNet for September 2008
We’d like to give kudos to our top bookmarkers as of September 30, 2008. These are the people that are on the leading edge of driving new content onto MSDN and TechNet. I removed a few of the people from our own team, as they’re kind of expected to use Read More...
Posted 06 October 08 09:35 by cslemp | 2 Comments   
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More MSDN (and TechNet) Library tips
John Martin posted today about a few things you should do in the library: bookmark , search with our site search and the new Code Search , try ( loband ), and contribute to the community content . I’ve got a few more hidden gems for you: Show/Hide TOC Read More...
Posted 02 October 08 01:51 by cslemp | 0 Comments   

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