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Jeff Sandquist on Microspotting

Posted Friday, May 16, 2008 1:32 PM by danielfe
Ariel interviews Jeff Sandquist , my manager on scary VPs and the dfiference between evangelists and apologists .   Best quote: "When I first started here, I was terrified of the higher ups. They were almost like Santa Claus — these mythical Read More...
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AddOn Studio for World of Warcraft V2 in the works

Posted Wednesday, May 14, 2008 12:03 PM by danielfe
I recently posted a high-level feature specification for version 2.0 of AddOn Studio for World of Warcraft on the projects Wiki which you can check out here .   Note: If you're new to Warcraft programming or are interested in getting started, I highly Read More...
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List of Microsoft employees mentioned in Microsoft 2.0

Posted Monday, May 05, 2008 3:01 PM by danielfe
I just finished reading Mary Jo Foley's new (unauthorized) book, Microsoft 2.0 : How Microsoft Plans to Stay Relevant in the Post Gates-Era . Amusing Part #1 came for me when I read the forward which was written by Mini-Microsoft , in Mary Jo's words, Read More...
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Popfly Game Creator Alpha Launches!

Posted Friday, May 02, 2008 11:09 AM by danielfe
Popfly Game Creator Alpha launches today and It's amazing. Kudos to Adam Nathan as he's really shown how Silverlight can build incredibly rich applications. I can only imagine what he'll do when Popfly moves to Silverlight 2! Here's the Channel 9 interview Read More...
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Settings1.Designer.cs Bug: Multiple settings files

Posted Sunday, April 27, 2008 7:11 PM by danielfe
I ran into this bug today which was unfortunately closed as can't repro. I was renaming some AppSettings variable names (right click on a Project's  Properties and go to the Settings tabs) and deleting some other settings, when I did a Search/Replace Read More...
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Live Mesh Launches

Posted Tuesday, April 22, 2008 10:09 PM by danielfe
Live Mesh is a new technology and platform that enables synchronization and storage "to the cloud." It was officially unveiled tonight and lots of the usual suspects are providing their thoughts including Robert Scoble , Kip Kniskern from LiveSide , TechCrunch Read More...
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Top 6 Pet Peeves from an MSDN Editor

Posted Thursday, April 10, 2008 10:56 AM by danielfe
Read the article here I don't fully agree with the bullet point pet peeves as I think they're very useful for listing things like properties or using numbered lists for sequential events, but it's certainly a good list for anyone writing technical articles Read More...
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Someone should remake The A-Team for Cable TV

Posted Monday, April 07, 2008 2:18 PM by danielfe
Crazy Idea #5150 Cue the background military music and authoritative announcer: Ten years ago / In 1972, a crack commando unit was sent to prison by a military court for a crime they didn't commit. These men promptly escaped from a maximum security stockade Read More...
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Channel 9 Spam Video Filter Beta Launched

Posted Tuesday, April 01, 2008 7:16 AM by danielfe
In an on-going effort to ensure that Channel 9 videos only display appropriate content, the Channel 9 Dev Team recently ported the spam feature to filter existing video content. I think you'll be pleasantly surprised by the results of our first tests Read More...
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Microsoft the Contest Machine

Posted Monday, March 17, 2008 3:04 PM by danielfe
Last updated: 5/9/08 NOTE: If you've been forwarded a link to this blog post, it's likely that one of your colleagues thinks you should do your due diligence before thinking a contest is the fastest road to salvation. It isn't, here's why... I'm starting Read More...
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Microspotting lands an interview with Mini-Microsoft

Posted Wednesday, February 27, 2008 3:38 PM by danielfe
Kudos to Ariel Stallings , Microsoft employee and author the Microspotting blog (one of my favorite new blogs) on landing a virtual Mini-Microsoft interview . My personal opinion of Mini is a bit mixed, and I've definitely disagreed with Mini in the past Read More...
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Popfly Nominated for C|Net WebWare 100!

Posted Tuesday, February 26, 2008 5:41 PM by danielfe
Kudos to the Popfly team for being nominated to C|Net's Webware 100 ! If you like Popfly, as John mentions , go out and vote for them Read More...
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Session Notes: Life on the Bungie Farm: Fun Things to do with 180 servers and 350 processors

Posted Thursday, February 21, 2008 11:48 PM by danielfe
Speakers: Luis Villegas, Sean Shypula from Bungie Distributed client/server system split up, runs it in parallel processes user submitted tasks in parallel 180 rackmounted machines 300 processes can use Advantages speed up time consuming tasks - (rendering Read More...
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Panel: Future of MMOs

Posted Thursday, February 21, 2008 1:56 PM by danielfe
Speakers: MC of event, Jon Wood - Managing Editor MMORPG.com Jack Emmert - Founder, Cryptic Studios, Champions Online, City of Heroes/Villans One other person, Mark Jacobs or "Matt" from Cryptic Ray Muzyka - General Manager of Bioware, haven't Read More...
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Keynote: The Next 20 Years of Gaming

Posted Thursday, February 21, 2008 1:52 PM by danielfe
Speaker: Ray Kurzweil [Aside: One of the best talks I've ever been to...ever] Rough notes below Acceleration of Progress Studying exponential growth of technology Games are the cutting edge, VR will be more competitive VR advantages - become someone else, Read More...
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