Hi

I'm trying to figure out what blogging is all about, I was looking for inspiration by checking out blogs from people that I work with and I ran across Jay Bazuzi's; in his first post he mentions that most people end up posting only once, I think I started even worse than that, I opened the blog a couple of months ago and so far I hadn't posted anything yet.

I'm a test tech lead for the C# IDE team. What does a test tech lead do? I'm not sure yet myself, I'm trying to figure it out and so is my division at Microsoft. This position was recently created for those people who are solving technical problems for test teams and who are not in management roles. I guess I'll talk more about being a test tech lead in the future.

My team works on the C# language services in the Visual Studio shell. We test that all the shell services (editor, designers, etc.) work with C# projects as well as the C# intellisense features (autocomplete, refactoring, snippets, etc.). I personally test the Extract Method and Extract Interface refactorings as well as a few small intellisense features. 

Some of the things I'm interested in talking about are:

• Testing software, after all this is what I do most of the days.
• C# IDE features, the product that we are working on.
• Software or computers
• Mexico, where I'm from.

...as I was reading other people's blogs, I noticed that most of them have interesting names. I didn't want to postpone starting a weblog any longer so for a moment I decided to name it after what my devs call me but then thanks to dictionary.com I found out that it has several not pleasant meanings. I wonder what the devs actually meant...

Gabriel