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For Justin: How I got here

Posted Wednesday, April 28, 2004 11:57 PM by jledgard
I guess I'm monopolizing the “Ledgard” search on google nowadays. Recently I received this mail from Justin Ledgard (no relation that I know of)... Hey, i just put my name into a search engine to see what would come up with and i got this Read More...
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Ignoring the "A-List" by Optimizing Your Blog Reading

Posted Tuesday, April 27, 2004 10:29 PM by jledgard
Inspired by this post and recalling a conversation I had a couple weeks ago with Korby I began to notice how my own news/blog reading changed for the better once I started doing it efficiently. The problem discussed was about how certain individuals are Read More...
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Tips for Using Macros in Visual Studio

Posted Tuesday, April 27, 2004 10:13 AM by jledgard
Over @ the Powertoys blog I posted an article with tips for using Macros inside Visual Studio . I really just wanted it to be a simple list of instructions that walked people through how they could use the macro code posted to the blog. I ended up walking Read More...
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Chris Sells on Posts and replies

Posted Monday, April 26, 2004 10:16 PM by jledgard
I recently asked Chris to weigh in on the topic of NNTP, web forums, RSS, listserves, etc. In short; he wants them all wrapped up into a neat little package. But here are some choice quotes from hist post: http://www.sellsbrothers.com/spout/#PostReplyAlphabetSoup Read More...
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What I've been Waiting for... Progressive Scan Xbox Dashboard Available

Posted Monday, April 26, 2004 4:25 PM by jledgard
I haven't made a post that fit into my Xbox category for a while, but if this is true I'm going to be one happy customer who can now throw out the cheap switch I had rigged up. http://news.teamxbox.com/xbox/5724/Progressive-Scan-Dashboard-Available Yes, Read More...
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VisualBlogger 2004 Feedback

Posted Sunday, April 25, 2004 2:03 PM by jledgard
So I just grabbed Visual Blogger from Robert Mclaws. Good stuff that I'm confident it will only get cooler. For some reason I dislike having to go through the web UI to make my posts, so this type of tool is right up my alley. Here are some suggestions Read More...
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Scoble is a Good Thief; Steal this Post

Posted Sunday, April 25, 2004 12:45 PM by jledgard
Scoble has decided to stop his “ illegal quoteblog ”. Too bad. Robert's strength really has been his ability to connect people. In his own blog, he adds commentary to interesting topics started by people I would have never found on my own. Read More...
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Write an Add-In; Win Cool Prizes

Posted Thursday, April 22, 2004 10:19 AM by jledgard
What great timing. Just after we started the PowerToys Blog Roy announced he was organizing a Add-in/Macro coding contest ! You may have noticed the added decoraction on the side of my blog if you read it in Web form. I love it when stars align. I'm hoping Read More...
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Check out the Powertoys Weblog! (You can never have enough tools)

Posted Wednesday, April 21, 2004 11:06 AM by jledgard
Almost a year ago we launched a static Powertoys page on gotdotnet. Today that page is no longer static! We're now feeding http://www.gotdotnet.com/team/ide with live content from the new Powertoys weblog . Overtime this site will become a categorized Read More...
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The more I think about it... NNTP Doesn't Cut It

Posted Monday, April 19, 2004 10:13 PM by jledgard
So I've been posting ideas about how we could best merge NNTP usefulness and feature rich web solutions @ Microsoft. The 3rd plan I outlined involves cutting ties with NNTP and creating a better offline client that also supports the added features of Read More...
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RSS on Ipod : How it should be done

Posted Monday, April 19, 2004 9:34 PM by jledgard
So this post has some good information on a product called Ipod Agent. It essentially lets you have rss feeds displayed on your Ipod. It also lets you sync your outlook information as well. I've tried this stuff out, but IMO the Ipod display was really Read More...
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Where was this when?!?!?! (pinvoke.net)

Posted Monday, April 19, 2004 8:46 PM by jledgard
Where was http://pinvoke.net when I was writing bunches of our test automation platform that is essentially a lot of pinvoke calls? This could be a cool resource. Enjoy! Read More...
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Visual Studio Team Biography Program Started

Posted Monday, April 19, 2004 1:37 PM by jledgard
Check out the biographies page that has been set up here . Members of the “Core” Visual Studio team were asked to submit their biographies to this site. You can check out what I wrote here . I think it’s cool that they have also decided Read More...
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Good Feedback on my Brainstorming

Posted Saturday, April 17, 2004 1:29 PM by jledgard
Daniel left some great comments in response to my brainstorming that I wanted to call out and respond to. I think one of the problems with my post is that I labeled things as “transition“ plans. Yes. I do believe there will be a transition Read More...
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The Return of Strange Googlings

Posted Friday, April 16, 2004 5:50 PM by jledgard
Being out sick most of the week and the prescription strength cold medication I’ve been put on had me in the mood to go through my referral logs again in search more strange googlings ! Writing Real Well Sir, you clicked on the wrong link. You searched Read More...
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Brainstorming Results of Online Discussion Solutions

Posted Thursday, April 15, 2004 7:09 PM by jledgard
As promised… My first thoughts on some solutions to the problems I mentioned yesterday . I chatted today with one of the guys behind some of the central Microsoft community efforts such as the MS public newsgroup site. We talked about how it was Read More...
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MVP Summit Views and Issues with Threaded Discussions

Posted Wednesday, April 14, 2004 9:30 PM by jledgard
During the MVP summit I made it my mission to seek out as much feedback from anyone who would talk to me about newsgroups, web forums, and the general scenarios around the people who answer a lot of questions and the people who need to find or ask for Read More...
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More Good Whidbey Feedback

Posted Tuesday, April 13, 2004 9:18 PM by jledgard
Steve has some great impresions here . And I love the attitude of the post title! Some highlights follow... “ I used to be one of those people who said code behind was joke, created extra files and was a PITA to migrate from one machine to another. Read More...
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Sound On/Off As part of the Window Title Bar?

Posted Tuesday, April 13, 2004 7:57 PM by jledgard
Mitch read my post and thinks so. I'm actually thinking that this might confuse users since there are legitimate reasons for sound from the window. The app just has to know when the user asked for sound and when the user didn't. It's just like the pop-up Read More...
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Cleaning up my Web Browsing

Posted Monday, April 12, 2004 12:33 PM by jledgard
I received a bunch of responses to this post about all the new ads. I've played around with all of the solutions proposed over the last 2 days. Here are my comments. AdSubtract : This app seems to do the best at eliminating adds. It removed all the animations, Read More...
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Maximizing the Reach of your Unique Strengths

Posted Saturday, April 10, 2004 2:17 PM by jledgard
Eric Carter asks if Microsoft is approaching community in the right way ? My response follows: I don't believe there is singular "best" approach for Microsoft to participate in the community that is as simple as “Spend time doing X”. I think Read More...
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Why its Finally OK to block Pop-up Ads

Posted Saturday, April 10, 2004 12:48 PM by jledgard
So IE finally has an integrated pop-up blocker! This is great news for the millions of PC users that had not yet downloaded the google toolbar. I believe that it finally became OK for web browsers to do this because advertisers already have alternatives Read More...
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Seven Dwarfs Compete to be the Apprentice

Posted Saturday, April 10, 2004 11:34 AM by jledgard
Sometimes I just wish Donald would just fire 2-3 of these people at a time. I'm not sure any of them should be running a piece of the Trump corporation. I guess there are reasons why he loses tons of money every year on pretty much everything but this Read More...
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Random MVP Summit Notes

Posted Friday, April 09, 2004 11:55 PM by jledgard
I'm still working on digesting the detailed notes I took while engaging in discussions about online discussions and Microsoft's role in the community, but here are some random thoughts I had during the summit. More themed discussions: On Tuesday there Read More...
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More MVP Blogs to Read

Posted Friday, April 09, 2004 10:10 PM by jledgard
If you work at MS you should be listening to these guys and if you don't work @ MS the MVP's have some great content available. Someday MVP's will be highlighted on product team web pages, but until then, here is a great resource of MVP blogs. http://www.msmvps.com/ Read More...
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Visual Studio 2005 blog Feedback Hunt

Posted Friday, April 09, 2004 8:46 PM by jledgard
I've been watching a few feedster searches for feedback on the CTP builds of Whidbey. I figured I'd share some of the information I've found. If you want to keep up on this yourself search for “visual 2005” or “Whidbey” or “CTP”. Read More...
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Visual Studio 2005 Release Notes on a Community Wiki

Posted Wednesday, April 07, 2004 4:25 PM by jledgard
Philip Reick has started a Visual Studio 2005 Community Tech Preview (CTP) changelog and readme wiki . I posted the fixes to two of the most common problems I've seen blogged about so far and I encourage the community (that includes VS Team members) to Read More...
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MVP Summit Thank You

Posted Tuesday, April 06, 2004 5:20 PM by jledgard
To echo the first slide presented by every executive today I wanted to give a “mid MVP conference thank you” to all of the MVP’s. Specifically thanks to Jacob, Ian, Robert, Eric, Paul, Steven, Daniel, and many other for chatting with Read More...
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MVP Summit Kick Off

Posted Sunday, April 04, 2004 10:53 PM by jledgard
I was at the MVP Summit welcome reception tonight. It was awesome to finally meet some of the people I've been talking to on-line for a long time. It was also cool to talk to all the new people I didn't know beforehand. At least three people read my name Read More...
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More PC Laptop Issues

Posted Saturday, April 03, 2004 9:51 PM by jledgard
I guess it's OK to vent our own frustrations about PC laptops here. I have both a Sony Vaio and a Toshiba Tablet currently. One for home and one for work. Having had both of these laptops for over two years I've had to replace both batteries. Thankfully Read More...
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.TEXT Suggested Features

Posted Friday, April 02, 2004 10:32 PM by jledgard
Today there are over 400 bloggers on blogs.msdn.com. Over the last two months there have been 150 MS blogs added. We're going to be over a thousand before you know it! But with the good comes the bad. Posts are going to scroll off the main feed and home Read More...
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