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Microsoft scores highest in customer-respect study

Posted Wednesday, June 30, 2004 2:43 PM by jledgard
While not really developer focused I can't help but attribute some of our high scores to the overall shift towards community engagement at Microsoft. The article does specifically mention transparency though and I'm not sure I can think of another group Read More...
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A few Extra Thoughts after three days with VS 2005 Beta 1

Posted Monday, June 28, 2004 10:48 PM by jledgard
Last week I spent three days app building. ( Day 1 , Day 2 , Day 3 ) My goal was to port the VSCmdShell project to Whidbey, finish some feature work, fix bugs, and release both a VS 2003 and VS 2005 0.8 version of the add-in. I accomplished most of what Read More...
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The Value of Developer Newsgroups

Posted Monday, June 28, 2004 9:46 PM by jledgard
Here is a great example why we encourage teams to make sure questions are being answered in their newsgroups. ( Link ) After answering a question for another user, Steve McLellan had this to say: “these newsgroups are a great resource, and one of Read More...
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Blogging to Make Billg Happy

Posted Monday, June 28, 2004 10:30 AM by jledgard
VS Core IDE QA team member, Sara Ford , was recently highlighted in a business week article entitled “ Blogging with the Boss's Blessing ”. Click here to see what billg had to say. Read More...
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Scooby Snacks Volume #2

Posted Sunday, June 27, 2004 9:12 PM by jledgard
Blogs, Blogs and More Blogs The Microsoft.com community team now has a team blog . I’ve been working a lot with Olivier Ribet and his team of late on the newsgroup/forum replacement project I’ve references. I have a lot of respect for the Read More...
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Didn’t you get the memo about the TPS reports?

Posted Saturday, June 26, 2004 12:03 AM by jledgard
Today my inbox was flooded with opinions about the VS Data team status post that was inspired by the MSBuild status post . These come to me because a large portion of my job currently revolves around figuring out and encouraging how Devdiv participates Read More...
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RE: Advocacy: Relationships and Voice: Failure of Current Strategies to Respect People

Posted Friday, June 25, 2004 2:40 PM by jledgard
I personally missed the opportunity to see Dr Weinberger live and will have to settle for our internal video recording. From the blogs it sounded like a memorable talk. [Via Network-Centric Advocacy ] I am having lots of fun playing with a talk from the Read More...
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MSBaseball Charity Update

Posted Friday, June 25, 2004 2:13 PM by jledgard
As of this moment I've collected $430 for the MSBaseball Challenge charities. I'll thank everyone who has contributed again and extend a most recent thanks to Marko, William, Brian, Joseph, and Matthew. All of whom should be getting their g-mail invites Read More...
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App Building Diary Day 3: Bug Fixing is Hard

Posted Thursday, June 24, 2004 5:41 PM by jledgard
11:15 Non-Late Arrival: I seem to get a later start each day. Today I had a 9am meeting that I arrived @ 8:59 for and then my weekly 1:1 with Mark that lasted until 11. I discovered my autocomplete window doesn’t know when VS itself loses focus Read More...
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App Building Diary Day 2: Multi-Monitor Support!

Posted Wednesday, June 23, 2004 5:00 PM by jledgard
10:44 Shut Down Outlook: I’ve been here since 9 working on “immediate attention required” e-mails. I can finally start coding again. I’m looking forward to making progress today with Phish kicking off the coding. 11:12 Suggestions Read More...
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More Gmail Invites to Give Away for Charity

Posted Wednesday, June 23, 2004 10:43 AM by jledgard
Thanks to a bunch of Gmail invite donations I'm going to open up my offer again. Donate at least $10 and I'll make sure you get an invite. I'm up to $271 collected so far for the MSbaseball Challenge charities . Sal, Marko, and David were the most recent Read More...
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VS 2005 App Building Diary Day 1: Whidbey Versus the VSCmdShell

Posted Tuesday, June 22, 2004 5:33 PM by jledgard
Today kicks off the first of three “PM App Building” days on the VSCore team. As a tester I remember laughing at the concept since it was apparent there were PM ’s that clearly hadn’t actually used the product they helped design Read More...
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Gmail is a charity goldmine... Still one invite left

Posted Monday, June 21, 2004 10:54 PM by jledgard
This morning I threw Jeremy's gmail invites up for grabs to the first 5 people to donate $10 or more to the MSBaseball Challenge fund I'm collecting. So far Chris, Marko, Troy, and Ryan have qualified and helped raise $85 for the charities. You guys ROCK! Read More...
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Want Gmail? Five accounts for support of MSBaseball Challenge charities

Posted Monday, June 21, 2004 1:02 PM by jledgard
I have Gmail invites to give out to the next five people who donate $10 or more to the MSBaseball Challenge charities through me. Jeremy , in addition to his own monetary donation and suggestion to post to the Channel9 forums, has donated these to the Read More...
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MSBuild Team Posts Status Publicly

Posted Thursday, June 17, 2004 1:40 PM by jledgard
Kudos for Alex Kipman and the MSBuild team for starting to publish the project status publicly. From the comments on their first post: I love this kind of transparency. Keep it up! I wish every PM did this. I just couldn't help thinking if you're gonna Read More...
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Scooby Snacks Volume #1

Posted Tuesday, June 15, 2004 10:01 AM by jledgard
Alex is experimenting with posting the MSBuild weekly project status directly to his blog rather than just sending it around internally. I’ve wanted to do this, but he beat me to it. In truth, I haven’t been sending a status mail internally Read More...
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Baking Scooby Snacks

Posted Tuesday, June 15, 2004 9:25 AM by jledgard
Some people have noticed that over time my blogging style has changed. Stephane says “Take a break, you are scobleizing yourself. I don't want the guy who once posted great inspiring posts to become another low budget spitter. ;-)” My own Read More...
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Strange Googlings: The Madlib

Posted Saturday, June 12, 2004 4:19 PM by jledgard
(Google searches that led to my blog in bold) Ahhhh, the same Red Sox that lost to the yankees in game 7 (thanks for the reminder) are losing big today to the Dodgers. What better time to look through my referral logs from the last few weeks for more Read More...
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"The kind of thing Microsoft needs to do more of"

Posted Friday, June 11, 2004 9:27 AM by jledgard
I got to hear the whole story from the link below on the car ride home yesterday and it sounded really cool. I wonder how many other projects like this one are going on here that no one ever hears about. http://blogs.msdn.com/JobsBlog/archive/2004/06/10/153280.aspx Read More...
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How can Model Testing help test low level functions?

Posted Thursday, June 10, 2004 1:58 PM by jledgard
It has taken me way to long to respond to this comment from Scott . re: For Testers: Nihit Kaul Talks Up Model Based Testing It appears that model based testing forces you to define the various actions your application can take (add, edit, delete, rename, Read More...
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MSBaseball Challenge Charity Fund-raising Updates

Posted Thursday, June 10, 2004 12:09 PM by jledgard
Zoe and Leah from recruiting have donated. Today I also received my first donation via paypal from Shaunt! From these three I'm very grateful to be @ $110 dollar collected for Ronald Mcdonald House and the Baseball Challenge. Thank you! So far recruiting Read More...
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This and That

Posted Wednesday, June 09, 2004 4:37 PM by jledgard
My wife and I seem to have both come down with some sort of virus so I'm officially going to call today a sick day. I haven't read anything yet that said we've lost that benifit. :-) So, its a good time to catch up and blog some things I wanted to comment Read More...
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Lawyers blog too... And they read my blog...

Posted Wednesday, June 09, 2004 12:53 PM by jledgard
Well, at least the posts that are scobelized . :-) I was hoping that some 3rd party lawyers might actually chime in once I posted my opinions . As far as I know Kevin @ techlawadvisor.com is the first. Check out this post . He also suggests adding some Read More...
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Why don't you colorize this like that

Posted Wednesday, June 09, 2004 10:26 AM by jledgard
I was forwarded this feedback today. The introduction it came with says it all. Keep the wins coming. I was on IM with an MVP today, and he mentioned he was on the VS 2005 Real World Users Usability Study. I thought you would like his comment, I think Read More...
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What about support for Developer Products?

Posted Tuesday, June 08, 2004 1:54 PM by jledgard
Dennis Cheung posted a brief look at reality versus perception of Microsoft Support services around Mac Office. Some customers have pointed out the quality of support seems to depend on the specific product and region. Have you used MS support for developer Read More...
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New Community Tools Highlighted @ Microsoft Watch

Posted Monday, June 07, 2004 1:55 PM by jledgard
Check out this article on Microsoft-Watch.com for some tidbits about the new community tools being released shortly on Microsoft sites. http://www.microsoft-watch.com/article2/0,1995,1607371,00.asp What more could Microsoft ask for? It has market share, Read More...
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Collaborative Music Play List Site?

Posted Monday, June 07, 2004 12:31 PM by jledgard
Here is one take on collaborative music play lists. Personally, I’d love to be able to share and download play lists from a site that attempted to map the play lists to the music I own. I’m sure there are people out there with similar taste Read More...
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RE: Refactoring in Whidbey for VB.NET

Posted Friday, June 04, 2004 11:45 PM by jledgard
Ouch. Now, I've spent a bunch of time in VB.NET. (Most of our VS test automation is written with it.) But this was too funny not to pass along. If you can't laugh at yourself, who can you laugh at? [Via { public virtual blog; } ] Via secretGeek According Read More...
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More Feedback about Disclaimers

Posted Friday, June 04, 2004 11:40 PM by jledgard
To make one thing clear. I do not believe that a disclaimer should be included with every post or comment, but I do think there are some things that could still be done with the blogs.msdn.com site (and recommendations for non blogs.msdn MS people) that Read More...
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And the Kipmanisms are now public

Posted Friday, June 04, 2004 10:20 PM by jledgard
Alex Kipman has a blog now! Knowing Alex, I've filed this post under the "community wins" category because I know you guys should enjoy his musings. He is an incredibly bright guy who is great to work with and has been the brains behind MSBuild. Good Read More...
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RE: Visual Studio 2005 - Some Feedback

Posted Friday, June 04, 2004 9:49 AM by jledgard
Omer posted some great constructive feedback on VS 2005 today. And yes, we do listen and we do want to hear it. :-) I couldn't choose any snippets. Most of the feedback is right on an deserves a read. Enjoy. [Via Omer van Kloeten (Click for full post) Read More...
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Room for Improvement in Microsoft Responses

Posted Thursday, June 03, 2004 10:13 AM by jledgard
I'll admit, there is a tendency for people to get a little defensive about something they have worked on for a while and are so close to. I've seen it myself internally as well. I'd like to think its one of the growing pains that must be pushed through Read More...
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House Rules for Blog Comments???

Posted Wednesday, June 02, 2004 8:47 PM by jledgard
Today Simon talked about some of the tradeoffs of requiring authentication for comments VS allowing anonymous comments in ones blog. He goes with the latter, but with some house rules worth considering. [Via WebMink (Click for Full Post) ] ....I'm transparent Read More...
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RE: I'm not gonna disclose every post

Posted Wednesday, June 02, 2004 10:05 AM by jledgard
I'd comment on your blog Robert, but you don't support the comment API so it's against my personal rules. Anyway, Scoble had this to say about my post last night. When would I not listen to my bosses? If they told me to put a disclaimer on every post Read More...
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Blogs, Alpha Builds, Customer Community, and Legal Issues

Posted Tuesday, June 01, 2004 10:01 PM by jledgard
Tomorrow I meet with a couple members of the MS Legal team to talk about the various issues that surround our current and future planned community endeavors. Here is a brain dump of my current thoughts that I look forward to looking at after I'm re-educated Read More...
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Observation of Community Spirit at TechEd 2004

Posted Tuesday, June 01, 2004 2:24 PM by jledgard
Someone forwarded me this entry from Chris Pels. I wasn't at Tech-Ed, but these types of comments are starting to become a theme. I took some snippets from his post. Please click to his entry to read the whole thing. [Via Chris Pels Blog ] Over all the Read More...
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Great Tech-Ed Attendee Quotes from Internal Trip Report

Posted Tuesday, June 01, 2004 2:14 PM by jledgard
This morning James sent around his Tech-Ed “trip report”. I particularly enjoyed this statement that I asked for permission to re-print publicly. Someday, maybe James will have a blog he can post the full report to. :-) Customers are enjoying Read More...
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Support Needed for 2004 MS Baseball Challenge and Ronald McDonald House

Posted Tuesday, June 01, 2004 11:32 AM by jledgard
I'm collecting donations for the 2004 MS Baseball Challenge that I'll also be playing in. As someone with a love for baseball and an inability to ice skate (especially around large people with sticks), I've always been jealous of Brian event and will Read More...
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For Testers: Nihit Kaul Talks Up Model Based Testing

Posted Tuesday, June 01, 2004 10:00 AM by jledgard
It was my belief as a test lead and is still my belief. To test a product with any amount of interesting complexity you need to find good ways to reduce a reliance on manual processes. If you test manually you need automation. If you are writing a test Read More...
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