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June 2006 - Posts

A "Universe" of Power Toys… Sara’s Video Interview on Port 25

Posted Friday, June 30, 2006 9:30 AM by jledgard
http://port25.technet.com/archive/2006/06/29/2666.aspx Sara was recently interviewed on the http://port25.technet.com/ site. There’s soo much good stuff in this interview. They go beyond a basic discussion about the specific tools we’ve released. Read More...
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Google Silently Adds Job Search, No Mention of Developer Solution Jobs

Posted Friday, June 16, 2006 4:59 AM by jledgard
Or at least I had never noticed before. Via JobSyntax . Intel jobs . Microsoft jobs , Google jobs . Some company names don't work though. The search engine didn't pop up for a few of my choices: Dell jobs , Electronic Arts jobs , Facebook jobs , Apple Read More...
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What is open source? How about Open Source?

Posted Thursday, June 15, 2006 4:10 PM by jledgard
I saw this today on Slashdot. I’ll admit that there always seems to be some contention here at Microsoft. Even on our team, where we do release source code and allow others to participate in the development on www.codeplex.com , seems to go back and forth. Read More...
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Anyone but you again

Posted Thursday, June 15, 2006 10:00 AM by jledgard
In this new age of corporate transparency and customer connection at Microsoft there is a thought that crosses the minds of everyone at least once or twice a year. If it doesn’t cross your mind at all over the course of a year then I’d probably tell you Read More...
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Not your typical reality show contestants

Posted Friday, June 09, 2006 11:00 AM by jledgard
I was checking out http://www.madeinexpress.com/ and there are some cool ideas there. What I noticed is that there seem to be some differences between this “final 12” and the final 12 you might see on… say… American idol. These guys are probably cooler. Read More...
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Developer Solutions Team FY07 Success Factors Draft

Posted Wednesday, June 07, 2006 9:50 AM by jledgard
I’ve recently been tasked with collecting what you might refer to as organizational goals for our little Developer Solutions team. I think of them as… if we did these 5-10 big things over the next year our team could be considered successful. This is Read More...
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Improving the fidelity of the Mark as Answer button

Posted Thursday, June 01, 2006 10:46 AM by jledgard
Joe beat me to the punch by blogging about the brain fart I had yesterday about adding some fidelity to the answer flag on forums to boost post rankings. We > Me: Joe Morel's Blog : Finding the Good Stuff on the Forums . The idea that Josh proposed Read More...
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