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July 2006 - Posts

Throw Away Your 5 Year Plans

Posted Monday, July 31, 2006 1:14 PM by jledgard
I don't want any part of them. They result in over-engineering, wasted documentation, never-ending discussion as everyone takes the opportunity to put their chef hat on, employees that get stuck going down a path while the world changes around them, and Read More...
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Next Prototype Tool: Resource Refactoring

Posted Friday, July 28, 2006 11:28 AM by jledgard
Bertan recently blogged about his next project. Feel free to leave him feedback. I saw the demo and it's a slick feature. Unfortunately not much dev work is going to get done in the meantime... he's out for four weeks on vacation to get married and enjoy Read More...
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Know & love your big picture

Posted Wednesday, July 26, 2006 3:00 PM by jledgard
This is a question that just about every PM at Microsoft has to answer frequently. "What's your big picture?" or "How does this fit into the big picture?" Our culture is one of visualization and we love our grand views. (Hidden pun most certainly intended... Read More...
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Aaron's UI Design Blog: Ux and UI Design Book Recommendations

Posted Monday, July 17, 2006 9:26 AM by jledgard
Aaron owns driving user experience consistency in Visual Studio. I recently asked him for some book recommendations for the members of the Developer Solutions team. He replied in the best way possible... timely and publicly on his blog... I've spent a Read More...
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Solutions Developer Bertan Blogs

Posted Thursday, July 13, 2006 4:38 PM by jledgard
I don't think I'd yet linked to another member of our team that now has a blog. Bertan is blogging as well. ( http://blogs.msdn.com/bertan/) He's a developer working on the Power Toys. Currently he's working on an update to the VSCmdShell project & Read More...
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Jeremy Kelley Joins the Developer Solutions team

Posted Thursday, July 13, 2006 4:23 PM by jledgard
So, technically, he joined a while ago, but he didn't have an active work related blog I could point to until Monday of this past week. Jeremy is going to do some PMing and some development work on IDE and developer platform related Power Toys that we'll Read More...
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An answer I can believe in to the brownie debate

Posted Wednesday, July 12, 2006 4:19 PM by jledgard
Let's just count the calories. A Betty Crocker brownie-mix box has two sets of nutrition facts on it--stats for just the powder inside of the box, and for the brownies after they are baked. That's all we need! It turns out that a box of brownies, after Read More...
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I was waiting for this... Mac ad paradies

Posted Tuesday, July 11, 2006 3:34 PM by jledgard
…pointing out those new Apple ads. So, you can be sure I’ll show him this spoof of those ads this morning. Contains some adult language. Nothing a 12-year-old hasn’t heard on a playground somewhere, though. Scobleizer - Tech Geek Blogger Read More...
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My only good ice-breaker

Posted Tuesday, July 11, 2006 10:25 AM by jledgard
The question was posed at JobSyntax . As a previous interview candidate, have you heard any creative ice-breakers? As an interviewer, what’s your favorite one-liner? I usually like to ask people what the most interesting, difficult, or fun question Read More...
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Positive Codeplex coverage with Power Toy Mentions

Posted Friday, July 07, 2006 9:39 PM by jledgard
So www.codeplex.com has officially launched… if you’ve seen any of the Developer Solutions team bloggers you know that we’ve been doing business there for the last month or so, but I guess we officially sent out releases to the mainstream tech media. Read More...
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ASP.NET Best Practice Tool Alpha Released

Posted Thursday, July 06, 2006 8:59 PM by jledgard
Last week our team published a binary Alpha of an upcoming Power Toy for Visual Studio. Try it out and let us know what you think. Via Joe Announcing the Best Practice Analyzer for ASP.Net! It’s currently just an alpha preview version—a shell of the application Read More...
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I’m always the last to know… Jobgals do podcast

Posted Wednesday, July 05, 2006 11:51 PM by jledgard
I’m always the last to know… Jobgals do podcast On the "Recruiters Lounge" you’ll find an interview with Gretchen & Zoe about their start in blogging and their current project… www.jobsyntax.com . Maybe she just didn’t Read More...
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Ed Helms and Soma on Microsoft College Recruiting

Posted Wednesday, July 05, 2006 2:31 PM by jledgard
This is something that should have leaked a long time ago… http://www.microsoft.com/College/default.mspx Breaking Video News! Don't miss Ed Helms' on-scene report to get an inside, non-biased view of life at Microsoft. Also be sure to check out the stories Read More...
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Is it wrong to laugh?

Posted Sunday, July 02, 2006 11:50 PM by jledgard
http://bigpicture.typepad.com/comments/film/index.html Read More...
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