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December 2006 - Posts

How the Power Outage and a Thief Scored me a Wii

Posted Saturday, December 30, 2006 10:21 AM by jledgard
Getting some newfangled device, like a Wii, can be a challenge if you work and live in a tech-happy environment like Seattle or Redmond. In the end, losing power for 3+ days was the break I needed to get mine. On Saturday, December 17th, Gretchen and Read More...
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Nobody Reads Your Internal Site

Posted Thursday, December 28, 2006 4:10 PM by jledgard
I hate to be the one to tell you this, but it's probably true. You know that slick site you put together on the intranet? The one you spent time brainstorming about so that every bit of information conveys what you want your teams to know. The one you Read More...
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First two reviews of my Thinkweek paper

Posted Wednesday, December 27, 2006 2:32 PM by jledgard
I've received the first two reviews of my Thinkweek paper. One of them was posted to the paper site ( http://thinkweek2/Details.aspx?subId=1299 ) and the other submitted directly to me. They were both positive and I thank you both. No comments from Bill Read More...
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Kudos to MSDN for making support options clearer

Posted Wednesday, December 27, 2006 9:56 AM by jledgard
Check out: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/aa718682.aspx A little late on my part, but great work on the new MSDN support page Katie & the MSDN team! It's a great step in the right direction for helping customers navigate their support options. Read More...
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My Thinkweek: The Evolution of Customer Support

Posted Tuesday, December 19, 2006 11:44 AM by jledgard
I've been doing a lot of writing lately. All that extra keytapping, however, was going towards a Thinkweek paper that was submitted just thirty minutes prior to the deadline at 4:30pm yesterday. My paper, entitled "The Evolution of Customer Support", Read More...
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Refactor String Resources to Resx Files in Vb.Net and C#

Posted Monday, December 04, 2006 10:43 AM by jledgard
Last week our team released the 1.0 beta of a new refactoring menu option for Visual Studio 2005. Bertan, the developer, has the details on his blog . The Resource Refactoring Tool provides developers an easy way to extract hard coded strings from the Read More...
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