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Office Prank Video: Developer + Igloo = Productivity

Posted Friday, September 22, 2006 2:19 PM by jledgard
In the middle of August Bertan took a 4 week vacation to get married. Well, as is a grand Microsoft tradition, we had to do something to his office. It took us two weeks to come up with the idea. In the end we went on a hunch and decide to build an igloo. Read More...
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The Value of Making Yourself Available to the Community

Posted Tuesday, March 29, 2005 12:05 PM by jledgard
One goal that my team is looking at pushing within the Developer Division is that every PUM (Large team leader) make themselves available to their customer communities through having a blog. In addition to the feeling that blogging is really the industry 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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Happy Birthday "Shout out" to Sara at CSUN

Posted Thursday, March 18, 2004 12:56 PM by jledgard
Sara has been missing out on our full test pass to participate in the CSUN conference down in LA and hang out with famous people. She has allready posted some good content on the conference and should be posting some more soon. Stop by her blogspace and Read More...
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Rebuilding Customer Connections One Person at a Time

Posted Tuesday, March 16, 2004 9:54 PM by jledgard
Having recently joined a team focused on Developer Division community participation and product integration I thought it would be a good exercise for me to look at recent history and in-roads made in this space over the last four years since I joined. Read More...
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Joining the Dark Side of Program Management

Posted Friday, March 12, 2004 11:10 PM by jledgard
I’ve “joined the Dark Side”, as my more technical friends would say, and decided to become a Program Manager . After spending four years as an SDET and then SDET Lead working on Visual Studio IDE features, I’ve decided it was time Read More...
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I can’t leave some things alone

Posted Wednesday, February 25, 2004 11:01 PM by jledgard
Visualizers in Whidbey are going to be cool, but you can do some awesome debug customizations in VS.NET 2003 today with the VSTweak powertoy. Check out this thread for more info. I agree with Darcy, there is no Software Crisis , unless you are a person Read More...
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Vacation Time

Posted Friday, January 23, 2004 9:46 PM by jledgard
Vacation starts tomorrow for me so I'll most likely be going dark the week. I guess this is sort of a blog OOF. When I return I begin my two week “whirlwind tour” to talk separately to the heads of all 16 groups that make up Visual Studio. Read More...
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It’s a Problem of Transparency

Posted Wednesday, January 14, 2004 11:55 PM by jledgard
For being here only a bit more than three years I’ve had the opportunity to wear several different hats at work. Though officially always in the QA org I’ve had a good number of opportunities to do development (aside from developing QA tools), Read More...
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Writers Block and PDC

Posted Tuesday, October 28, 2003 1:34 AM by jledgard
No, I haven’t gone dark because I flew down to PDC.   I’d probably have more to talk about if I did.   In truth, I’ve come across some writers block while trying to put my latest thoughts to digital paper.   That, and the GDN site Read More...
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A Copy File Macro turned Add-In and other random thoughts

Posted Thursday, October 23, 2003 2:07 AM by jledgard
A Copy File Macro turned Add-In and other random thoughts Read More...
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"Wha-What would you say you do here? "

Posted Thursday, October 16, 2003 1:13 AM by jledgard
Wha-What would you say you do here? Read More...
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Caught up for now

Posted Friday, September 26, 2003 6:47 PM by jledgard
Caught up for now Read More...
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