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Job Descriptions

Posted Friday, June 30, 2006 8:03 AM by johnmont
I’ve found that writing job descriptions is harder than I thought. In particular, it’s harder because I’m writing for so many audiences: for the internal developers and PMs who might be interested, the external folks, for other managers, and so on. Here’s Read More...
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Amaze Me 2

Posted Thursday, June 29, 2006 11:32 AM by johnmont
I was riding the bus into work the other day when I realized that bus route calculations are kind of like the maze problem, only harder. Imagine that you live in a city (e.g. Seattle) and that you use buses to get everywhere and you want to be able to Read More...
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NPT Team Charter

Posted Thursday, June 29, 2006 8:31 AM by johnmont
After about four months of working through some hard problems, I’ve begun to center our team on a few core work areas. Based a lot on the feedback you gave me through this blog, I narrowed it to three work areas: We’re going to start by building on the Read More...
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Amaze Me

Posted Wednesday, June 28, 2006 9:36 AM by johnmont
This came up in the context of the development experience we’re working on. One of the objects we supply to work with is a maze – you can create a new maze, take a step in the maze, check to see if the direction you’re facing is a valid move, turn, and Read More...
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Non-Pro Tools Team PUM

Posted Wednesday, June 28, 2006 7:03 AM by johnmont
We have a PUM. Paramesh Vaidyanathan who ran the India Developer Center for Developer Division – a team of something like 100 people – has decided he wants to come back to the US to run the Non-Professional Tools Team (NPT – our team). I’m incredibly Read More...
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What We’re Doing: Cool Tools

Posted Tuesday, June 27, 2006 1:32 PM by johnmont
While I’ve been running around creating PPTs and sending email, Adam has been working on a prototype development experience that’s designed to take someone with no knowledge of code through to creating simple Web sites with HTML and Javascript or VBscript, Read More...
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Adam Nathan Joins Non-Pro Tools Team

Posted Tuesday, June 27, 2006 7:59 AM by johnmont
We have our first developer. Adam Nathan has joined us. If that name sounds familiar, it’s because he’s the soul behind Pinvoke.net , a community site dedicated to getting good coverage of .NET’s Pinvoke functionality (which he largely wrote). I knew Read More...
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We Have a Name: NPT

Posted Monday, June 26, 2006 6:36 AM by johnmont
We still need a name for the team. Since none of the ideas we came up with previously seemed to pass the internal sniff test (go figure), I decided that I’d opt for naming it descriptively: the Non-Professional Tools Team, or NPT for short. We’re still Read More...
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Wi-Fi Bye?

Posted Sunday, June 25, 2006 10:45 AM by johnmont
Conexxion by Boeing is an in-air 802.11 wireless service. As far as I know, it’s the ín-air 802.11 wireless service. I’ve used it on a couple of SAS flights from Seattle to Europe and, when it works, it’s amazing. Unfortunately, you pay your twenty-something Read More...
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