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VS 2008 Beta 2 Express Editions

Posted Friday, July 27, 2007 3:50 PM by johnmont
Available now along with the Coding4Fun Developer Kit . We've upgraded the Popfly team to using VSTS 2008 beta 2 as well. Technorati Tags: Visual Studio , Express Read More...
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Preparing for the Popfly Town Hall

Posted Thursday, July 26, 2007 10:31 PM by johnmont
I've been preparing for the Popfly Town Hall meeting tomorrow and realized that we're going to be making some interesting announcements about Popfly . I'm not sure they're "news" in the sense that, say, Darryl Taft or Mary Jo Foley follows news, but to Read More...
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FAM, SteveB, and Popfly

Posted Thursday, July 26, 2007 10:10 PM by johnmont
According to one of the Popfly team members ( Sriram ), SteveB mentioned Popfly a few times during his financial analyst meeting presentation: “…Whether it's three guys in an office creating Popfly or a thousand people building the next version of Windows, Read More...
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Popfly Town Hall

Posted Monday, July 23, 2007 5:36 PM by johnmont
One of the things that Dan Fernandez has encouraged the Popfly team to do is what he calls a virtual town hall meeting -- basically a Live Meeting event where anyone can join in, see what we're up to, and ask questions. Well this Friday we're having another Read More...
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Stephen Shankland's Blog

Posted Monday, July 23, 2007 4:09 PM by johnmont
My friend Stephen Shankland now has his own blog over at CNET covering open source software, digital photography, and science. Kind of an odd group of stuff, but all things he's both knowledgeable and passionate about. Technorati Tags: CNet , Stephen Read More...
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Latest Popfly Deployment

Posted Thursday, July 19, 2007 7:42 PM by johnmont
We've pushed our latest Popfly build to our production servers. This release includes a host of new features , but what I like most about it is that I can finally start to see what it's going to look like. And also with this release we deepened our integration Read More...
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Office Hijinks

Posted Wednesday, July 11, 2007 9:16 AM by johnmont
You go away for a week and you get pwned. Office Hijinks Technorati Tags: office hijinks Read More...
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Jury Duty in Kent

Posted Monday, July 09, 2007 12:03 PM by johnmont
Like voting, jury duty is one of those low-effort ways of doing the right thing. For the second time in three years I've been called to jury duty. And for the second time in three years I've been summoned to Kent, about 30 miles from where I live in Seattle. Read More...
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Spar Varnish...

Posted Saturday, July 07, 2007 10:10 AM by johnmont
...is like painting with mucus. On the recommendation of a professional painter, my wife and I spent two days this week applying spar varnish to the ceiling of our front porch and the soffit around it. While the end result looks lovely, the actual overhead Read More...
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Coding Best Practice

Posted Friday, July 06, 2007 9:32 AM by johnmont
Courtesy Smalltalk Tidbits : Technorati Tags: humor , coding Read More...
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What "Vacation" Means During a Remodel

Posted Wednesday, July 04, 2007 10:38 AM by johnmont
I took this week off from work. Or I should say, I took this week off from going to the office. So far, in addition to doing quite a bit of email (that's the right verb, isn't it -- one "does" email?) and attending one teleconference (during which I invoked Read More...
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