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Musicians Get-Together @ MIX Open Space
Jason Mauer and I are doing an Open Space session tonight @ 6:30pm in the Open Space Theatre at MIX 08. If you are a musician who happens to be a computer geek for a living, come on by, chill out, and enjoy. Hope to see you there! Read More...

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Rory Joining Channel 9
Yay, I can finally talk about this. For those of you that haven't heard yet, the incomparable Rory Blyth , the smartest man , is joining the C9 team . Rory is going to make a GREAT addition to the C9 team and I expect to see some great stuff coming from Read More...

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Virtual Machine Monitors, Exokernels, and Hypervisors, Oh My!
For those of you that semi-regularly follow this blog, you may or may not have noticed that I've really been getting into OS Development lately. Of course, the first step is brushing up on x86 assembly language. Outside of that, it's a lot of Research, Read More...

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Feedback Wanted - Favorite Development Features in Vista/Longhorn Server
Howdy all y'all. I'm hoping to get some feedback from all of you. Basically, I'm hoping to get a "reader's braindump" on what development features you are looking forward to most in Vista/Longhorn Server. So, what development features are you looking Read More...

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Writing Your Own OS With Visual Studio 2005
Before I joined the ranks at Microsoft, a hobby I started to take up was Operating System development. Technically, I didn't get very far yet (I had just started). My "kernel" (if you can even call it that) basically just printed "Hello World" to the Read More...

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Installing Ubuntu Under Virtual PC 2004
After my post the other day linking out to a post about authoring file systems on Linux with Mono, I decided that I wanted to try it out myself. So, I went and grabbed the latest Ubuntu, and sojourned out to install it under Virtual PC 2004. I remember Read More...

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Authoring File Systems with Mono on Linux
I know, this post isn't exactly Windows-related, but I thought it was cool nonetheless... Miguel de Icaza recently posted on his blog on the topic of authoring file systems with Mono on Linux . Since I've been digging into File System "stuff" at work Read More...

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PowerPoint As A Teaching Tool - It's Broken
Yup, I said it. PowerPoint as a teaching tool? It's broken. It's broken badly. And unfortunately, there is a good number of people out there who either don't realize it, or don't care. First of all, thanks Seth Godin . Seth gave a presentation at GEL Read More...

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XNA Game Studio Express and writing your own games for the 360
I know Dave , Tom , and Boyd had stated that they were pleasantly surprised that the announcements coming out at GameFest tomorrow hadn't been leaked. Well, close but no cigar (if this is indeed the announcement they were talking about). Of course, considering Read More...

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A Day In The Life Of A New MS Technical Evangelist
I figured I would use this blog not only to talk about some of the cool technologies I'm currently working with, but to also increase the transparency into what the role of Technical Evangelist is actually like here at Microsoft. Keep in mind, of course, Read More...

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The one where dogfooding almost ruined my weekend
[The usual disclaimer about my opinions not reflecting the opinions of my employer apply here] At times, this was a very frustrating weekend. The biggest contributor to that frustration was a set of directions I got. You see, I was traveling from the Read More...

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