Share on Facebook
Welcome to MSDN Blogs Sign in | Join | Help

Browse by Tags

All Tags » Life at Microsoft   (RSS)
Friday, June 12, 2009 9:17 AM

Bytes by MSDN

Looks like there is a really cool interview series called Bytes by MSDN where interviews with community influentials were taped at TechEd, each will talk about their recommended must-have resources.  The interviews will be posted between now and
Posted by kaevans | 1 Comments
Filed under:
Thursday, April 30, 2009 12:23 PM

Should Evangelists Be Forced to Unit Test During Their Demos?

Last year, my friend DonXML issued a challenge to me: No more Console.WriteLine demos , from now on replace those demos with unit tests. Jim Holmes posted about his desire to see more focus on unit testing from the evangelists as well. Don and Jim: I’ve
Posted by kaevans | 6 Comments
Filed under:
Saturday, March 28, 2009 9:09 PM

Working with the Common Feed Store in Windows

I have been trying to find a way to write an addin or utility to make the RSS support in Outlook suck a little less .  Outlook has support for OPML import, but it flattens the hierarchy in the OMPL file.  For instance, here’s a very small sample
Posted by kaevans | 1 Comments
Monday, March 23, 2009 8:47 PM

Microsoft Marketing is on a Tear!

I’m the first to recognize that it’s easy to complain, but harder to give props.  Today, I am giving props to the folks who started taking marketing at Microsoft seriously. I have complained both often and loudly about Microsoft’s marketing. 
Posted by kaevans | 1 Comments
Wednesday, March 11, 2009 3:36 PM

Welcome Eric Hoffman

Eric Hoffman, a great guy from AOL has joined our team and is starting up a blog… watch this space… http://blogs.msdn.com/erichoffman .
Posted by kaevans | 0 Comments
Filed under:
Wednesday, March 11, 2009 12:56 PM

Verizon Wireless Goodness

Just got this email from a coworker.  Had no idea this was available, I’ll certainly leverage the Friends and Family feature, especially for the conference calling number that we use within Microsoft… that will save me some minutes per month, absolutely.
Posted by kaevans | 1 Comments
Monday, February 16, 2009 7:18 PM

The ROI of Software Made Simple

Josh Holmes has a great post about going the the mattresses to prove ROI for your application.  His post, “ Moving From Cost center to Strategic Partner ”, is well-written and is dead on the money. During my interview process at Microsoft, my interviews
Posted by kaevans | 1 Comments
Sunday, February 08, 2009 6:55 AM

Cool Mobile App: Microsoft Tag

Just found out about Microsoft Tag from Jeff Blankenburg’s blog .  Microsoft Tag is a cool technology that can link the physical world to the online world.  It runs on multiple phone platforms and only uses the camera in your cell phone. 
Posted by kaevans | 1 Comments
Filed under:
Monday, February 02, 2009 11:40 AM

More Community Love for Windows 7

Love to see the great reactions to the Windows 7 beta .  I have been running the beta for about a month as my primary machine, and it seems incredibly stable given its beta status.  I LOVE the new taskbar, the window preview is even nicer than
Posted by kaevans | 1 Comments
Filed under:
Tuesday, January 20, 2009 2:36 PM

PhotoSynth on CNN.com

Sticking with my stance of not talking politics on a technical blog , I only offer the following as a cool use of technology: CNN.com has a PhotoSynth of Obama's swearing in ceremony .
Posted by kaevans | 0 Comments
Monday, October 20, 2008 11:51 AM

Opening on Our Team - PSA

We have a really cool opening on our team at Microsoft - Platform Strategy Advisor . The PSA role is a great mix for someone with both business and technical acumen.  The mission of the PSA is to demonstrate the business value of new innovative Microsoft
Posted by kaevans | 1 Comments
Filed under:
Thursday, October 09, 2008 7:15 PM

Control PowerPoint Slide Shows with Windows Mobile

Rob Cameron on my team posted a very cool and geeky tidbit that shows how you can control PowerPoint slide shows with Windows Mobile . This just might give me a reason to start using PowerPoint in my presentations more frequently.
Posted by kaevans | 1 Comments
Sunday, October 05, 2008 5:13 PM

Vista and Zune Underrated at PCWorld

Interesting to see someone besides Microsoft employees calling out Vista and Zune as underrated. http://www.pcworld.com/article/151402/the_10_most_overrated_products.html Even more interesting to see multiple Apple products called out as overrated.
Posted by kaevans | 2 Comments
Filed under:
Friday, September 19, 2008 11:36 AM

Transitioning Customers to .NET

Every once in awhile, the obvious jumps up at me. It happened today when thinking about how to get developers and architects to adopt .NET. The answer: you don't. Wha? Simple. Don't try to convince them to use .NET. If I start a conversation with a VB6
Posted by kaevans | 2 Comments
Filed under:
Friday, August 29, 2008 12:31 PM

Free Silverlight and WPF Workshop in NYC 9/3/2008

Next week, my teammate Michael Scherotter will be holding a free half-day mini-workshop at the Microsoft office on 6th Avenue to teach people about building Silverlight and WPF applications with Expression Studio and Visual Studio. Since we work with
Posted by kaevans | 0 Comments
More Posts Next page »
 
Page view tracker