July 2006 - Posts

ProfileApproval: Automated Propriety Policing for Online Dating Sites
"Charlene" is a 26 year old "goofy goddess" with a terrific body and 2 Siamese kittens. Her user profile is well-formed, complete, and as far as her favorite dating site, CaliDate.com* is concerned, completely legitimate. However, Charlene's profile is Read More...
Posted 27 July 06 06:53 by KorbyP | 2 Comments   
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Who Stole Rob Caron?
Like tens of thousands of other people, I am an avid and daily reader of my good friend Rob Caron's VSTS blog . He is way plugged in, clearly. But Rob is more than that. He is a bloguoso. Lately however, Rob hasn't seemed himself. As possibly occurred Read More...
Posted 26 July 06 02:33 by KorbyP | 4 Comments   
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Visual Studio Team Foundation Server via Eclipse? Runs on UNIX, Mac, or Linux?
Are you excited about the potential benefits of migrating from your existing source control and bug tracking tools to Visual Studio Team System? Stymied by bureaucracy and organizational inertia? Common Scenario: different groups in your organization Read More...
Posted 26 July 06 01:20 by KorbyP | 0 Comments   
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Capitalizing on Email Exhaustion
In my last post , I lamented email overload and its effects upon me and presumably, many of my co-workers and friends. Did I mention that I LOVE Microsoft? I am a diehard Microsoft customer, fan, employee, and shareholder. I do not read Mini-Microsoft Read More...
Posted 25 July 06 03:54 by KorbyP | 1 Comments   
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2006 Microsoft Company Picnic, Honey did you pack the confirmation email?
Fellow Microsoft Employees (and anyone else who shares my love of the Dilbertesque absurditities of corporate life): If you’re planning to go to the MSPicnic this weekend, PRINT YOUR PICNIC CONFIRMATION EMAIL NOW! The MSPicnic Miscalculation The 2006 Read More...
Posted 21 July 06 04:29 by KorbyP | 2 Comments   
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Flickr .NET Mashups
From the dean, Alex Barnett ( RSS ): "MSDN's Coding4Fun has a good intro article on playing with the Flickr API using Flickr.Net API library : "the actual mechanics of communicating with Flickr are relatively simple. The hard part is coming up with the Read More...
Posted 21 July 06 09:00 by KorbyP | 0 Comments   
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Creating Self-governing Online Communities
In general, I disdain the casual manner in which many people throw around the word "community". As a member of the Microsoft.com Communities and Collaborative Development team, the subtly overloaded nature of the word "community" is particularly troubling. Read More...
Posted 20 July 06 11:43 by KorbyP | 3 Comments   
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Jumping Ship to the MS Serendipity
Over the past few weeks, it has become increasingly apparent that CodePlex is pointed in the right direction, proceeding under its own [community-driven] power, and certain to achieve its destination, with or without a full time product manager: me. Cap'n Read More...
Posted 17 July 06 06:18 by KorbyP | 2 Comments   
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Cmd Shell for Visual Studio: Released on CodePlex
This project is an awesome addition to the growing list of shared source software on CodePlex.com. " VSCmdShell provides users with a shell window inside the Visual Studio IDE that can be used for Visual Studio commands as well. Current version allows Read More...
Posted 17 July 06 01:52 by KorbyP | 5 Comments   
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Qunu: an Open Source Approach to Realtime Q&A
Enabling people to convene and interact online in the same rich ways they can offline is the holy grail of social computing. Imagine being able to ask a question, on any subject and at any time, and getting an expert response in near realtime, via your Read More...
Posted 17 July 06 11:59 by KorbyP | 3 Comments   
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CodePlex Videos on Port 25
Interested in CodePlex? Subscribe to the CodePlex tag on Port 25 . As of the date of this post there are two interviews ( Sara Ford's and mine with timeline thanks to Sara) along with a blog post by Bryan Kirchner in which he discusses "two of the most Read More...
Posted 14 July 06 12:39 by KorbyP | 3 Comments   
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Social Engineering in Open Source Projects
A prospective CodePlex project coordinator recently asked me an intriguing question, "Have you seen any good qualitative data or studies on weight of factors for building successful open source applications?" By way of example, he enumerated a variety Read More...
Posted 10 July 06 04:14 by KorbyP | 1 Comments   
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