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Claimspace, a Long Tail Recognition System
Robert Rebholz is not only my boss*, he is also my muse, ideological sparring partner, alter ego, and mentor. Bob is possesed by a special kind of genius, with a sort of Jeffersonian breadth and intensity that makes it a pleasure and honor to collaborate Read More...
Tagspace, Meet Claimspace
In early June, we will launch a new social software service for technical professionals called Claimspace (codename, "Rapport"), which will join Tagspace , Blogs , and Forums as the newest member of the Microsoft.Community family . Our development lead, Read More...
Tracking Down the "Ping Meme"
At Seattle MindCamp 3.0 , this saturday, Scott Berkun and Adam Loving will host the second annual " Good Thing Rapid Discovery Slam ", a 45 minute show-n-tell for geeks. The first slam, at MindCamp 2.0 featured the reading of an Emily Dickinson poem, Read More...
Friendly URLs, CodeGallery, and Frodo
To the best of my knowledge, this is a first. I just discovered that http://blogml.com redirects to the BlogML CodeGallery project at http://www.gotdotnet.com/codegallery/codegallery.aspx?id=48e15925-d97f-48ac-81fb-e4e405762858 . ...you can see why. Before Read More...
Loyalty to Visual FoxPro: the SednaX Generation
It is my great and profound honor to welcome the FoxPro developer community to Gotdotnet's new CodeGallery in the form of the FoxPro SednaX project : the fastest growing and newest project on Gotdotnet. May you stay long, do great things, and spread the Read More...
Differences between gotdotnet CodeGallery and Workspaces
When I joined the gotdotnet team with Betsy and our illustrious leader, Sandy back in February/March, we quickly determined that improving the reliability and performance of GDN Workspaces should be our #1 goal. To that end, we initiated two projects: Read More...
gotdotnet CodeGallery has left the station
I am proud to announce the public release of CodeGallery , the newest member of the gotdotnet family. Gotdotnet.com is the community website where professional Windows and .NET developers from around the world can contribute and consume code samples, Read More...
New SourceSafe Utility: DATAWIZ
Here's a little internal Microsoft dirt: I'm the person behind the scenes who reviews and approves or rejects all gotdotnet User Samples submissions. For the record, this will not always be my job (things change) but for now, I actually look forward to Read More...
Open Choice Software
Customer-collaborative development needs a catchy name. Ideas? My proposal: Open Choice Software Read More...
Can’t Find It? Help me! Need answers? No problem.
You’ve tried every possible Boolean combination of four simple friggin’ keywords. You’ve scanned 176 Web pages. It’s CRAZY! Don’t despair! It’s not your fault. It’s my fault and I haven’t given up on you yet. Note: If you’re having a help emergency please Read More...
A Brief [and Subjective] History of Corporate Blogging at Microsoft
My teammate Betsy, the czarina of blog , will be speaking at TechEd 2005 in Amsterdam about Microsoft's corporate blogging effort, tools, and platform. Betsy has been herding Microsoft BlogCats for least as long as I've been blogging in the wild as a Read More...
Back-Backchannels in Social Software?
At the Social Computing Symposium last week, I stumbled into a discussion that I had not given much thought to and made a brazen claim based on a gut level reaction of disgust to the proposed value of "back channels" in social software. Doing so was like Read More...
Source Control, GotDotNet, VS.NET, and Dream Job #3
Tone Engel reports that, "Joined the FlexWiki GotDotNet group last night for source code access which is provided through a custom source code control provider that integrates with Visual Studio."* I am an avid FlexWiki and GotDotNet user/contributor Read More...
Dream Job #2
Over the last two or three years, my passion for designing and documenting collaborative development tools like Visual Studio, Visual Studio Team Foundation , and yes, even Visual SourceSafe has burgeoned into an irresistible interest in social software Read More...
The "Name That Blog" Contest
I want to change the subtitle of my blog and I’d like your help doing so. If you suggest the subtitle (or title) that I decide to use and you are the first person to suggest it, then I will send you a shrink wrapped copy of Microsoft Visual Studio Read More...
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