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Friday, November 10, 2006 12:16 PM

Living complexity

Brad's Carl Sagan-style post on code size stirs up some familiar questions about complexity management here at MacBU. With every release of Office, we remove, rewrite and add new code. Often we can remove significant amounts of code without losing functionality
Posted by Geoff Price | 14 Comments
Friday, November 03, 2006 12:09 AM

It's all in the numbers ...

A friend of mine and I were shooting the ... breeze (freaking ‘G' ratings for blogs) and he was asking me when the next version of Office was coming out. Now being the wise Microsoft spin doctor that I am, and having spent numerous hours being brainwashed
Posted by ExCntx | 52 Comments
Friday, October 06, 2006 8:52 AM

Incremental mojo

Hello, another introduction for you – my name is Geoff Price, and I’m the Product Unit Manager for MacBU in Redmond. This is MS speak for saying I have responsibility for the core engineering teams here (development, testing, program management and user
Posted by Geoff Price | 13 Comments
Saturday, September 30, 2006 1:14 AM

On the power of a small team -or- Why MacBU testing rocks

Geez, now I have to follow up David's awesomely funny entry about the food alias with my dry post on testing. One of the first classes I took after starting here was called “Testing at Microsoft for New SDETs.” This class was full of about 25 people who
Posted by joeleblanc | 1 Comments
Monday, August 28, 2006 10:00 PM

80,000 lines of assembly code, Cold Fusion, a Russian winter and one bad TLB entry ....

What do these things have in common? They are just some of the few things I have lived through in my 16 years of developing software. In 1990 I graduated college and went to work at Apple Computer. I still have the "Journey Begins" T-Shirt they gave to
Posted by ExCntx | 14 Comments
 
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