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Agile at Microsoft

I wasn’t always a proponent of Agile development practices. To tell you the truth, I didn’t even know what they were. Before I came to Microsoft I used to just do what I was told and simply worked the way everyone else worked. Read More...
Posted Monday, June 04, 2007 8:01 AM by mattwar | 8 Comments
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Wayward's Deep Dark Secret

Normally, I'd have titled a post like this as a way to catch wandering eyes and then I'd spew out some silly little tirade about some sinister secret, and it would drag on and on never quite divulging anything and finally ending with either a punch-line Read More...
Posted Tuesday, June 15, 2004 2:09 PM by mattwar | 5 Comments
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The new dark age

Sometimes scientists and researchers surprise us with new findings. Results from studies often debunk long held beliefs and many times even overturn supposedly proven facts from past scientific works. We take it all in stride, because we all know that's Read More...
Posted Monday, April 19, 2004 8:01 PM by mattwar | 3 Comments
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The long haul

Whew. For a minute there I thought I was completely out of posts. I had been stretching it a bit thin lately, scrapping the bottom of the barrel, sort of like squeezing out that last bit of toothpaste when you’ve been out for weeks and have been Read More...
Posted Friday, April 16, 2004 12:36 PM by mattwar | 1 Comments
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Turbo Charged

At lunch last week a few of us were reminiscing about early language environments, compilers and what not. Anders was there telling us stories about his early days. I thought I would come clean for a change. I let everyone in on my dirty little secret. Read More...
Posted Wednesday, February 25, 2004 11:02 PM by mattwar | 5 Comments
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Lost in Limbo

I stopped by the post office this morning to mail out a small package. It was a few small collectible items that were being sent out as part of a trade with another person I had only met over the internet. There was no line to wait in, so that was lucky, Read More...
Posted Wednesday, February 04, 2004 11:09 AM by mattwar | 11 Comments
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Terminal Atrocity

I'm sitting at home using VPN to connect into work. I'm downloading one of the later builds of whidbey and all of our source tree. It's going to take a long time. At least I'm not doing it manually, my home computer is talking to my work machine using Read More...
Posted Monday, February 02, 2004 11:09 PM by mattwar | 3 Comments
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The Couch Trip

Have you ever had one of those days where everything seemed to just go wrong? I have, but that day was not yesterday. It was one of the other kind. Not that everything went well, it just sorted of all worked out in spite of itself. AND it had nothing Read More...
Posted Monday, February 02, 2004 9:37 AM by mattwar | 2 Comments
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Dragon Stank

Dragon Storm, Saturday, SCI-FI channel: I want my two hours back. I sat through that rubish tonight. I had it recorded on TiVo. TiVo is great and all, and someday I'll write a glowing review and share all my wonderful experiences, but tonight the whole Read More...
Posted Sunday, February 01, 2004 11:29 PM by mattwar | 2 Comments
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Chaos Trees Reloaded

A reader pointed me to a bunch of reviews of Wolfram's book A New Kind of Science, that I was alluding to in my last post. Here it is in case anyone else is interested in checking out how tiny computer programs actually created the universe. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1579550088/qid=1075577679//ref=pd_ka_1/103-5704049-9739019?v=glance&s=books&n=507846 Read More...
Posted Sunday, February 01, 2004 5:35 PM by mattwar | 1 Comments
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Chaos Trees

Have you ever done a lot of work writing code over tree based structures? I've been doing that a lot lately. It's kind of a habit now. It started years ago working on the .Net XML library, and it has progressed through various language development projects. Read More...
Posted Saturday, January 31, 2004 10:11 AM by mattwar | 1 Comments
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Drug induced dreams

So Bill's updated his character sheet. I'm not quite sure, does Knighthood count as an epic level paladin or a prestige class? I was thinking about this last night while I sat playing a game at a friends house. It's my once a week get-away from the family. Read More...
Posted Wednesday, January 28, 2004 10:28 AM by mattwar | 3 Comments
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The parallel you

This is my first post. This is my first weblog. It is not much of a weblog yet. You probably are not even reading this. Heck, I may not even be writing this. It's early at Microsoft. All I have to drink is a can of bubbly water. Lets hope some seeps into Read More...
Posted Tuesday, January 27, 2004 10:45 AM by mattwar | 10 Comments
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