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Monday, August 25, 2008 9:20 AM

What is a "brown-bag talk"?

In past posts, and the recent Unit testing SharePoint post, I have mentioned "brown-bag talks." This has spurred emails from non-native English speakers asking me what in the heck a brown-bag talk is... I am not sure if this is a Microsoft term, or a
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Monday, April 28, 2008 2:27 PM

We really do listen to community feedback

The other day, we shipped the Smart Client Software Factory April 2008 Release . Before we shipped, I asked the team to audit all the open work items in the queue on the SCSF community site's Issue Tracker and determine what we had fixed. We had used
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Saturday, March 22, 2008 10:48 AM

"I need a new co-worker", or "p&p is Hiring"

Peter Provost left p&p a month or two ago*, and Ade Miller is now our Dev Lead. However, this leaves a gap in the dev team here at p&p, and leaves us with more work than people. If you are a strong developer and love doing agile development, apply
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Sunday, November 11, 2007 5:50 PM

Front Page of the Seattle Times!

This morning, I was sitting in a local coffee shop, drinking a latte, and I checked my email on my phone since I was expecting a response from someone. In my inbox was an email from Keith Pleas (the organizer of the p&p Summit) that the Seattle Times
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Wednesday, September 26, 2007 10:13 AM

Ade Miller has a new Blog

One of my fellow developers here at patterns & practices has moved his blog to a new location: http://www.ademiller.com/blogs/tech/ Ade has surprising bits of wisdom, having joined patterns & practices almost a year ago, after leaving Visual Studio
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Friday, June 01, 2007 10:38 AM

CNN Series on the Future of the Office

A few weeks ago, a film crew from CNN International visited Microsoft to do a segment on how Microsoft is looking at the workplace of the future ( Alan talked about it at the time ). They talked to the Workplace Advantage group, the team that helped patterns
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Saturday, March 10, 2007 1:21 PM

Blog Spam is taking a toll

When I started this blog, I ensured that folks could post comments in response to my thoughts and ideas. However, I did set it up so that any un-authenticated user's comments needed to be screened before they became visible. In recent weeks, I have become
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Friday, March 02, 2007 2:05 PM

Send Instant Messages and Send Money to Charity

I'm usually not one for talking about socail issues and charity, even though I do take advantage of Microsoft's donation matching program, but this was too good of an idea not to talk about. There is a program that recently launched: i'm Making a Difference
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Wednesday, October 11, 2006 2:36 PM

It has been a busy few weeks

It has been a crazy couple of weeks. I've been heads down, trying to get work done on the Web Client Software Factory . I've been busy with some stuff around the house: new appliances leading to the need to move a gas line and a water line in the kitchen.
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Wednesday, July 26, 2006 6:01 PM

Follow-up on the new space

A while back, I posted about the space the patterns & practices team built in collaboration with the Workplace Advantage folks ( here and here ). Today, two articles by others were brought to my attention, and I'd like to talk about them. First, Adam
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Tuesday, July 25, 2006 7:55 PM

Neat Site: On10.Net

Check out http://www.on10.net . They have been in beta for months and recently went live with version 1.0 .
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Thursday, June 15, 2006 4:20 PM

Yipes. Things are crazy.

Wow. Things have been crazy recently (and they still are). Between ramping up on how things work in p&p, giving talks to other groups on Agile, working with product teams to see how their new products impact the guidance offered by p&p, and helping
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Thursday, June 15, 2006 1:52 PM

Bill Gates to shift priorities.

MSNBC has an article on a fairly big leadership change at Microsoft . I'm sure that this will cause a few ripples across the company and the industry. And I'm glad that Bill will be doing more with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. [Edit: Here
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Wednesday, May 10, 2006 9:06 AM

p&p Team Space Update

While we are still not moved in to the new space, a few folks are using their laptops to camp and it try out. I acquired a few candid pictures (thanks Steve Elston) to show off the new area. The above picture shows one of the largest workrooms in the
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Tuesday, May 09, 2006 3:52 PM

Halo3 Trailer

News from E3: XBox.com has the Halo3 Trailer available to watch. One word: "Yipes" (No, that is not my first word choice, just the edited for TV version) I loved Halo, I enjoyed Halo2 (even though the game and storyline seemed too short). I'm looking
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