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Well, I tried using a prettier stylesheet layout for my blog, but it's not very good at should code. It doesn't use the screen real estate very well... Oh well, it was worth a shot. But, now I'm going back to a code-friendly layout.
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Apparently there's quite an upheaval over the Comic Sans typeface... with folks even wishing to ban it (there's a Ban Comic Sans movement even). Though I think they could probably use a new hobby... :) Don't know, I've always kind of liked that font...
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Had a really good week talking with a lot of customers at our VSIP clinic. Met a lot of the folks extending Visual Studio in cool interesting ways. It did remind me how much I enjoy helping folks out with our products... Sometimes that gets a little lost
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I've been busily working on Visual Studio 10 and haven't had much time for blogging. I know that's a pretty lame excuse, but it's the only one I have. Being a development lead I spend a lot of time in meetings, triaging bugs, and dealing with fires in
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The latest Windows Live service just went into Beta this morning - SkyDrive . SkyDrive is a hard drive in the cloud that lets you save personal files out on the web. Along with private folders that only you can access, it also lets you create shared folders
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There's an interesting story in eWeek about Microsoft's work on Software Modeling . A lot of discussion about the future, but DSL Tools is really the present and the tip of the spear for a lot of the work that Microsoft is doing in software modeling.
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I was walking down the hallway, heading home yesterday evening, and I see Ali jumping across the hallway from his office into another office with an open door. I'm thinking: hmm, that's a little strange. Why would he be doing that? But, apparently, his
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There have been lots of great news from the Game Developer's Conference this year. But, my favorite thus far is the announcement that C# will be supported in XNA for developing games for the XBox 360 . I think this is great and will allow small companies
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Microsoft Research has created a cool new UI plug-in for Windows Desktop Search, called Phlat , that does much better querying and filtering and seemlessly integrate search and browse functionality. If you like Desktop Search, but want a better interface
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It was a year ago today that I posted my first entry to this blog, talking about Whitehorse (the enterprise designers for VSTS 2005). Since then, there's been lots of posts and a change over to talking about DSL Tools, as my job has been more focused
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I've been patiently watching and listening to a campaign run by a local radio station ( 107.7 The End ) to get Bill Gates on their show for an interview and their music challenge (where they face-off two local celebrities to pick their best song to play
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The UConn Huskies , my alma mater, is ranked #3 in the preseason NCAA Mens' Basketball poll . It's nice to see the Huskies highly ranked again -- last year was a bit of a disappointment after their championship in 2004. The road is going to be tough though,
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Duncan MacKenzie created a tool to create an RSS 2.0 file from user entered data rather than as a feed from a blogging engine. Sometimes you have content that you want a feed for without it necessarily being in your blogging engine. Duncan created this
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It's a sad day. Our favorite chief engineer passed away today. James Doohan (Star Trek's Scotty) died early this morning . Doohan died at 5:30 a.m. (1330 GMT) at his Redmond, Washington, home with his wife of 28 years, Wende, at his side, Los Angeles
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It's a Microsoft custom on your hire-date anniversary to provide 1 pound of M&Ms for every year that you've been with the company. Today is my anniversary. I started at Microsoft on June 21, 1993 (yeah that's right 93). A lot has changed in the last
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