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Thursday, May 22, 2008 10:28 AM

How to Read a Computer Book

As someone who has spent a small fortune on books over the years, this paragraph from Seth Godin's recent post on How to read a business book has me wanting to expand on this topic: Computer books, of course, are nothing but bullet points. Programmers
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Tuesday, May 20, 2008 5:04 PM

4-Year Blog Anniversary

Successful blogs, like successful journalists, are usually associated with a particular beat. For example, Mary-Jo Foley has worked the Microsoft beat for a couple of decades. Four years ago, I started this blog to write a bit about Team System. When
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Saturday, April 05, 2008 11:22 PM

Nine Years at Microsoft

Just a quick post to commemorate my ninth anniversary at Microsoft. I spent time on Friday getting rid of several boxes of accumulated clutter, including a bunch of printed specs for projects that never happened. I even found two drawings my daughter
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Thursday, March 13, 2008 12:09 AM

Some Recent Changes for Me

It occurred to me this evening that I haven't posted to this blog since early February. Following the launch of Visual Studio 2008 last month in LA, I moved into a new role (still within Developer Marketing at Microsoft) to work on marketing communications
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Sunday, September 23, 2007 11:21 PM

TED: Simply John Maeda

Earlier this year ( Managing Complexity ) I blogged about John Maeda's book, The Laws of Simplicity (Simplicity: Design, Technology, Business, Life) . Now you can watch a presentation he did around the same time at TED . The MIT Media Lab's John Maeda
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Friday, August 17, 2007 5:29 PM

Sell Your Software on Windows Marketplace, Get Paid Twice

You may be familiar with Windows Marketplace , which is one way you can sell downloads of your software online. As you would expect, you get paid when someone buys your software through the site. If you haven't added your software title to Windows Marketplace
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Monday, July 02, 2007 11:54 PM

Reorganizing for Productivity

Seth Godin has a post ( Reorganizing for profit ) that makes an interesting point about how retailers organize merchandise in ways that seemingly work better for the retailer than they do for the customer. When you go to Home Depot to get what you need
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Friday, June 22, 2007 11:58 AM

Coining a New Acronym

Just a passing thought that came up during a conversation with J.D. Meier today: Aggregated Human Aggregation (AHA) - The notion that we choose to collect information for our own personal knowledge base is merely an aggregation of information aggregated
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Tuesday, June 12, 2007 10:53 AM

The Greatest Story Never Told

While reading the comments on Sam Gentile 's post, What's Great about Being a Microsoft Developer , I followed a link to a post by Martin Plante that ended with: So for me, the "Microsoft Way" is only a street name , as there is no Microsoft Way, no real
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Tuesday, May 29, 2007 12:27 AM

Redmond-Kirkland Relay for Life Luminaria Ceremony

A couple of weekends ago, we participated in the American Cancer Society 's Redmond-Kirkland Relay for Life at Redmond High School. The highpoint for me this year was my daughter Steph's speech at the Luminaria Ceremony . Due to the low light condition,
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Friday, April 27, 2007 12:24 PM

Steve McConnell Succumbs to Blogging

Noted author and software industry thought leader, Steve McConnell , has finally yielded to the pressure to start a blog, which you can find on the new Construx Conversations site : SteveMcC's Blog . I've been reluctant to start a blog because the things
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Monday, April 16, 2007 10:25 AM

Light Up the Web

If you haven't heard about it by now, you should go take a look at Microsoft Silverlight . LAS VEGAS — April 15, 2007 — Today at the 2007 National Association of Broadcasters conference (NAB2007), Microsoft Corp. unveiled Microsoft® Silverlight™, a new
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Thursday, April 12, 2007 11:10 AM

David Platt at SD West on Why Software Sucks

Some excellent excerpts from David Platt 's keynote at SD West this year on Why Software Sucks . Why Software Sucks: Geeks Drive Stick Shift Cars (2:01) Why Software Sucks: Geeks Think You Want To Use It (3:16) Consider subscribing: Techrant , or purchasing
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Tuesday, March 13, 2007 3:52 PM

Sam Gazitt on Planning Tech•Ed

We're all in! I can now proclaim that 100% of my team is blogging. That's right, both of us have blogs. Sam Gazitt launched his blog today, and his first order of business is to blog about his number one job - planning a great Tech•Ed for developers.
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Monday, February 12, 2007 8:56 AM

Reviewing Managed Code

Last week we published an article on MSDN on the topic of reviewing managed code, which you may find interesting if your team performs code reviews or you're just looking for ways to improve your own code. Reviewing Managed Code Author: John D'Addamio
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