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Tuesday, October 10, 2006 8:55 AM
Conflicts of Interest?
Nicholas Carr has a great blog entry about conflicts of interest in blogging . It got me thinking about a silent policy I've always had for myself when blogging here. I don't blog about the many vendors in the MSI creation space except the ones that I
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Thursday, October 05, 2006 8:00 AM
The Windows Live Writer team rocks.
I installed Windows Live Writer 1.0 Beta a while ago to test a project I was working on. I didn't actually boot the application or anything, just installed it. I think this proves how much of a setup geek I am. <smile/> Well, as you can see in my
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Tuesday, January 17, 2006 12:20 AM
Restarts Revisited: Windows isn't that different than UNIX
Imagine a blog entry where I try to clarify that reboots on Windows aren't that much different from UNIX.
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Saturday, January 07, 2006 9:00 AM
Blogging comments the "Scoble Way".
Imagine a blog entry where I note that I'm going to start posting comments to other people's blogs on my blog and trackbacking instead.
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Thursday, September 01, 2005 10:07 AM
PDC '05, I'll be there. Will you?
Imagine a blog entry where I note that I'm attending PDC'05 and ask if there is interest in an unscheduled WiX BOF.
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Sunday, August 29, 2004 12:56 AM
Personal musings on shipping the first version of software.
Imagine a blog entry where I explain what I've been up to as of late while shipping the first version of the System Definition Model.
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Monday, August 09, 2004 1:04 AM
Creating a Microsoft Open Source project on SourceForge.
Imagine a blog entry where I try to capture the process for creating a new project on SourceForge from Microsoft.
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Friday, June 18, 2004 11:31 AM
Balloons, fishing poles, and personal empowerment.
Imagine a blog entry where I take a lot of real life and come up with a long way to say "RTFM".
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Thursday, June 10, 2004 2:18 AM
The questions Microsoft employees keep asking about Open Source.
Imagine a blog entry where I take a Microsoft employee's questions and turn them into a mock interview in a public forum (i.e. my blog).
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Friday, May 28, 2004 12:03 PM
Local Installation Source Tool (listool.exe) released to web.
Imagine a blog entry where I talk about the new Local Installation Source tool (listool.exe) that allows you to enable, disable, and move your LocalCache.
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Sunday, May 16, 2004 5:13 PM
My philsophical musings about building setup for software.
Imagine a blog entry where I go into the details of how I believe setup build processes should work.
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Friday, May 14, 2004 11:49 AM
Checking in on the Windows Installer XML (WiX) toolset development environments.
Imagine a blog entry where I go back out to SourceForge and take a peek at all the projects that appear to be building a development environment for the Windows Installer XML toolset.
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Wednesday, May 12, 2004 10:13 AM
Windows Template Library (WTL) has released as Open Source on SourceForge.net
Imagine a blog entry where Microsoft releases the Windows Template Library project under the Common Public License.
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Wednesday, April 14, 2004 4:21 AM
So you want to be a Windows Installer XML developer?
People have started expressing interest in joining the Windows Installer XML toolset development community so I figured I should get some administrative details out of the way. If you are interested in contributing code to the Windows Installer XML toolset, it is very important to read through all four of these topics.
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Tuesday, March 16, 2004 12:20 AM
Open Source Business Conference and green light means go.
Stephen Walli mentioned he was flying out to OSBC2004 while we were waiting for the "green light" today and I thought it looked cool. So here's a bunch of links to it all.
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