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VidasM

ronpih — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 18:10:00 GMT

Vidas Matelis has been twittering like crazy about PowerPivot. At this point, he's the one to follow for info about what's happening in PowerPivot land. He is also starting up a new PowerPivot website similar to his SSAS-info site.

Stack Exchange Testing Site

ronpih — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 07:51:00 GMT

I just found out about this today: http://testing.stackexchange.com. I'm there...

PowerPivot Resources

ronpih — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 01:56:00 GMT

Lots of stuff happening in PowerPivot-land so I've added a section on the right for PowerPivot links. It will grow over time.

Zero to 60 in 2.8...

ronpih — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 18:49:00 GMT

Wow, Rob is really on fire as a blogger. I'd say if you want to stay abreast of the PowerPivot world, his blog is a must.

Maturity Models have it backwards

ronpih — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 17:50:00 GMT

(via Esther Derby on Twitter)

http://jerryweinberg.amplify.com/2009/10/28/maturity-models-have-it-backwards/

Rob Collie Blogging

ronpih — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 17:00:00 GMT

(via Donald Farmer on Twitter) Rob is a program manager (I think) on our team and has just started a blog. His second post talks about a project he will develop on his blog that looks really interesting.

Donald Farmer on Gemini on .NET Rocks!

ronpih — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 06:12:00 GMT

http://www.dotnetrocks.com/default.aspx?showNum=490

Gemini Blog Posts

ronpih — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 22:51:00 GMT

Our PMs are starting to author Gemini blog posts that describe various aspects of Gemini. There are two new ones:

How unique can it be?

ronpih — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 19:11:00 GMT

Filling out a web form this morning I came upon this field:

"In lieu of a signature, we require a unique identifier. What is the first letter of the city in which you were born?"

Gemini on Channel 9

ronpih — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 03:10:00 GMT

Two of my hall-mates, Julie and Donald, are interviewed on Channel9 about project Gemini.

YASGV

ronpih — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 08:55:00 GMT

(Yet another short Gemini video): http://www.microsoft.com/officebusiness/office2010/Default.aspx?vid=Geminiv

Buying Books

ronpih — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 21:26:00 GMT

I like buying books from Amazon. They have really done a great job of making book buying friction-free. But I love buying book from the Pragmatic Programmers even more. Why?

All their books are available in both paper and ebook formats. Recently I've been trying to cut down on actual physical books and have taken to only buying ebooks. It's great that all their books are available in ebook formats.
Note that in #1 I said formats (plural). Their ebooks are available as pdf, epub, and mobi which means I can read them on my computers, iPhone, or Kindle. This is huge for me.
Book availability in beta.
I like the subjects of many of their books. They have books not only on various technologies but also on management, self-development, testing, etc.

GemMinute

ronpih — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 15:16:00 GMT

Donald Farmer is doing a series of "Gemini in one minute or less" screencasts at http://www.youtube.com/geminute

Update: I guess it should be 2 minutes or less. All 4 (current) videos are a bit longer than a minute.

Gemini Emerging

ronpih — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 15:13:00 GMT

The product that our team has been working on for a while is starting to emerge. We have released our first CTP to coincide with Office Beta 1. We have also started a team blog at http://blogs.msdn.com/gemini.

Running Around...

ronpih — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 22:39:00 GMT

Taking a day off from work to run around and do some errands; doctor, dentist appointments. In between, I'm installing Windows Server 2008 R2 (RC) on my home desktop system. After that, a bunch of applications to install and configure...