Welcome to MSDN Blogs Sign in | Join | Help

Sara Ford's Weblog

My adventures embracing open source on CodePlex and at Microsoft

News

    • Did you know... All author proceeds go directly to sending Hurricane Katrina survivors to college.

      Microsoft Visual Studio Tips book

      Recent Entries

September 2004 - Posts

Moving on from Accessibility
On September 1st, I stepped down from my role on the Visual Studio Accessibility Team. This month marked my 3 year anniversary working on Accessibility. I feel that I have done everything that I could do in this space. And I saw such passion and dedication Read More...
My Thoughts on The Dark Tower (spoiler-free)
I started reading The Dark Tower series about 4 years ago when Wizard and Glass came out, so I haven’t known Roland and his ka-tet as long as some other Constant Readers have. But I can safely say I love this series as much as they do. For those of you Read More...
3 years = 3 dozen M&M cookies
Friday last week marked my 3 year anniversary at Microsoft. I’ve been telling people that I’m starting my senior year on the Visual Studio team, to which people reply, “what happens when you graduate?” I tell them “grad school, I guess.” My feature area Read More...
I've moved to the Editor team!
Ever since I started at Microsoft on the Visual Studio team, I’ve always wanted to own the editor. You can’t have a development environment without an editor, so I’m really excited to own such a critical aspect of Visual Studio. Some of my new feature Read More...
As Hurricane Ivan approaches my hometown, I’m forced to watch the action from Seattle
It’s a rite of passage on the Gulf Coast to be a part of a major hurricane. Most of the people I’ve talked to today think I’m crazy that I wish I were home for Ivan. But they have never lived through hurricanes like we gulf coasters have. There’s something Read More...
2 abandoned American Foxhounds in Kellogg, Idaho need a home ASAP
Update #2 - I just got off the phone with Shoshone Rescue - the local rescue. The newspaper forward my contact info to them. They said that the dogs are indeed American Foxhounds and are brothers. They are going to run ads in all of the newspapers in Read More...
Page view tracker