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February 2006 - Posts

Let the good times roll again in New Orleans
Happy Mardi Gras to all you New Orleans natives who couldn’t make it back to the Quarter this year. And yet another Fat Tuesday in Seattle. My Seattle tradition has been Wear my LSU t-shirt Wear my “good” beads to work Watch BourbonCam (I promised myself Read More...
30 minute CNN special on Bay St. Louis and Katrina by Kathleen Koch
Last weekend, I caught whatever cold is going around, so Sunday afternoon I was out cold in bed. I woke up when my mom called to tell me what’s going on in Waveland and such. I barely remember the conversation, thanks to good ol’ Nyquil. Anyways, I can’t Read More...
My worst nightmare almost realized: Waveland appeared on the Daily Show with Jon Stewart
After the NBC Nightly News segment featured my parents, I watched The Daily Show religiously for 2 weeks afterwards, not because I’m not already an addict, but to hope and pray my parents / family wouldn’t appear in the background. Then, last week, it Read More...
Emacs and Brief Emulations Updates Available
Dylan , one of our editor devs, has posted some workarounds to Emacs and Brief Emulations bugs on GotDotNet. The Brief Emulation Add-in addresses the following issues: Bug FDBK38309 : BRIEF editor emulation for cut with no selection incorrect Bug FDBK40426 Read More...
Attending BlogHer ’06
Thanks to KC’s post , I’ve registered for BlogHer ’06 this summer in San Jose. I'm going to propose a Room of Her Own session, as I haven’t had many opportunities to do public speaking outside of Microsoft campus. What do you think about me speaking on Read More...
Our first three Power Toys for Visual Studio released
On Friday, we released our first set of Power Toys for Visual Studio! I have to say that I have a new profound respect for UE (documentation writers) and Release PMs (those PMs who drive the release of the project), as I’ve had to play both roles last Read More...
MSBuild Extras – Toolkit for .NET 1.1 “MSBee” Beta 1 Released!
The Developer Solutions team (the team I joined 4 weeks ago) is proud to announce the release of MSBuild Extras – Toolkit for .NET 1.1 “MSBee.” MSBee is an addition to MSBuild that allows developers to build managed applications in Visual Studio 2005 Read More...
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