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This week is the MVP Summit at Microsoft. When i'm not deleting email or getting my 4 hours of sleep (thanks upstairs neighbors), i'm hanging out with our MVPs, listening to their feedback, learning more about their projects. Thursday afternoon members
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Microspotting - Like the paparazzi, but for geeks. Here's my interview with Ariel, where we talk about community, blogging, CodePlex, agile development, and of course open source: Sara Ford on what Microsoft can learn from open source
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It's funny that I've never actually given a formal talk at a conference before, and at this year's TechEd, I'll will give two talks =) Just don't tell me to break a leg. We don't need another TechEd Scooter-Cam 1 (or a bob haircut!). Also
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Back in my power toy days, Matt Manela was a developer intern on our team, which you might remember from this post about writing a custom Visual Studio editor . Well, he came back full time last fall, and was just recently featured on .NET Rocks
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Thanks to Keith Elder for doing the lion's share of the work in putting together the Geek Dinner Monday night. Keith has a great write-up, which i'll just point everyone to. http://keithelder.net/blog/archive/2008/02/05/Geek-Dinner-Pictures-and-Details.aspx
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It's funny to read blog posts from a year ago, like my OSCON 2008 Here I come... I hope! Well, it is that time of year again for OSCON submissions, thinkweek papers, and LE MARDI GRAS!! I've submitted two talks for OSCON 2008: Towards a stronger
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First, thanks to Chris Woodruff who tirelessly hosted podcast after podcast after podcast the entire 3 days. Thanks again Chris for doing a podcast with me! And also my thanks to Michael Kimsal for hosting the open source open space podcast
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We had a team morale event today in Seattle at Kaspars . It was so much fun. We all got into small groups to follow a recipe for one of the courses, under Kaspar's watch. My group did the salad and spring rolls (i've always wanted to
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At CodeMash 2008 , I had an incredible opportunity to meet 1-1 with many various users of CodePlex, from those who run projects to those who download them. Thanks to everyone for their valuable input and making the time to discuss their ideas with
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There's just not enough coffee for west coast people who attend conferences on the east coast. For me, breakfast started at 4am PST. Hopefully this post is readable =) I'm at CodeMash in Sandusky, Ohio. First time in Ohio. First time anywhere cold in
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Although I chose the wrong line at the border to reenter the US, adding an extra 45 minutes to the wait, I successfully completed my first solo trip into Canada to sit on the DevTeach open source panel. You can find the recording as .NET Rocks! episode
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Tomorrow, I'm going to swing by http://www.siliconvalley-codecamp.com to watch my fellow Microsofties Beth Massi (VB Community) and Mahesh Prakriya (IronPython) give presentations. Both are *excellent* presenters and I highly recommend attending one of
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Yesterday, my Channel 9 interview went live that we did about a month ago on Blogging and Katrina (2 years in review), and of course, women in technology. You'll note that I'm still talking about the power toys stuff, because my transition to the CodePlex
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I'm very excited to announce that today is my first day as the Program Manager for CodePlex , Microsoft's open source project hosting website!! So yes, you can send feature requests directly to me now (or, more preferably, continue to use the site). This
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