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Will Twitter for Microsoft MVPs
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 Read More...
I've been Microspotted for open source!
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   Read More...
Two Talks at TechEd 2008: CodePlex and Visual Studio Tip of the Day
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 Read More...
Matt, "my dev," on DotNetRocks!
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 Read More...
South Mississippi Geek Dinner
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 Read More...
OSCON 2008 Here I come again... I hope!
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 Read More...
My open source podcasts from CodeMash 2008 now available
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 Read More...
CodePlex team learns to cook a 5 course meal at Kaspars today
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 Read More...
CodePlex Feature Requests Collected from CodeMash – Vote for what you want
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 Read More...
Attending CodeMash
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 Read More...
DevTeach Open Source Panel recording now available on .NET Rocks!
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 Read More...
Going to Silicon Valley CodeCamp 2007 Tomorrow (Oct 27)
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 Read More...
My Channel 9 Interview: "Katrina Survivor: This box is all that is left of this person’s or her families belongings. Careful"
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 Read More...
Oops, I did it again (subtitle: I've joined the CodePlex team!)
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 Read More...
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