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It feels weird not to append a # at the end of a blog title. Oh Tip of the Day, what have you done to me? Anyways… I’m really excited to see a .NET User Group get created back home. Shout outs to Keith Elder and Aubrey Cote for getting this
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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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Marty, this blog post is for you. =) I flew down to San Fran last night with Alan . It was my first (and last) experience in First Class. As soon as i sat down, i turned to Alan and asked, "do your feet touch the ground?" There
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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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That's why our Sensei and many other high-ranking black belts said to me last night. I torn my shoulder in Jan 07, then broke my leg in May 07, spending the entire summer on crutches. The irony is that we won a world karate tournament back
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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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My sincere thanks to Keith Elder who has been doing the lion's share of the work to put together this geek dinner. He's got the details on his blog, including who has RSVP'ed thus far. Contact Keith if you're in the area and want to attend.
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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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Ken Levy got me a set of super.fi Ultimate Ears earphones a while back to try out. At first, I was scared of them, because it sounded like the music was literally inside my head. And this is at volume level 1 on a Zune. But then i slowly
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I'm heading home for Mardi Gras, so Keith Elder and I are organizing a "Geek Dinner" in Hattisburg on Monday, Feb 4. (Lundi is french for Monday). If you are interested, either contact me directly or leave a comment. We're going
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In an earlier post about CodeMash, i mentioned that I got a fauxhawk, because it is a mohawk for women. Apparently, the hair dresser back home was wrong (or i really misunderstood her). David Beckham (soccer guy) popularized the fauxhawk,
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Quite possibly the best conference I've ever been to. Even though I attended very few sessions, what made the experience so great was chatting with users of both CodePlex and VS tip of the Day . And I have to say that I got a rush from so
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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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