February 2005 - Posts

• C# Status: 2/28/2005

  Sorry for the late status post - last Friday was quite a rush. We entered last week with ~50 Beta2 bugs. We've had this number for the past two weeks, so Jay and I decided to start beating the drums to get our counts down. Teams rose to the challenge Read More... Posted Monday, February 28, 2005 12:07 PM by shaykatc | 9 Comments Filed under: C# Status

• C# Status: 2/18/2005

  I was sick all last week, so this week started slowly for me as I fought fatigue and an onslaught of bugs and process issues. Our fix rates have definitely slowed this week, as we've only started accepting bugs that have a large customer impact are rigourously Read More... Posted Friday, February 18, 2005 3:12 PM by shaykatc | 5 Comments Filed under: C# Status

• Debugging .NET apps on Windows 98

  I was sick all of last week and am still recovering from the flu. My blogging slacked off a bit, but now back at work I slowly feel the need to communicate about our bugs and status again. Today we were faced with an interesting bug. Its little known Read More... Posted Tuesday, February 15, 2005 11:39 AM by shaykatc | 11 Comments Filed under: Whidbey

• C# this week: 2/4/2005

  Our shut down of Whidbey Beta2 continued this week, with ask mode beginning last Monday. Jay, Kartik and I began holding a "ship-room" meeting twice a day, where teams came in with their bugs and justified fixing them. This slowed down our bug fixes, Read More... Posted Friday, February 04, 2005 8:43 AM by shaykatc | 3 Comments Filed under: C# Status