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Writing Solid Code

I've just finished reading Writing Solid Code , which it seems everybody at Microsoft has and recommends. I think one of my past dev leads bought each of us on the team a copy. The odd thing is that it's having immediate effect. Maybe that's not odd, Read More...
Posted Tuesday, September 28, 2004 12:21 AM by Tosh Meston | 3 Comments
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XP SP2 and .NET 1.1 SP1

With all the articles and blog entries about these two recent service packs I was wondering if I would see anything interesting when I installed them on my laptop and home web server. The answer is no. Everything just works. My sites continue to chug Read More...
Posted Saturday, September 04, 2004 6:17 PM by Tosh Meston | 4 Comments
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Red Whittaker Visits Microsoft

Dr. William "Red" Whittaker of CMU visited the research room at Microsoft today to talk a bit about Sandstorm, the robotic Humvee , and the Grand Challenge . In robotics, there are of two schools of thought in making mobile robots. There's a top down Read More...
Posted Monday, August 16, 2004 11:13 PM by Tosh Meston | 3 Comments
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New MSN Search

Sweet. MSN Search has a new release . Looks good too without all that clutter in my opinion. Searching for myself seems to produce the same results I would find on another site. Here's more info . This comes my way via Engadget . They have a comparison Read More...
Posted Thursday, July 01, 2004 11:27 AM by Tosh Meston | 0 Comments
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Seattle Times -- Bill Gates as Chief Blogging Officer ???

Seattle Times has a piece indicating that BillG might start a weblog of his own. Wouldn't that be cool. Read More...
Posted Sunday, June 27, 2004 4:23 PM by Tosh Meston | 0 Comments
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Return of the DHTML Dude

Hmm... the return of the DHTML dude is of interest to the Slashdot crowd . Read More...
Posted Sunday, June 20, 2004 3:47 PM by Tosh Meston | 0 Comments
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Weird Afternoon at Microsoft

Weird afternoon at Microsoft today. My building sits between our conference center and a cafeteria and as I look down from my window I can see the pathway into the cafe. This afternoon I looked down and saw this woman that looked strikingly like Marilyn Read More...
Posted Thursday, June 17, 2004 10:50 PM by Tosh Meston | 5 Comments
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Ray Kurzweil Visits Microsoft

Yesterday I ran over to the MS Research lecture room to hear Ray Kurzweil speak. I guess unsurprisingly the MS folks packed the room in, but I managed to find some standing room in the back. Ray's talk was on the exponential acceleration of technology's Read More...
Posted Thursday, May 20, 2004 4:16 PM by Tosh Meston | 0 Comments
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Microsoft Bashing is so '99

John Topley has a nice piece about Microsoft and why he doesn't understand all the hatred towards it. Hear, hear! All the MS bashing does get one down after a while, even though I'd say our skins are thicker than most. I am just one of the 55,000 trying Read More...
Posted Saturday, April 24, 2004 6:17 PM by Tosh Meston | 4 Comments
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The History of Entourage

Omar Shahine shares his experience building Entourage basically from scratch. I love reading little histories like this. Read More...
Posted Sunday, April 04, 2004 10:51 PM by Tosh Meston | 1 Comments
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Don't Leave, Frans

So yesterday Frans Bouma posted his concern about weblogs.asp.net becoming less of a .NET community site and instead a pulpit for MS employees (as a result of all the GotDotNet bloggers moving here) and wondered if it's still appopriate to criticize Microsoft Read More...
Posted Sunday, December 07, 2003 11:48 AM by Tosh Meston | 3 Comments
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Newsweek Interviews Bill

Here's an interview of Bill by Newsweek's Steven Levy. A little bit of Longhorn vision, a little bit on security, a little bit on charity. Read More...
Posted Tuesday, November 18, 2003 12:24 PM by Tosh Meston | 1 Comments
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End of the Internship for the Mentor

Microsoft, as you may know, has a great internship program. We expect a lot from our interns. They usually learn a lot while they're with us and we expect them to work hard and produce naturally. This time of year in Redmond, the days are getting shorter Read More...
Posted Sunday, August 17, 2003 8:30 PM by Tosh Meston | 2 Comments
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Microsoft Developer Tools Roadmap 2003-2005

Seems like many of you guys are already up to date on future Visual Studio releases. In case you are interested in reading more on Whidbey and Orcas, you can visit this article on MSDN . Read More...
Posted Sunday, August 03, 2003 9:45 PM by Tosh Meston | 1 Comments
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Scoble on the browser as an application platform

Scoble blogs again about the browser not being an application platform and in the same entry plugs "Outlook Web Application". Man, it's Outlook Web Access, not Application! But that's ok... I wonder if Bezos thinks the browser isn't a very good application Read More...
Posted Thursday, July 24, 2003 9:45 PM by Tosh Meston | 2 Comments
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