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Careers at Microsoft Boise

Wade Dorrell — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 00:36:00 GMT

Every month folks at NETDUG ask if we're hiring, whether they can give resumes to me, what it's like to work for Microsoft in Boise, are we moving to a larger/nicer building in Boise, etc.

You can see all currently available openings on the Microsoft careers site by searching for USA, Boise, ID. This is also where you submit your resume. The hiring managers in Boise get a filtered list of applicants interested in the positions/location, and they'll get in touch with you. If you get an invite to interview in-person in Redmond, but were applying for a Boise position, please question it... the system isn't adapted to non-Redmond hiring yet, and one of our hires had an interview location snafu. (It turned out OK though.) We do most of the in-person interviewing here, and you'll probably talk to one or more Redmond folks on the phone.

You can give resumes to me, and I can pass them along to hiring managers, although they can't really take action on them... you'll have to post it on the Microsoft careers site as well.

As for what it's like: it rocks. With PerformancePoint team you're working in a consolidating, growing, market with plenty of room for differentiation. In Boise, you're working with a tight-knit, fun-loving group who's experience in the BI space (lots of ex-ProClarity development and test people around!)

As for if, where, when, and how we are moving: if I could tell you, I would, and when I can, I will. (Update: We moved to the Idaho Independant Bank Building, we occupy a good part of the 4th floor, and the entire 5th and 6th floors.)

(And what's NETDUG? I facilitate the .NET Developer User Group's use of our training room here at the Microsoft Boise office every month, 3rd Thursday, at 7PM. If you're C#-y, TDD-like, agile-ist, or interested in any way in .NET developer technologies (Microsoft's typically, but anything goes), this is a pretty sweet group, and we'd be happy to see you. It's free. There's sometimes pizza and swag. There's always plenty of geekery. And there are lots Boise employment opportunities discussed beyond Microsoft's. That's NETDUG.)

PerformancePoint Monitoring SDK content from TechEd

Wade Dorrell — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 23:19:00 GMT

Here's the sample code and slides I showed about the PerformancePoint SDK at TechEd.

A couple notes:

The build OutputDir and xcopy post-build steps assume default locations for PerformancePoint assemblies, the Monitoring Web Service, and SharePoint :80 web application, as discussed in the BIN08-TLC slides. Please take a look and make sure they're right for your environment.
To get the samples working you'll need to alter the *.config files. See config-readme.txt for details. Let me know if you need help, I think this is the trickiest part.
If you want to use the "Live Search"-based custom data source implementation, please apply for your own Live Search application ID and insert it in SearchDataSourceProvider.cs. (It'll take about 15 minutes for the application ID to become active; until then feel free to use mine.)

Thanks!

Wade Dorrell — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 01:47:38 GMT

To everyone who attended my sessions and whom I talked to at TechEd 08: thank you! I got some of the PerformancePoint Monitoring SDK feedback I was looking for, both during the sessions, and especially in follow-on talks. I hope they, and the other breakouts and other sessions you attended were valuable. I will personally guarantee (and in fact you win a Zune 4GB if you prove me wrong) that you now more about the PerformancePoint SDK than 98% of the attendees.

I'll have the code samples for "KPI Detail Report" and "(Live) Search Data Source Provider" posted soon. I'm tweaking the path dependencies such that they work on any machine where PerformancePoint Monitoring is installed/configured, not just my VPC... with all the killer discussion, demoing, and learning going on, and the usual side conversations with Leif about Windows Media Center... I haven't gotten as far on that as I planned.

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PerformancePoint 2007 SDK at TechEd!

Wade Dorrell — Fri, 30 May 2008 23:17:58 GMT

I'll be facilitating 2 chalk-talks/Q&As in the TLC Interactive Theatre (small audience) at Tech·Ed 2008 Developers about PerformancePoint:

BIN03-TLC "Navigating the Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server 2007 SDK"
June 3 3:00PM-4:15PM
Green Theater 2

BIN08-TLC "Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server 2007: Custom Data Connectors and Report Types"
June 5 8:30AM-9:45AM
Green Theater 2

The first is going to be very high level. We want to give you a feel for what's possible with the SDK and to give you time to get SDK-specific questions answered & to get your feedback. Please let us know what scenarios we should add/tune up for the next version! If time allows, I'll show you a few samples that might get you thinking, including a KPI detail report, and a search keyword data source, and a KPI syndication solution. I'd mostly like to talk with those of you who are using the SDK, so please plan attend the 2nd session instead/also if you want deeper dive demos.

The second session will be a "show me the code"-type session, on the KPI detail report & keyword data source, tuned for those who have not already tried the SDK. It's at 8:30AM Eastern... so it'll also be a "show me the coffee"-type session.

Please stop by!