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Volta preview is released

Posted Wednesday, December 05, 2007 4:25 PM by YAG
Erik Meijer and I have discussed Volta a number of times - very exciting to see it released on Live Labs . A few links that should be interesting: Erik's announcement post on LTU. The Volta team blog Wes' blog - with a "Hello, World" walkthrough HarishK's Read More...
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We have a beta up and available

Posted Tuesday, April 17, 2007 3:46 PM by YAG
I wrote a little while ago about what we were trying to accomplish with our efforts. Well, the initial beta is out. This will hopefully give you some insight into what we're working on, and a place for you to give us feedback. The overall information, Read More...
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Watch the videos directly...

Posted Wednesday, April 11, 2007 2:37 PM by YAG
Some folks contacted me and said that they'd prefer to watch the videos I mention below directly. Here they are: Bob's video: Video: It's All About Bringing People Together and my video: Video: The Architect's Perspective Read More...
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Some Microsoft.community videos up on Soapbox

Posted Monday, April 09, 2007 5:58 PM by YAG
Gotta run to a friend's for dinner, but wanted to point out a few videos up on Soapbox. One video is of Bob Rebholz - our Group Product Manager, and one is of me . Both videos talk about some of what we're working on. Read More...
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Showing what we got...

Posted Friday, March 30, 2007 10:04 AM by YAG
When I left the developer division a number of months ago, people were curious as to why. I explained that this new gig was one that kept me awake at night thinking of all the cool things we could be doing. I wrote a little about this when I first joined Read More...
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Interviewed at MVP Summit

Posted Thursday, March 15, 2007 1:45 PM by YAG
Sandy, Doug and I were interviewed at the MVP Summit about some of the stuff we're doing around online community development. Check it out here. Read More...
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Interview with Erik Meijer

Posted Friday, March 02, 2007 2:49 PM by YAG
One of the best things about working on the Linq project was getting to work and have dinner with Erik Meijer . He's not only incredibly smart - but a fun person to hang out with. Mary Jo Foley has an interview with him in Redmond Developer News . Read More...
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Theory of Constraints and TDD

Posted Friday, January 26, 2007 4:37 PM by YAG
While on my recent trip I was doing a lot of talking about Test Driven Development and Agile approaches in general. One night I was having dinner with someone and I was introducing him to Eliyahu Goldratt and his Theory of Constraints . In his book The Read More...
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Off on another speaking tour

Posted Wednesday, January 17, 2007 5:11 PM by YAG
I'm heading out tomorrow morning to Atlanta and Knoxville where I'll be speaking at the following locations: Atlanta FoxPro Users Group - speaking about Sedna Atlanta Code Camp - speaking about Test Driven Development East Tennessee .NET User Group - Read More...
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CodePlex Development Process

Posted Tuesday, July 11, 2006 4:43 PM by YAG
One of the questions I got asked in the interviews I discuss below was whether we used agile methods and how things worked. Brad, from the CodePlex team, has a great post with an introduction to their process. One sample paragraph: On the team, our process Read More...
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Interviews online

Posted Tuesday, July 11, 2006 4:36 PM by YAG
I was interviewed by Level Extreme for two of their online magazines: .NET Magazine and Universal Thread Magazine. In the .NET Magazine interview , we talked about my new position here on the Communities Team, .NET in general, Linq and a number of other Read More...
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Machine translation and RSS - Feedback wanted

Posted Wednesday, June 14, 2006 5:50 PM by YAG
I’ve been spending some time in meetings and doing some thinking about how we can start to combine some of the great resources that we have here at Microsoft. One idea that came up today has to do with machine translation and blogs. We already do machine Read More...
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MSDNWiki and thoughts on structured vs. unstructured conversations

Posted Friday, June 09, 2006 2:25 PM by YAG
Soma announced a new project today, the MSDNWiki , which takes our MSDN documentation and adds structured discussions to it, allowing you to see not only the original articles, but conversations about it, other links, etc. While you can't edit the original Read More...
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Interesting Scrum question by Doug

Posted Monday, May 22, 2006 2:36 PM by YAG
Doug posts a question about how you handle accountability in a Scrum world. If the team doesn't meet its iteration goals a few times in a row, what happens? I just wanted to post this hoping to get some more people involved in the conversation there. Read More...
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Some of the recent product releases by my team

Posted Wednesday, May 17, 2006 3:27 PM by YAG
We've had two things ship recently: CodePlex and the Microsoft Feeds Directory. CodePlex is a community site for developers to innovate and participate in collaborative development projects. CodePlex is currently in beta. For more details, check out Jim Read More...
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