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Office Prank Video: Developer + Igloo = Productivity

In the middle of August Bertan took a 4 week vacation to get married. Well, as is a grand Microsoft...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 09/22/2006

Jobs for people that want to build igloos

If you are reading this then you have probably seen our “igloo video”. Like I said in the video, we...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 09/20/2006

Building Live QnA Gadgets

Betsy has a great post on how to build live QnA gadgets. Live QnA is a question-and-answer service...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 09/18/2006

VSCmdShell 1.1 Released to Codeplex

To catch everyone up... The VSCmdShell provides users with a shell window inside the Visual Studio...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 09/13/2006

Latest Video from Developer Solutions on "Going Open"

Sara recently attended OSCON and wanted to give our team a recap of what she learned there. We...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 09/12/2006

Demo night to motivate teams?

During our team's sprints we've started striving for "Demo Fridays" where our Friday scrum meeting...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 09/08/2006

An important hotfix if you can't hibernate your computer

My post about hotfixes certainly made it's way around various internal aliases over the last week....

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 09/06/2006

Team blog or Personal Blog?

Recently I received this question. Hey – I’m planning to start a blog this week to talk about new...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 08/30/2006

Do we really need another wifi/network manager running on our machines?

Let us know what you think about Windows Live WiFi Center and Windows Live WiFi Hotspot Locator. We...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 08/25/2006

John D'Addamio's blog : Power Toys and code coverage

John is the lone SDET on the developer solutions team. He's fairly outnumbered by his developer and...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 08/21/2006

Help us find VSCmdShell Bugs

Our team is going to release a 1.1 update of the VSCmdShell tool window for Visual Studio and we are...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 08/16/2006

Because there is such a thing as a bad question

It's one thing I've learned watching the progress of the MSDN forums over the last year+... there...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 08/15/2006

Learn the History of VS Express

This is a great bit of transparency where Dan Fernandez tells you, in his own words, the history and...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 08/15/2006

Google Deprecates Groups Functionality

First AOL did this, now Google is lowering google groups visibility. Seems to make sense since they...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 08/12/2006

An easy way to bulk copy sharepoint document libraries

Our team was migrating to a hosted TFS server environment this week so that we don't have to manage...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 08/10/2006

Will Live QnA suffer the Same Fate as Yahoo Answers?

You tell me. I have 10 invites to hand out to the first folks that send me thier e-mail address....

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 08/09/2006

Developer Solutions Sprint 6: BPA Tool, 1.1 Releases, & The Developer Power Pack

Today the Developer Solutions team has begun its 6th five week sprint. Sprint 5 saw the release of...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 08/08/2006

Is Yahoo Answers Really that Bad?

Q. On your recommendation, I tried the Yahoo Answers site and was disappointed by the level of the...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 08/07/2006

IOD: Wouldn't it be cool if..

Usefull code snippets, like the one that Chee Seong writes below, where automatically added to your...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 08/02/2006

Apple Fires Discussion Forum Staff - Forums Degrade

Apple Computer has decided to do away with its discussion support team, a group of forum hosts that...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 08/02/2006

6 Years = 6 Dozen Peanup Butter M&M Cookies in Front of 41/4802

I’ve been here for 6 years; let’s make sure the cookies aren’t. Thanks to everyone that’s made this...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 08/01/2006

Next Prototype Tool: Resource Refactoring

Bertan recently blogged about his next project. Feel free to leave him feedback. I saw the demo and...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 07/28/2006

Know & love your big picture

This is a question that just about every PM at Microsoft has to answer frequently. "What's your big...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 07/26/2006

Aaron's UI Design Blog: Ux and UI Design Book Recommendations

Aaron owns driving user experience consistency in Visual Studio. I recently asked him for some book...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 07/17/2006

Solutions Developer Bertan Blogs

I don't think I'd yet linked to another member of our team that now has a blog. Bertan is blogging...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 07/13/2006

Jeremy Kelley Joins the Developer Solutions team

So, technically, he joined a while ago, but he didn't have an active work related blog I could point...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 07/13/2006

I was waiting for this... Mac ad paradies

…pointing out those new Apple ads.So, you can be sure I’ll show him this spoof of those...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 07/11/2006

My only good ice-breaker

The question was posed at JobSyntax. As a previous interview candidate, have you heard any creative...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 07/11/2006

Positive Codeplex coverage with Power Toy Mentions

So www.codeplex.com has officially launched… if you’ve seen any of the Developer Solutions team...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 07/08/2006

ASP.NET Best Practice Tool Alpha Released

Last week our team published a binary Alpha of an upcoming Power Toy for Visual Studio. Try it out...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 07/06/2006

I’m always the last to know… Jobgals do podcast

I’m always the last to know… Jobgals do podcast On the "Recruiters Lounge" you’ll...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 07/06/2006

Ed Helms and Soma on Microsoft College Recruiting

This is something that should have leaked a long time ago…...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 07/05/2006

Is it wrong to laugh?

https://bigpicture.typepad.com/comments/film/index.html

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 07/03/2006

A "Universe" of Power Toys… Sara’s Video Interview on Port 25

https://port25.technet.com/archive/2006/06/29/2666.aspx Sara was recently interviewed on the...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 06/30/2006

Google Silently Adds Job Search, No Mention of Developer Solution Jobs

Or at least I had never noticed before. Via JobSyntax. Intel jobs. Microsoft jobs, Google jobs....

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 06/16/2006

What is open source? How about Open Source?

I saw this today on Slashdot. I’ll admit that there always seems to be some contention here at...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 06/15/2006

Anyone but you again

In this new age of corporate transparency and customer connection at Microsoft there is a thought...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 06/15/2006

Not your typical reality show contestants

I was checking out https://www.madeinexpress.com/ and there are some cool ideas there. What I noticed...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 06/09/2006

Developer Solutions Team FY07 Success Factors Draft

I’ve recently been tasked with collecting what you might refer to as organizational goals for our...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 06/07/2006

QnA with Josh about Scrum

Lots of questions sent my way of late. :-) This set of questions is from another team that’s been...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 05/28/2006

Answers on my perspectives about blogging

Here is another set of questions that was put to me recently... well over a month ago to be...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 05/26/2006

Yahoo, Live Search, Ask.Com, Technorati, Feedster, and even Google are all missing a boat. Not one...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 05/25/2006

Questions about the Developer Solutions Team

Here is my reply to a mail that I can post publicly. The mail was from a team in another...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 05/24/2006

May MSDN Forum Update Release

This week the MSCom team, in an effort led by Jana, pushed out an update to the forum system that...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 05/19/2006

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