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Saturday, June 09, 2007 7:18 AM

Hear, Hear! On Enthusiasm Versus Technical Debt and Sysphean Tasks

I think my coworker Rocky Lhotka in his post A Lack of Enthusiasm in the Microsoft World hit the nail on the head. I can't speak for the community at large but can speak for myself- I'm overrun with new technology and so much of it contains dependencies
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Saturday, June 02, 2007 8:16 AM

Agree or Disagree with a Software License You Must Abide By It

Yes. This is the follow up to a post yesterday about the TestDriven.NET spat with Microsoft. I have thought a lot about this and it wasn't difficult for me to digest. Though I am sympathetic to a TestDriven.NET for Visual Studio Express after reading
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Friday, June 01, 2007 12:56 PM

Microsoft and TestDriven.NET Express - How do we avoid these pitfalls?

So what do you think? http://weblogs.asp.net/nunitaddin/archive/2007/05/30/microsoft-vs-testdriven-net-express.aspx I'm still digesting this all and need to review the license terms etc. But what do you think? My initial thought is that it seems to be
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Monday, May 07, 2007 8:43 AM

Here we go again- Live Mail, Hotmail, .NET, .NET Server 2003, .NET 3.0, WinFx

Remember some years back when .NET was in its infancy and lots of Java vs .NET debates raged across the Internet. Remember how Microsoft got crazy about labeling everything ".NET" including what is now Windows Server 2003. It was for a while Windows .NET
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Wednesday, May 02, 2007 1:31 PM

Why Oh Why Can I Not Search RSS Content in IE7

I don't know of any mechanism to search my RSS feeds within IE 7. Does anyone know how? It bothers me to no end. My solution is to export and bring it into Onfolio (I had Onfolio before Microsoft purchased). I wish Microsoft would have just used Onfolio
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Saturday, April 21, 2007 10:13 AM

Claimspace - I like it

The title say it all. http://blogs.msdn.com/korbyp/archive/2007/04/19/tagspace-meet-claimspace.aspx Technorati tags: Claimspace
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Saturday, April 21, 2007 9:18 AM

Korby Parnell Introduces Microsoft Tagspace

I like the things that come out of Collaborative Community endeavours of Microsoft. One of the major players is Korby Parnell who's blog Korby Parnell's Social Software Wunderkammer is a great resouce on not only what Microsoft is doing but also Microformats
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Tuesday, April 17, 2007 1:28 PM

WSS 3.0, TFS and NOT Orcas

I try to avoid repeating the same news from the communities I am most closely aligned. I figure if I have read it so have everyone else that reads what I might have to say. But this is such great news that I couldn't help but pass it along. Brian Keller
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Sunday, April 15, 2007 11:50 PM

70-510: TS: Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Server

Anthony Borton posted about the results of the TFS Beta Exam beginning to come back . I naturally logged into Promteric and sure enough in my history it showed: TS: Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Server NEW HORIZONS Microsoft 071-510 Passed I was
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Sunday, April 15, 2007 11:26 PM

Goodbye Windows Live One Care

Goodbye Windows Live One Care. It's been nice knowing you. This is a hard break up I know. I wish I could say 'It's me not you' but 'It's you not me'. You have been a little flaky all along. You Vista support came late and you didn't or may still not
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Wednesday, April 11, 2007 12:09 PM

Want to live in Raleigh? Qualified to be a Program Manager?

If you would like to live in Raleigh, work for Microsoft, are passionate about Microsoft Visual Studio Team System and think you have the qualifications to be a Program Manager then I recommend you take a look at the following position. If all of the
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Tuesday, April 10, 2007 7:42 PM

Issues that won't be fixed in Team System- supposedly

Those that know me or even those that may casually read this blog know I am a supporter of Microsoft's Visual Studio Team System. I make a living as a consultant that focus on the Microsoft stack and as a Team System MVP also spend a lot of my days consulting
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Wednesday, March 07, 2007 4:53 AM

Visual Studio 2005 SP1 for Vista - Released - so much for my theory

The Visual Studio 2005 SP1 for Vista has been released for download. So much for my theory on the countdown for Defy all Challenges
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Sunday, March 04, 2007 5:54 PM

A peek into "Longhorn"

First off, I don't think I'm outside of any NDA . In fact I think my participation in the Windows Server Code Name "Longhorn" Invitational CTP is meant exactly for me to pass along what I find and help educate others. So... if someone reads this and I
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Thursday, February 15, 2007 11:15 AM

This is indeed cool

I have not done embedded work but have done a good bit of mobile devices in a past life and I agree with James Manning - this is cool (.NET Micro Framework)
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Wednesday, February 07, 2007 2:06 PM

Team System Chat a surreal experience

It was a surreal experience in the Team System Chat that occurred today. What was surreal about it you ask? Well, that on the question asking side was Eric Lee . It was strange to see him as a participant asking questions of the experts versus being on
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Wednesday, February 07, 2007 8:33 AM

Don't forget the arcouncil Meeting

Don't forget this months arcCouncil meeting on Monday. Event Name: arcouncil: The Web 2.0 Architecture Location: Microsoft Waltham Room: City: Waltham Start Date: 02/12/2007 Start Time: 10:30 AM End Date: 02/12/2007 End Time: 05:00 PM
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Thursday, February 01, 2007 8:08 AM

Version Control in Patterns and Practice

I always tell folks one of the few places I'd probably be really heartily enticed to work within Microsoft is Patterns and Practice and DevDiv. I'd make the coffee for patterns and practice if that was the only position I could get and is likely the only
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Wednesday, January 24, 2007 11:47 PM

TechEd 2007 the build up

TechEd 2007 registration opened up recently for registration and for submission of Bird of a Feather Session. I am still waiting on my invite to make a call for papers proposal but have yet to receive one. ;-). Last year, I did a birds of a feather session.
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Wednesday, January 24, 2007 8:09 AM

Triplet MVP

I just had to share this. Those in my office have seen this photo on my desk but I wanted to share it with a wider audience. After I received the MVP nod from Microsoft and my wonder wife Suzanne knowing how happy and proud I was recruited the triplets
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Wednesday, January 24, 2007 6:42 AM

arcCouncil Web 2.0 a Zune and TeamSysPUG

Don't miss the next arcStream East arcCouncil meeting on February 12th. Bob Familiar fills us all in in his blog entry East Region arcCouncil - The topic this month is Web 2.0 . I missed the last one with much regret but certainly have this one marked
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Wednesday, January 03, 2007 8:16 AM

Proud that Anthony was recognized as well...

I'm proud that Anthony Borton who writes his My VSTS Blog was also recognized and awarded Microsoft MVP status. He noted it in his blog entry . He is well deserving. If you haven't had the pleasure of meeting and dealing with Anthony then I hope you get
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Tuesday, January 02, 2007 1:13 AM

I'm honored to now be a new Microsoft MVP

I received a wonderful piece of email in my inbox today. The mail was an award and recognition as a Microsoft MVP . I joined the ranks of some very well respected folks in the MVP category of Visual Developer - Team System . We're a small group and I
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Friday, December 29, 2006 11:19 AM

Goodbye Dual Boot

Since the RTM of Vista I have had my development tablet dual booting with XP Pro SP2. Toshiba recently delivered all the final drivers and software that I was missing for Vista to make things function like the function keys, automatic screen rotation,
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Tuesday, December 19, 2006 7:39 AM

TeamSysPUG

Don't forget if you are in the Boston area on Thursday, Dec. 21st (that's two days away from when this was posted) and have an interest in Visual Studio Team System drop in for the first monthly meeting of the Team System Public User Group. You can find
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