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This is actually a re-post from my personal blog . I'll make the usual disclaimer here that I'm not calling out anyone specifically, whether it be at Microsoft or elsewhere. It's just a topic that I feel very strongly about. I have to admit that I've...
There was a fairly awesome pissing match between “Uncle” Bob Martin and, well, everyone, on Twitter today. Twitter isn’t a great venue for this kind of thing, because it’s hard to read and hard to make a solid point, but basically Bob suggested that you...
After almost a year and a half, I'm leaving my dev position in Server and Tools Online to be a program manager in the SQL Azure BI organization. My motivation for the change probably doesn't matter much to people reading this blog, but I will say that...
(This is a repost from my personal blog , but I figure the audience here is also, if not more, appropriate.) I don't usually read anything that Robert Scoble says, because he's about as relevant to technology as my cats are, but the High Scalability blog...
I can't say that I've ever known any kind of Web-based service to suck as much as Twitter, yet be as simple and popular. It really boggles the mind. As just a regular user, it can be annoying enough with the constant outages and failures. As a developer...
It sounds like something to write in a one year anniversary post, but I have to say that I get slightly annoyed at what people say Microsoft is. It's the typical news story and blog comment noise, and I probably shouldn't care, but it still annoys me...
I went to my first Nerd Dinner today. For those of you not aware, our fearless community ninja manager, Scott Hanselman , organizes get togethers for code monkeys and the Microsoft folk that love them. It's a great chance to get out and meet people, find...
Please... I beg of you... if you give talks or do video recordings demoing programmer stuff, stop saying, "I'm gonna go ahead and..." I don't know how it happened, but you may recall that it's a joke from the movie Office Space. For several years though...
There has been a great deal of noise in the techie community about standards, and a sudden and unexplainable hate for Flash. This noise isn't coming from consumers... the countless soccer moms, teens and your weird uncle Bob, it's coming from the people...
I'm closing in on a month now at Microsoft. OK, not really, because with the holidays and a week out for a pre-hired trip, I'm obviously still in a bit of a ramp up mode. Although I checked in some code last week, which is very exciting. In any case,...
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