User Ed - The blog of Ed Price, Customer Program Manager
User Ed is a Microsoft blog written by a Customer Program Manager, Ed Price. Ed enjoys Customer Engagement, Experience Design, TechNet Wiki, and general education around Microsoft products.
Small Basic: Turtle Polygon Patterns
Here is a gallery of some of our favorite patterns made with the Turtle object in Small Basic! This...
Author: Ed Price - MSFT Date: 01/30/2015
Power BI Pricing - What it Is & What it Will Be
What it is... https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/powerBI/pricing.aspx Power BI Add-on...
Author: Ed Price - MSFT Date: 01/28/2015
Small Basic: Turtle Stars
Do you like making stars with your turtles? You know, like this... And like these ones... Yeah, me...
Author: Ed Price - MSFT Date: 01/28/2015
Why Computers Love to Repeat Things
From the beginning of time, mankind has found itself in a unique situation… People have...
Author: Ed Price - MSFT Date: 01/28/2015
Small Basic Turtle Games & Graphics
Don't know how the turtle craze got started? Well read this: Small Basic: The History of the Logo...
Author: Ed Price - MSFT Date: 01/27/2015
Small Basic Turtle: Comparing Angle and Turn
In Small Basic, we have two different types of methods to turn your Turtle: Turtle.Angle - Gets or...
Author: Ed Price - MSFT Date: 01/26/2015
Small Basic Turtle: Absolute Motion VS Relative Motion
When giving commands with absolute motion you’d be giving universal coordinates. For example:...
Author: Ed Price - MSFT Date: 01/26/2015
Small Basic: The History of the Logo Turtle
Let’s take a look at where the Small Basic Turtle object came from! Turtle graphics were based on...
Author: Ed Price - MSFT Date: 01/26/2015
Women in Analytics - What the???
Hello! Microsoft loves to help women succeed in the technology workplace! Personally, I have four...
Author: Ed Price - MSFT Date: 01/20/2015
Try out the New Power BI Preview (clap clap) Today!
Read all about it here:...
Author: Ed Price - MSFT Date: 12/18/2014
Microsoft Curah! - Curate the web and share what you know.
What is Microsoft Curah!? Curah! - Curate the web and share what you know. Curah!, the new content...
Author: Ed Price - MSFT Date: 10/30/2014
Small Basic for Kids - Ages 10-12
We're featuring a Small Basic book from Philip Conrod and Lou Tylee! Learn more about the book here....
Author: Ed Price - MSFT Date: 10/29/2014
Thank you for your participation!
Thank you for taking our survey! The survey was successfully submitted. We'll review the results. To...
Author: Ed Price - MSFT Date: 10/15/2014
Curah! A new content curation platform launched by Microsoft
Take the guesswork out of the process and just get to the good stuff! Find and share annotated...
Author: Ed Price - MSFT Date: 09/04/2014
NEW WHITEPAPER: Using Power BI in a Hybrid Environment
Summary: Many organizations are taking advantage of the benefits of cloud computing such as lower...
Author: Ed Price - MSFT Date: 08/23/2014
Small Basic Quiz 02
I'll ask you some questions, and you tell me the answers! The hints are at the bottom! Let's start...
Author: Ed Price - MSFT Date: 08/05/2014
Small Basic - Hints for helping Cathy (and her babysitting career)
Here's a problem to test your Small Basic skills... Cathy wrote the following program to figure out...
Author: Ed Price - MSFT Date: 08/05/2014
Alice in Small Basic Land - early thinking
This is an early look at a potential Small Basic Community Challenge. The idea here is that we...
Author: Ed Price - MSFT Date: 08/05/2014
The Origin of the Order of Operations
Have you ever taken a math class? And then you’re probably familiar with the order of operations,...
Author: Ed Price - MSFT Date: 08/05/2014
The Frog Community Project - early thinking
This is forward-thinking for a Small Basic Community Challenge. The idea is that we have some sort...
Author: Ed Price - MSFT Date: 08/05/2014
Collecting some good ASCII Art
This blog post is just exploring some ASCII art that can be used for quick exercises for new...
Author: Ed Price - MSFT Date: 08/05/2014
A Case for Insensitivity
This is Day 6 of 30 Days of Small Basic Part 1. As with all great things, there is a pun afoot! (No...
Author: Ed Price - MSFT Date: 08/05/2014
All About Help
When software was first being developed in the 80s, user assistance was born! It often included all...
Author: Ed Price - MSFT Date: 08/03/2014
Good Comments and Bad Ones
This is Day 5 of 30 Days of Small Basic Part 1. Different languages use different methods to block...
Author: Ed Price - MSFT Date: 08/03/2014
Binary Operators
The arithmetic operators (+,–,*,/) are called binary operators because they require two...
Author: Ed Price - MSFT Date: 08/03/2014
Binary Operators
The arithmetic operators (+,–,*,/) are called binary operators because they require two...
Author: Ed Price - MSFT Date: 08/03/2014
Small Basic Quiz 01
This is Day 4 of 30 Days of Small Basic Part 1. I'll ask you some questions, and you tell me the...
Author: Ed Price - MSFT Date: 07/15/2014
Small Basic Character Based UI Apps
This is Day 3 of 30 Days of Small Basic Part 1. Hello! I just wanted to compile together some of the...
Author: Ed Price - MSFT Date: 07/14/2014
How did Small Basic change IntelliSense?
This is Day 2 of 30 Days of Small Basic Part 1. How did Small Basic change IntelliSense? So those of...
Author: Ed Price - MSFT Date: 07/14/2014
Hey, what's a PDB File?
The program database (.pdb) file is used by your integrated development environment (IDE; like...
Author: Ed Price - MSFT Date: 07/14/2014
What is the Geekiest Microwave?
What would it look like? What if you could design a Microwave using Small Basic? What if "Microwave"...
Author: Ed Price - MSFT Date: 07/14/2014
interviews with Vijaye Raji, the creator of Small Basic
This is Day 1 of 30 Days of Small Basic Part 1. The truth is that Vijaye created Small Basic, based...
Author: Ed Price - MSFT Date: 07/14/2014
POWER BI UPDATES FROM LAST WEEK (May 2014)
Power View Forecasting: Evaluate prediction quality Hindcasting Seasonality Confidence interval...
Author: Ed Price - MSFT Date: 05/15/2014
NEW FREE eBook - Introducing Microsoft SQL Server 2014 (+ Power BI)
Introducing Microsoft SQL Server 2014 By Ross Mistry and Stacia Misner April 2014 125 pages In...
Author: Ed Price - MSFT Date: 04/09/2014
System Center - New Category for TechNet Guru!!!
For February, we're spreading the TechNet Guru love... Over to System Center! This is a new category...
Author: Ed Price - MSFT Date: 02/17/2014
Interview with a Visual Basic MVP and MSDN Forum Moderator - Reed Kimble
Welcome to another interview with an MVP!!! Behind Naomi N, Reed currently has the most TechNet Guru...
Author: Ed Price - MSFT Date: 02/04/2014
Interview with a System Center MVP in Turkey - Mustafa KARA
Welcome to an interview with an MVP! Today's interview is with... Mustafa KARA - MVP Who are you,...
Author: Ed Price - MSFT Date: 01/17/2014
Business Intelligence in SQL Server 2014 - Power View for Multidimensional Models
Power View for Multidimensional Models The ability to create Power View reports against...
Author: Ed Price - MSFT Date: 01/02/2014
Business Intelligence in SQL Server 2014 - SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT)
Updates to Design Tool installation SQL Server Data Tools for Business Intelligence (SSDT BI),...
Author: Ed Price - MSFT Date: 12/31/2013
Interview with a SQL Server Guru: Shanky 621
My interview is with Shanky_621. Shanky has 19K Recognition points, over 1K forum answers, and he...
Author: Ed Price - MSFT Date: 12/27/2013
Power BI Q&A - Now you can search on your own data!!!
We are excited to announce that any Power BI customer can now preview Q&A with their own data!...
Author: Ed Price - MSFT Date: 12/18/2013
Power Map helps you raise children!
Well, sort of. =^) This video is giving me goosebumps:...
Author: Ed Price - MSFT Date: 12/12/2013