scooblog by josh ledgard
group manager | developer solutions | devdiv
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
We’re Gonna Need a Bigger Boat: The Race for Conversation Search
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