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This morning, several hundred Microsoft bloggers received an internal email (unrelated to blogging)...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 10/18/2004
The WikiWay: Adopt-a-Vandal
A week or two after David Ornstein released FlexWiki to SourceForge, Mike Gunderloy reflects on the...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 10/10/2004
Team Foundation vs. SourceSafe | Locking vs Exclusive Checkouts
Adam Singer, the newest addition to my blogroll, recently blogged about the Lock Command in Visual...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 10/07/2004
Email Meets WikiWiki Meets Email
One of the great things about working at Microsoft is having access to the hyperactive internal...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 10/07/2004
FlexWiki Goes the Way of SourceForge
David Ornstein, who has been working hard behind the scenes for a few months, announced last night...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 09/28/2004
Spectrum Is a Public Good
Clay Shirky, who I met at Microsoft Research's social computing symposium earlier this year, has...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 09/27/2004
Sneak Peak: Team System's New Source Control Explorer
Hot off the presses, here's a grab of the new Source Control Explorer tool window in Visual Studio...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 09/17/2004
Citywide WiFi: Grand Haven, MI Did It First
I just took a look at my Referrers list (thanks, Scott) and noticed that a number of visitors have...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 09/15/2004
Documentation-Driven Development
A former manager poses a provocative idea: end-user help topics for all new applications and...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 09/15/2004
How To: Report Microsoft Visual Studio Team Foundation Bugs
If you get a chance to install and play around with the Community Technology Preview of Visual...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 09/07/2004
Jason Mauss’ VSS Tips & Tricks
This deserves more than a trackback: Jason Mauss' VSS Tips and Tricks
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 09/03/2004
Wi-Fi (and C-Span) for the Masses
Today, eWeek reported that the City of Philadephia, Pennsylvania is considering "an ambitious plan"...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 09/02/2004
How To: Win an Autographed Visual Studio 2005 Baseball
In response to my previous post, Inspired Software Development::VSS Performance Improvements, Jason...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 08/31/2004
Inspired Software Development::VSS Performance Improvements
With all the hubbub around Visual Studio Team Foundation--which will be available for download for...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 08/30/2004
StikiWiki::WYSIWYWiki
StikiWiki might be too far from the metal to be cool to my friends ("Ack, DHTML"). StikiWiki and...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 08/27/2004
New Life
My wife Jennifer and I are proud to announce the birth of our first child: Kiera Elizabeth Parnell...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 08/09/2004
New Visual Studio Team System Wiki
Rob points to a new Wiki that is devoted to a discussion of Visual Studio Team System: the Burton...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 08/02/2004
Ahoy, BookWiki
Earlier this month, an exciting thing happened: a book was published to a Wiki. To my knowledge, it...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 07/30/2004
The Goal of Visual Studio Team System?
An interview of Rick LaPlante (GM of VS Team System) appears in today's eWeek: Microsoft's VSTS...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 07/30/2004
No Source Control Integration in Visual Studio 2005 "Express" Editions
[Michael Teper] “Mike Gunderloy pointed to the Visual Studio 2005 Product Line Overview page...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 07/29/2004
Contextualizing Software
Imagine: You're working on some legacy ASP code in Visual Interdev and you open MSN Messenger. You...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 07/29/2004
Pea Patch Policy Proposal
I ran into Redmond's mayor, Rosemarie Ives, and her husband at the annual Derby Days event earlier...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 07/26/2004
We Have a Winner!
Andrew Martin, you're the grand prize winner of The "Name That Blog" Contest. Please email me your...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 07/23/2004
Aw heck, is that a lump in my throat?
Laura introduced me to Peter Provost at the Microsoft MVP Summit a few months ago. His wife was...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 07/22/2004
SourceSafe PowerToy: VSS User Management
[CheckItOut] “A while ago the SourceSafe product team had a focus week on creating sample...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 07/22/2004
Chicago's Green Meme
Someday, most large rooftops in urban areas in the United States will be green, not black. David...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 07/21/2004
Shelve and Shelveset: What do you think?
In my most recent blog article, Selecting Great UI Text, I suggest that one of the most important...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 07/19/2004
Selecting Great UI Text
Have you ever wondered how Microsoft feature teams make their UI text decisions? Until I came to...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 07/19/2004
You can't take video in here. It's the War Room!
Do you want to know more about Visual Studio Team System? Do you prefer presentations to...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 07/19/2004
Renaming STDOUT?
Microsoft has made its living building software applications that are more self-documenting and...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 07/16/2004
How To: Shorten and Personalize Web Addresses
My friend Francesco recently rolled out URL123.com, a site that provides some killer URL...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 07/16/2004
What is a Changeset?
Curious about the source control part of Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation? Tired of...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 07/15/2004
Don't Park On Us
At our weekly meeting last night, the Redmond Planning Commission was asked to review potential...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 07/15/2004
Team Foundation vs. Visual SourceSafe, Part 1
On a daily basis, I come upon an interesting and often emerging feature difference between Team...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 07/14/2004
Blogophilia in Hatteraslandia
I set my blog dial to hibernate last week to concentrate on well, you know, work and stuff. I come...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 07/12/2004
Renaming H.EXE
Jason Barile, test lead for the new Microsoft Visual Studio Team Foundation source control...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 07/12/2004
What Do Business Travelers Want?
When planning my trip to Raleigh-Durham this week, I had to choose from approximately two dozen...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 07/01/2004
Matrix Moment
Upon arriving in beautiful Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina the other day, I jumped in a National Car...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 06/30/2004
Microsoft Throws in the Towel
“Ummm yeaaaaahhhhhhh, did you get the memo?“ In a move that is certain to save every...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 06/24/2004
The Future of SourceGear Vault
Eric Sink, who I met at TechEd recently, is truly the arctic fox of the software biz. He's also one...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 06/22/2004
Fourth of July Activities
Watch Fahrenheit 9/11. Visit the Traveling Vietnam Memorial at Redmond's Marymoor Park. Host my...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 06/18/2004
SQL ScriptSafe
Has anyone out there used SQL ScriptSafe? If so, did it meet your needs? Have you used similar...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 06/17/2004