Korby Parnell's Social Software Wunderkammer
A "Wonder Cabinet" of Web 2.0 Curiosities
Answers to Your SourceSafe Questions
An email arrived in my Inbox recently from a customer that read, “I've got ALOT of questions,...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 03/31/2004
X Marks the Spot
Microsoft Main Campus, from the air. The X-shaped buildings, the original six, look alternatively...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 03/31/2004
Another BBC Wiki
In my lunchtime reading today I happened upon DadBlog, who points to a new BBC Wiki (a MoinMoin...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 03/26/2004
The New Manhunters
SF seeks stable, employed, single, MICROSOFT MAN... [Leslie Fullbright, Seattle Times] “In...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 03/26/2004
TechEd 2004, I'll be there
I, corporate blogger; am a contributor to and consumer of the Microsoft corpus blogus. Funny thing...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 03/23/2004
Surfing the WikiWave
Today is an historic day. David Ornstein just announced WikiTalk, an OOP scripting language for...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 03/21/2004
MyBookshelf
A typical Microsoft bookshelf? Yes, that is dental floss marking a very important page in ASP.NET...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 03/20/2004
Sipping from the Microsoft Firehose
“Sipping from the Firehose” is Microspeak for, 'I have 111 documentation issues (ahem,...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 03/18/2004
Wiki as Wunderkammer
Wunderkammer, which is one of my favorite words in any language, means “wonder cabinet”...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 03/14/2004
Recursive Get of VSSVersion and VSSItem Doesn't Work in VSS 6.0d
By default, the Get method does not work recursively in Visual SourceSafe 6.0d. Accompanying error...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 03/12/2004
What is an RSS Feed?
If you glanced at my previous two posts and mused, 'What the heck is an RSS feed and what does this...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 03/11/2004
RSS for Microsoft Knowledge Base (KB) Articles
In a recent email exchange between me, my dev lead, PM, and one of the developers on the SourceSafe...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 03/11/2004
RSS for VSS
[S.B. Chatterjee] Greg Reinacker's tool that generates RSS feeds from Visual SourceSafe was...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 03/10/2004
New VSS Project on GotDotNet
Lance Hunt has created a GotDotNet workspace for public development of his managed wrapper for...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 03/09/2004
Who is Korby Parnell?
For the life of me, I don't know how anyone with an ounce of modesty can bring themselves to write a...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 03/09/2004
Meet David Ornstein
If you're interested in WikiWiki (you know, that revolutionary, Web-based collaborative authoring...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 03/09/2004
Blog Memetics and Kittens
This by way of Cameron by way of Word Soup by way of [extrapolate here]. I wonder if the creation of...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 03/08/2004
Integrating Your Code Docs into VS.NET On the Fly
Building on another Code Project article that describes how to automatically generate documentation...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 03/07/2004
Using "Relevant_Masks" to Add Files to VSS Selectively
A reader who must have seen my previous post about how to deploy files selectively using wildcards...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 03/05/2004
How To: Deploy VSS Project Files Selectively
A reader emailed me this request for more infomation yesterday, “We keep several types of web...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 03/04/2004
VSS Label Differencing (on Longhorn!)
He hasn't coughed up the code yet, but K. Scott Allen has written a lovely little utility that shows...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 03/03/2004
Babies. Everywhere.
We interrupt our regularly scheduled programming to bring you this: [Category: Non-Computer]. As...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 03/01/2004
Dinner at Crossroads (1 part Slashdot, 2 parts Wiki)
I dined with Raymond, John Porcaro, Mick, Anita, Scoble, JP Stewart, Annette (no blog handle...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 02/25/2004
WikiLinks in my Blog
Last week, I linked from my blog post, WikiWiki as Tech Review Vehicle to the tip, or latest...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 02/23/2004
Pre-Presidential Spamming
John Kerry is spamming Omar's blog: Referreral spam from John Kerry? LOL.
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 02/19/2004
System.IO.Directory.Copy()?
Answer me this, .NET gurus: <primalscream>Why</primal_scream> does the...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 02/19/2004
SourceSafe for non-Software Developers
Before I came to Microsoft, I worked in the inspection department (a double wide trailer, actually:)...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 02/17/2004
O'Reilly eTech Goes Political in 2004
Steve Gillmor provides an insightful but at times bizarre stream of consciousness analysis of former...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 02/14/2004
Create your own VSS explorer using IVSS
As a percentage of the general population, I don't suspect too many of you will find this very...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 02/12/2004
Local Government is Not a Spectator Sport
[This is as good a time as any to remind both existing and prospective readers that you can...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 02/12/2004
Dave Winer Visits Microsoft
Dave Winer, writer of the longest running blog in the blogosphere, is speaking here at Microsoft as...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 02/09/2004
SCC Plug-in Switcher for Visual Studio
[Update: The feature depicted in the bitmap below will not be available until the Beta 1 release of...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 02/05/2004
Project BabyMak RTM
Congratulations to Steve Makofsky and his wife on the birth of their son, Tyler Jacob (domain name...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 02/04/2004
Democratization::Technology-Induced
One of the amazing editors on my team recently sent me a loooong but engrossing email wherein...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 02/04/2004
ASP.NET Applications without Web Projects
Darrell Norton commented on one of my recent posts, “Fritz Onion and others liked to use class...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 01/30/2004
Will Intrablogging Succeed in the Enterprise?
Post Edited ;-) at 1420 hours PST on 29/1/2004 Link to related post: The Semantic Bliki. I don't...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 01/29/2004
The Future of Visual SourceSafe - Part II
You asked for screenshots of the next version of Visual SourceSafe. I pleaded for the privilege to...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 01/23/2004
VSS Password Guidelines
A customer recently asked, “In most VSS articles, the recommendation is for the VSS password...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 01/22/2004
Approaching Domain Omniscience
If you live in Outlook or are reticent to install an RSS aggregator such as SharpReader, you can...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 01/20/2004
Best Practices for Setting up Source-Controlled Solutions that Contain Web Projects
A customer recently hit me with the following question: “When we set up our web projects, we...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 01/15/2004
Sudden GoogleGreatness
Last night, I typed “Parnell“ into my Google toolbar and was surprised to see a link to...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 01/09/2004
Standing At the Future Intersection of Smart and Television
I’ll be the first to admit that I’m not a bleeding edge hi-fi, home entertainment kinda...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 01/05/2004