scooblog by josh ledgard
group manager | developer solutions | devdiv
Another MS Executive Started Blogging Last Night. Welcome Soma!
Soma, who reports to Eric Rudder and now runs the Developer Division, started his blog last night....
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 05/28/2004
Customers Overrun VS Core Team Hallway
Chad asked for your picture and some details about how you use the product we build every day. Last...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 05/27/2004
Are "Team Blogs" the "Anti-Blog"?
I used to feel this way. If someone had asked me a few months ago if I thought their team should...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 05/27/2004
VSCmdShell Update (cmd.exe integration into VS Shell)
Ok, so I had hoped to have actually had a release by now. I really am getting closer. Check out the...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 05/27/2004
Mark Cuban on Being an Information Junkie
If you haven't subscribed yet you should be reading Mark Cuban's blog. His series on "Success and...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 05/25/2004
Support the Comment API or I Won't Comment
Support the comment API. Support it so I can read and reply to comments about your post. Support it...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 05/25/2004
Responding to a VSS Bug Report
The community wins just keep coming across my desk today. Perhaps that’s because I sent out a...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 05/25/2004
My Favorite Developer Powertoys
Chris Asks: I just now discovered the Power Toys link and I am very excited about learning more. I...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 05/25/2004
RE: Just wanted to say thanks!
This was forwarded to me today. I'll add my thanks to everyone at Microsoft that is currently making...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 05/25/2004
RE: Use your cameraphone as a scanner for online grocery shopping
It will be cool to see how well this actually works. It might actually be a reasonable use for those...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 05/24/2004
I, for one, welcome our new SPAM overlords
Today is the day I deleted an alias created for the Powertoys blog because I made the mistake of...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 05/22/2004
Blog Conversation Lifecycle
I spotted an interesting commentary on the lifecycle of a blog discussion over Simon Phipp's blog. I...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 05/21/2004
Frustrated with the Visual Studio HTML Editor changing your HTML
Generally, one of the first questions I get when I tell people I work on Visual Studio is "Why does...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 05/20/2004
Chad Sends His Love and Decorates our Halls
I think this whole thing was pretty cool... A few days ago, I invited you to let me know who you...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 05/20/2004
ESPN RSS Feeds!
Awesome... now I can get the latest baseball news mixed in with my blog reading. Via Scoble Via Dave...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 05/19/2004
Updated Threaded Discussion Opinion Result Tally... Still Do Nothing?
On 5/7 I posted the first tally of results for how people would prefer their Beta 1 threaded...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 05/19/2004
Show Sara your Support for Multi-Monitor Development
I've personally heard a bunch of conflicting statements regarding how popular Multi-Monitor...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 05/18/2004
Using the Whidbey CTP Bits on Longhorn 4074
I know there has been some disappointment that Whidbey is not yet working on the latest longhorn...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 05/18/2004
Lost Post - We want your picture!
Seems that this never got posted after it was written. Anyway I wrote it again... Send Chad your...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 05/17/2004
But wouldn't it be great if... VSCmdShell Progress
I spent Thursday night with the VSCmdShell code. Having just released v0.6 that now defaults to the...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 05/15/2004
Exclusive First Look: Add New Online Templates... or other community components in VS 2005
You won't even see this stuff in the next tech preview drop! Marie, who works on my team, has been...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 05/14/2004
New MS Testing Tool for Verifying Accessibility Now Available
Sara publicly released MSAAVerify today. She has been working on it part time for two years and I...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 05/11/2004
Does Visual Studio .Net startup, load, or open slowly for you?
I've started seeing google queries where people seem to be having issues with Visual Studio loading...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 05/08/2004
Goals for Community Tech Previews
Mark, my boss, posted a long article that explains the intent and direction of the CTP program. Here...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 05/08/2004
Choices Choices Choices for Whidbey Beta 1 Discussions
If you read my blog then you know I've been doing a bunch of work that will hopefully result in a...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 05/06/2004
Sara Comments on Women in Computer Science
Watching the blogosphere of late you have most likely noticed the discussions surrounding women, or...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 05/06/2004
Question of the Day - NNTP Integration with Outlook
I've seen some posts on different plug ins for Outlook that enable NNTP integration. Does anyone...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 05/03/2004
Ignoring the "A-List" by Optimizing Your Blog Reading
Inspired by this post and recalling a conversation I had a couple weeks ago with Korby I began to...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 04/27/2004
Tips for Using Macros in Visual Studio
Over @ the Powertoys blog I posted an article with tips for using Macros inside Visual Studio. I...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 04/27/2004
What I've been Waiting for... Progressive Scan Xbox Dashboard Available
I haven't made a post that fit into my Xbox category for a while, but if this is true I'm going to...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 04/26/2004
VisualBlogger 2004 Feedback
So I just grabbed Visual Blogger from Robert Mclaws. Good stuff that I'm confident it will only get...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 04/25/2004
Scoble is a Good Thief; Steal this Post
Scoble has decided to stop his “illegal quoteblog”. Too bad. Robert's strength really...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 04/25/2004
Write an Add-In; Win Cool Prizes
What great timing. Just after we started the PowerToys Blog Roy announced he was organizing a...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 04/22/2004
Check out the Powertoys Weblog! (You can never have enough tools)
Almost a year ago we launched a static Powertoys page on gotdotnet. Today that page is no longer...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 04/21/2004
The more I think about it... NNTP Doesn't Cut It
So I've been posting ideas about how we could best merge NNTP usefulness and feature rich web...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 04/19/2004
RSS on Ipod : How it should be done
So this post has some good information on a product called Ipod Agent. It essentially lets you have...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 04/19/2004
My Bio
I’m currently a Program Manager working to increase Developer Division customer satisfaction...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 04/19/2004
Where was this when?!?!?! (pinvoke.net)
Where was https://pinvoke.net when I was writing bunches of our test automation platform that is...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 04/19/2004
Visual Studio Team Biography Program Started
Check out the biographies page that has been set up here. Members of the “Core” Visual...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 04/19/2004