Brian Groth's Life at Microsoft
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Summary of Built to Last
Thanks to kintan for writing up a great summary of Built to Last, which I’ve copied here:...
Author: Brian Groth Date: 12/13/2004
The Microsoft Consumer Experience Center
Since the demo that my team and I build is shown in an Envisioning Center (a really nice room for a...
Author: Brian Groth Date: 12/10/2004
Interview Questions
One of my more popular articles via Google searches is the “Why are manhole covers...
Author: Brian Groth Date: 12/07/2004
Working from Paris for a week
I get to work in Paris, France next week (November 30 - December 4) and my French is VERY limited....
Author: Brian Groth Date: 11/26/2004
Great Windows Applications to Download
I am often amazed at some of the applications people come up with. Here are a couple of specific...
Author: Brian Groth Date: 11/24/2004
Resource Kits
Resource Kits have some of the greatest tools for digging into a Microsoft product for fun, to learn...
Author: Brian Groth Date: 11/22/2004
Management Tip: The Upwardly Global MBA
I ran across a good article in strategy+business called The Upwardly Global MBA. While the article...
Author: Brian Groth Date: 11/19/2004
Script to invoke the current user’s screen saver
Thanks to The Scripting Dude for this script, which I made a small correction to. Save it as a .vbs...
Author: Brian Groth Date: 11/17/2004
Comparing search results
I wanted to find some materials to read to improve some skills, so I searched for "Improving...
Author: Brian Groth Date: 11/16/2004
Shish has a blog!
The Office, Project, InfoPath, and SharePoint (SPS and WSS) guru on my team finally has a blog....
Author: Brian Groth Date: 11/13/2004
Command-line view of ports in use
Here is a quick and easy way to dig into what ports are being used, and what apps are using them....
Author: Brian Groth Date: 11/11/2004
VB Script to get list of services into an Excel list
Borrowing some code from the following from the TechNet Script Repository for Office: Format a range...
Author: Brian Groth Date: 11/09/2004
Management Tip: Hiring Great People
At the request of Bryce, I'm adding another tip on management; hiring great people. Of course, the...
Author: Brian Groth Date: 11/07/2004
Free Microsoft Software
I didn’t realize it, but Microsoft has a TON of software you can try out for free. Microsoft’s Trial...
Author: Brian Groth Date: 11/06/2004
10x10 - Interesting view of top news stories
https://www.tenbyten.org/10x10.html has an interesting view of the top news stories. An explanation...
Author: Brian Groth Date: 11/05/2004
Amazing job opportunity
One of the more impressive groups at Microsoft, in my opinion, is the one that runs the EEC. Why?...
Author: Brian Groth Date: 11/05/2004
Microsoft 10-year party
I went to a dinner/party tonight for anyone who has been a Microsoft employee for 10 years. It was a...
Author: Brian Groth Date: 11/04/2004
Improved Command-Line with Web Services App
Thanks to Darshan Singh from https://www.yukonxml.com/. My simple app now formats the XML before...
Author: Brian Groth Date: 11/02/2004
Command-line with Web Services and Arguments
I added the small feature of being able to pass an argument to the Stock.vbs file so you can pass it...
Author: Brian Groth Date: 11/01/2004
BioDiesel Question
Does anyone out there have any experience or knowledge regarding the use of BioDiesel in a regular...
Author: Brian Groth Date: 10/31/2004
PhotoStory 3 is released for Windows XP customers
See https://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/digitalphotography/photostory/default.mspx The previous...
Author: Brian Groth Date: 10/27/2004
Identity Management Challenges
We were presenting to, and discussing with, a customer at the MTC today about the benefits and...
Author: Brian Groth Date: 10/26/2004
Flight Simulator 2004 and the team behind it
The video of the Flight Simulator team is now on Channel 9. It is 41 minutes and 20 seconds long, so...
Author: Brian Groth Date: 10/25/2004
Request for a WMI script
I am looking for a quick way to toggle my 2nd monitor, preferably using WMI, but anything will do. I...
Author: Brian Groth Date: 10/25/2004
Hey command-line junkies: Command Line Parser Updated
Are you writing your own command-line applications? Then you may be interested in this: From...
Author: Brian Groth Date: 10/24/2004
Very cool job opening
Joe Stagner and Jacob Cynamon just blogged about how cool it is to be an evangelist for Microsoft's...
Author: Brian Groth Date: 10/22/2004
VoIP, WiFi, and SmartPhones
My wife and I just setup our new-world of communications: We just got our Vonage phone, which is...
Author: Brian Groth Date: 10/21/2004
Electric-powered breaks 300mph
When I was at Western Washington University, I got to see one of their solar cars. They usually did...
Author: Brian Groth Date: 10/21/2004
Time to eat healthy
I am now convinced that fast food is a really, really, bad thing. Sure, it tastes good, but two...
Author: Brian Groth Date: 10/20/2004
Environmental Education via Software
I just ran across the EELink site and had to share it with you. They have a huge list of educational...
Author: Brian Groth Date: 10/20/2004
Visual Studio Express links
Some feedback from my last post asked for links to something other than just the .exe files. So,...
Author: Brian Groth Date: 10/20/2004
Post-beta1 community tech previews of Visual Studio 2005 express editions now available!
Thanks to Aaron Stebner for pointing out the specific links to the latest builds of these amazing...
Author: Brian Groth Date: 10/20/2004
Want a job at Microsoft?
Link to Heather's blog in your online resume. See...
Author: Brian Groth Date: 10/19/2004
Demos You Can Download
I recently cruised through the microsoft.com site looking for demos of real world solutions that...
Author: Brian Groth Date: 10/18/2004
Pocket PC Robot - Walking.
This is awesome! I would love to see some sort of a kit created to let people extend their Pocket PC...
Author: Brian Groth Date: 10/18/2004
Command-Line tools and the Windows Clipboard
Matt Williams' quest for a tool to extend the Windows Clipboard when working at the Command-Line...
Author: Brian Groth Date: 10/17/2004
PowerPoint Text to Speech, Part 2
I got some feedback from my PowerPoint TTS blog that a couple of people were having problems getting...
Author: Brian Groth Date: 10/17/2004
Not a normal Microsoft morning
This morning (Friday), I didn't get much sleep for a few reasons that might be sort of entertaining...
Author: Brian Groth Date: 10/15/2004
My First VS2005 C# App: MSNBC Newspaper App
I finally got around to building my first app with Visual Studio 2005. And no, I am not the only...
Author: Brian Groth Date: 10/14/2004
Windows Clipboard Tools
Yesterday I was helping a friend find a good way to extend the Windows clipboard, especially at the...
Author: Brian Groth Date: 10/14/2004
Solar Powered Jacket
In a recent post, I mentioned a solar powered backpack and I just got some feedback that those are...
Author: Brian Groth Date: 10/14/2004
Do you know of this command-line tool?
I have had the following request, which I don't know the answer to. So, can any of my faithful...
Author: Brian Groth Date: 10/13/2004
Digging into running processes and services via the command-line
Due to the comments in my blog entry about the RemoteRegistry process, I figured I would try to...
Author: Brian Groth Date: 10/12/2004