A View from Elsewhere

John Montgomery's Weblog

I'm there. Most of my PM team is there. My PUM is there. Gee, I wonder if something is happening at...

Author: johnmont Date: 02/20/2007

As my team gets nearer to shipping (fingers crossed) life at home turns back to normal, which means...

Author: johnmont Date: 02/19/2007

My wife and I went to Music and Lyrics this evening. Lighthearted romantic comedy with some cute pop...

Author: johnmont Date: 02/15/2007

A while ago I tried to split my blogging into two: one for personal, one for work. Well, I failed...

Author: johnmont Date: 02/15/2007

Warning: this is a rant. I'm not expecting people to take it seriously. All helpful suggestions and...

Author: johnmont Date: 12/22/2006

Lazy programming is getting its due.

Author: johnmont Date: 12/22/2006

There are many sites that do this, but FlightAware seems to be the one I keep coming back to.

Author: johnmont Date: 12/22/2006

My boss sent this my way a couple of days ago. I put off looking at it since it seemed like it would...

Author: johnmont Date: 12/21/2006

How to browse Digg at work.

Author: johnmont Date: 12/21/2006

Peter O'Kelly boldly predicts there will be fewer bold predictions from analysts in the future. This...

Author: johnmont Date: 12/14/2006

One of the meetings that our division inflicts regularly schedules is called "running the business"...

Author: johnmont Date: 12/14/2006

Who out there just writes and posts their blog entries, and who spends time and edits them? Just...

Author: johnmont Date: 12/13/2006

This morning, building 41 lost power. Steven Wilssens (one of the PMs on my team) and I were just...

Author: johnmont Date: 12/13/2006

I stopped drinking Coke a long time ago, preferring to abuse my system with high levels of coffee...

Author: johnmont Date: 12/13/2006

A long time ago, I got to be the editor of Jon Udell's BYTE column, which gave me the opportunity to...

Author: johnmont Date: 12/09/2006

The mail from one of my team's recruiters today said that Mr. John Montgomery would be doing the "as...

Author: johnmont Date: 12/07/2006

Was Joel aiming at me? Probably not, since his nemesis here is "stunningly-good-looking." Oh, and if...

Author: johnmont Date: 11/13/2006

I've now spent over a month dabbling in the new office coffee, produced by the local Starbucks...

Author: johnmont Date: 11/13/2006

One of my tasks over the weekend was to calculate how much it would cost to operate a service. I...

Author: johnmont Date: 11/13/2006

One of the largest challenges facing CS students is the transition from being a CS student to...

Author: johnmont Date: 10/19/2006

As part of Microsoft's efforts to make its employees happier, healthier, and generally more...

Author: johnmont Date: 09/27/2006

I've joked about this for a while, but I'm starting to believe there is a business opportunity...

Author: johnmont Date: 09/21/2006

Today, Glenn Fleishman posts about the broad coverage of Wi-Fi on trains and speculates, Let’s...

Author: johnmont Date: 09/21/2006

The idea of sitting in a coffee house writing up some of the strategy and tactics documents that I'm...

Author: johnmont Date: 09/21/2006

Gizmodo.com is often funny, but this review of an MP4 player is hysterical. As the first commenter...

Author: johnmont Date: 08/25/2006

I made a passing comment yesterday or the day before to Charles Fitzgerald (once described as...

Author: johnmont Date: 08/25/2006

In case you haven't noticed, I'm a bit of a skeptic about most things. Some might even say I'm a...

Author: johnmont Date: 08/24/2006

After a review with SomaSe last week in which we demoed what I'll just call "our stuff" (though the...

Author: johnmont Date: 08/24/2006

As part of my team's work we bought a Mac for testing. Setting aside how cute that little box is and...

Author: johnmont Date: 08/24/2006

bbSpot does it again.

Author: johnmont Date: 08/22/2006

Blake's list of free Windows software reminded me about the Windows Live Local add-in for Outlook, a...

Author: johnmont Date: 08/22/2006

If you're not familiar with Camtasia, you should be. It's a tool for capturing what Jon Udell calls...

Author: johnmont Date: 08/22/2006

After a few comments from coworkers and commenters on my blog here on MSDN, I've come to the...

Author: johnmont Date: 08/22/2006

Our team is going through the exercise of purchasing new systems and we're weighing the benefits of...

Author: johnmont Date: 08/22/2006

I’ve found that writing job descriptions is harder than I thought. In particular, it’s harder...

Author: johnmont Date: 06/30/2006

I was riding the bus into work the other day when I realized that bus route calculations are kind of...

Author: johnmont Date: 06/29/2006

After about four months of working through some hard problems, I’ve begun to center our team on a...

Author: johnmont Date: 06/29/2006

This came up in the context of the development experience we’re working on. One of the objects we...

Author: johnmont Date: 06/28/2006

While I’ve been running around creating PPTs and sending email, Adam has been working on a prototype...

Author: johnmont Date: 06/27/2006

We have our first developer. Adam Nathan has joined us. If that name sounds familiar, it’s because...

Author: johnmont Date: 06/27/2006

We still need a name for the team. Since none of the ideas we came up with previously seemed to pass...

Author: johnmont Date: 06/26/2006

Conexxion by Boeing is an in-air 802.11 wireless service. As far as I know, it’s the ín-air 802.11...

Author: johnmont Date: 06/25/2006

My favorite tool today is… Knee pads. Not just any knee pads, though: CLC’s Gel Kneepads with...

Author: johnmont Date: 06/01/2006

Earlier this week I ordered a 13-inch Grizzly planer-molder. Our initial job for it is to plan...

Author: johnmont Date: 05/26/2006

Surprising factoid: after HTML and Javascript, C++ is the language most used by non-professional...

Author: johnmont Date: 05/25/2006

I’m not encouraging you to switch jobs, but this made me laugh.

Author: johnmont Date: 05/25/2006

Let me preface everything in this post with the statement that SPSS is a remarkable tool for data...

Author: johnmont Date: 05/24/2006

Check out Number 10. Another bbSpot special.

Author: johnmont Date: 05/24/2006

Today I did two in-person interviews and five phone screens plus set up another four informational...

Author: johnmont Date: 05/23/2006

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