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My adventures embracing open source on CodePlex and at Microsoft
Answer to Tech Support Quiz
The long awaited answer.... Yep, a KVM switch box was involved, but there were additional...
Author: saraford Date: 10/10/2006
Pop Quiz: How good are you at technical support?
I enjoy telling this story of these unfortunate events as a technical support quiz. Makes me...
Author: saraford Date: 10/06/2006
Hint to the Tech Support Quiz
Alrighty, need a hint? So did i on Monday. Okay, i undock my laptop and to my complete and total...
Author: saraford Date: 10/06/2006
My Team's Recruiting Video
It isn’t 1350 pounds of sand (ask Josh sometime about his beach front office – yes, we did), but...
Author: saraford Date: 10/06/2006
VS Extensibility, VS SDK, and Shared Source
James Lau is a Program Manager for the VS SDK. He describes the near future of community...
Author: saraford Date: 10/06/2006
New Comment Policy
I’ve implemented a new comment policy that comments won’t be allowed on posts older than 2...
Author: saraford Date: 10/04/2006
My Interview with James Howison, speaker from OSCON
MichaelF from the Port 25 team had a great idea to have me do a follow-up podcast with James...
Author: saraford Date: 10/03/2006
Lessons Learned from OSCON 06 - Port 25 Presentation
The Port 25 team filmed me giving my Developer Solutions (power toys) team a presentation on all...
Author: saraford Date: 09/12/2006
Katrina 1 year later - Celebrate Life event schedule in Waveland today
Posted with permission from author. Over the next few days, i’ll look for photos online to...
Author: saraford Date: 08/29/2006
Recent Power Toy "Getting the word out" Changes
Update: I’ve attached the OPML file (see bottom of this post) used to create the MSDN RSS...
Author: saraford Date: 08/22/2006
The Future of the Power Toys Forums
Many of you power toy users out there have already visited our power toy forums. We created...
Author: saraford Date: 08/15/2006
Good thing to know when making a custom editor
Good thing to know when making a custom editor By Matthew Manela (Developer Solution Intern) Here’s...
Author: saraford Date: 08/09/2006
Where are the podcasts from BlogHer?
Does anyone know if any podcasts are available yet from BlogHer? I'm specifically looking for the...
Author: saraford Date: 08/09/2006
Our Community Session Rocked!!
Well, that’s what Dave Winer (the father of blogging as we know it) told me just now. Well, he said...
Author: saraford Date: 07/30/2006
What are Mommy Bloggers?
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Author: saraford Date: 07/28/2006
Bye Bye OSCON 2006 - Wish i could have stayed longer
Wow, talk about a week of "everything you wanted to know about Open Source, but didn’t know...
Author: saraford Date: 07/27/2006
How I made Lewis Black Depressed
Tonight at Borders at Redmond Town Center, we attended a book signing by Lewis Black. He did...
Author: saraford Date: 07/19/2006
VSCmdShell 1.0 for Visual Studio 2005 Released!
The VSCmdShell 1.0 is now available as a Shared Source release on CodePlex. High-level features...
Author: saraford Date: 07/18/2006
Best Practice Analyzer for ASP.NET (alpha version) Released!
Kudos to Joe for doing a great job program managing the development and rule collection for the BPA...
Author: saraford Date: 07/12/2006
My Power Toy / Open Source Interview is now live on Port25
My video went live today. You can find it here at...
Author: saraford Date: 06/29/2006
Korby's Port25 Interview on CodePlex
Check out Korby’s Interview on CodePlex on Port25, a variation of a Channel 9-style website to hold...
Author: saraford Date: 06/28/2006
Heading Back to Katrina Ground Zero 1 year later / BlogHer Presentation Outline
I’m headed back on this Friday for my 10 year high school reunion to be held hopefully...
Author: saraford Date: 06/28/2006
Where do I find and hold on to a Mini Mario Mushroom?
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Author: saraford Date: 06/27/2006
Pave the Wave! - Rebuilding Waveland one brick at a time
Below is The Giving Circle's latest fundrasing effort. Definitely worth checking out the before /...
Author: saraford Date: 06/20/2006
Windows CE Shared Source Contest
If you've read my power toy FY07 goals, you may have noticed the part about a power toy coding...
Author: saraford Date: 06/16/2006
Signed versions of the power toys available on MS Downloads
In case your organization requires installing only signed binaries, we’ve provided code-signed...
Author: saraford Date: 06/16/2006
Power Toys for Visual Studio FY07 Goals
Last week Josh posted his Developer Solutions FY07 success factors draft and asked me to write-up...
Author: saraford Date: 06/15/2006
Developer Escalation Model for Power Toy projects on CodePlex
The current CodePlex design provides an all-or-nothing access model to the source control...
Author: saraford Date: 06/13/2006
Waveland makes Wired Magazine
Now this was unexpected bedtime reading – talk about doing a triple-take. According to the June 06...
Author: saraford Date: 06/04/2006
Return to Waveland - by NBC 6 South Florida
I know I’m not a writer. I knew it even before an English major rewrote a blog entry for...
Author: saraford Date: 06/04/2006
Using the ClassName() snippet function - an operator declaration snippet example
A previous tip of the week mentioned how to use the SimpleTypeName() snippet function. Here’s...
Author: saraford Date: 05/31/2006
Getting more space between your variables and their declarations in C#
Let’s say you want to keep your formatting rules enabled, but want to get some additional space...
Author: saraford Date: 05/26/2006
Interview on MainFunction
As I said in a previous post, I’m really behind on blogging. Back in the March / April...
Author: saraford Date: 05/25/2006
Judging at the 2006 US Imagine Cup
I have so much blogging to get caught up on, but such is the life of the release PM, as I claim to...
Author: saraford Date: 05/25/2006
How to change the generated method stub code for C#
Before you apply this tip… I strongly recommend that you backup any snippets installed by VS that...
Author: saraford Date: 05/24/2006
Hurricane Katrina's Inundation of New Orleans Interactive Guide
Awesome guide to understanding what happened to New Orleans’s levee system Aug 29 – Sept 1....
Author: saraford Date: 05/17/2006
Introducing the v1.0 Power Toys for Visual Studio - Shared Source Releases
Today we released our first three power toys as Shared Source, collaborative-development...
Author: saraford Date: 05/16/2006
Aerial shot of Bay Bridge (taken on 28 April 2006)
My best friend from elementary school Ellen Felder took this photo a couple of weeks ago of the Bay...
Author: saraford Date: 05/11/2006
Pretty Good Bay-Waveland Katrina Photo Gallery / OLA High School Reunion info
Received an email today about this pretty good site of Katrina photos. One of the best sites I've...
Author: saraford Date: 05/05/2006
Speaking at BlogHer 06
It’s official that I will be speaking at BlogHer this summer in San Jose about Blogging and Katrina!...
Author: saraford Date: 04/13/2006
The Giving Circle Easter Events in Waveland, and Ways You Can Help / Donate
Updated 4/25: Updated entry per sender’s request I get a lot of email regarding Waveland,...
Author: saraford Date: 04/12/2006
First Waveland home rebuilt south of railroad tracks
Every so often, i run into people asking me how the reconstruction effort is going in...
Author: saraford Date: 04/10/2006