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Monday, May 03, 2004 4:47 PM

C# Community Review

One of my responsibilities is overseeing the C# team's involvement in community, where community is anything we do that has direct customer touch. Everything from working with MVPs to design reviews on new features to the C# Dev Center. Duncan , Dan ,
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Monday, April 19, 2004 12:54 PM

More on ZBB

Shaykat talks about ZBB
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Friday, April 02, 2004 11:41 AM

My presentation today

This morning I presented at a community review for my manager, my second level, my third level, and my fourth level (one of the MS VPs). The review is about how our division is doing on community overall, and I owned talking about some of the things that
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Friday, April 02, 2004 11:34 AM

How a bug becomes a fix...

Anonymous Corporate Coder wrote a comment on my ZBB post, asking what set of bugs ZBB relates to. I started to update that post, but it quickly expanded, so I've decided to write a separate post. We're organized around a milestone approach. Some milestones
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Thursday, April 01, 2004 9:27 PM

Acronym of the day: ZBB

ZBB = Zero Bug Bounce As we start moving from the writing code phase into the fixing bugs phase, the development teams start pushing towards zero bug bounce. If you've noticed that the number of blog posts from the C# team has down a bit recently, that's
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Wednesday, March 31, 2004 10:30 PM

Work/Life Balance

Every year, Microsoft does a widespread poll to determine how people view their work environment, their compensation, etc. One of the questions is something like, “Are you satisfied with your work-life balance?” That tends to be a sore topic
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Friday, November 21, 2003 4:21 PM

Tantric snacking...

This afternoon after lunch I ambled over to our admin's office in search of a small snack. I opted for some m&m's brand chocolate candies with peanuts. As I ate the 7 m&m's that were in the package, I noticed that the package was labelled "Fun
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Friday, October 10, 2003 5:23 PM

Q: Compiler compatibility vs. comformance

I got an email from a customer today, in which he noted that the C# compiler allows you to write: bool b = ... switch (b) {     case true:         ...         break;
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Thursday, October 02, 2003 11:35 AM

PM: Renaming Windows Formsh

On Tuesday, I asked a question about whether people keep their form class names and form filenames in sync. I'd like to thank all who responded, and provide a little background on the issue. To do that, I'll have to explain a bit about our internal development
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Friday, September 26, 2003 11:31 AM

Creating a great presentation

With PDC coming up, there have been lots of Microsoft entries about what makes a good presentation, and I'd like to throw my 35 cents into the discussion. Here are three things I like to keep in mind. Why is always more important than what Technical people
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Saturday, September 06, 2003 1:29 AM

PM: A new email record

Today I set a new record in the amount of time I spent on a single email. I've been trying to coordinate a change in how generics work. Ultimately, this will involve coordinating with about 10 teams to figure out how to make a breaking change without
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Tuesday, August 19, 2003 4:23 PM

Comments on new project templates

I got a ton of comments on my post on the new project templates, and rather than try to answer them in the comments, I thought I 'd answer them here, so they're at least somewhat coherent to read. Oh, and thanks for all the comments. One more note: Some
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Tuesday, August 19, 2003 12:31 AM

PM Duties Episode IV: The template strikes back...

One of the things I own for the C# team is the project system. For this, I'm what's known as a relationship PM , which means that I'm responsible for something but there's no C# team that does project system work. My job is to figure out what the C# user
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Monday, August 04, 2003 11:19 PM

WMP, album art, and Amazon Web Services

So, I'm working on a music playing application (to be revealed sometime around PDC, or perhaps a bit later if I don't get it working) to play around with Whidbey features. One of the things I want to do is be able to display the album art. So, I dust
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Monday, July 28, 2003 5:54 PM

What does a Program Manager do? (1)

Today, Scoble gave me a field promotion . After I publicly gave him a hard time for it, I got thinking about what a strange thing it is to be a program manager, and that some people might be interested in what we really do. I'm therefore going to talk
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