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Developer Chat RSS Feeds!

Posted Monday, April 25, 2005 12:56 PM by jledgard
Via Jana's Joint Many have asked me about RSS feeds for upcoming chats. Here are a few you could register for: chat RSS feeds ( Developer ) ( IT Pro ) ( Windows Server ) I'd bet that there will also be some more specific feeds available in the future Read More...
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MSDN Forums What's Update for 4/24

Posted Saturday, April 23, 2005 3:07 PM by jledgard
Today I posted the 2nd "what's update" to the announcement forum over at the MSDN Forums Beta site. You can find it here . This update is the first to thank some of the top contributors in an unscientific way so far on the forum system. I'd like to try Read More...
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The Effects of an Angry Customer E-Mail Regarding the Forums

Posted Sunday, April 17, 2005 7:24 PM by jledgard
IMO the MSDN Forums have been doing really well so far. The early success and feedback has been encouraging to the point that I believe the forums will ultimately be a welcome edition to official MS community offerings. I've been pretty stressed about Read More...
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Fun Forum Stat - Answer Rate

Posted Tuesday, April 12, 2005 11:15 AM by jledgard
What's interesting about the new MSDN Forums is that we can track a true answer rate as opposed to simply the response rate in the newsgroups or other web forum system. It allows contributors to focus on unanswered questions for each forum or for the Read More...
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New MSDN Forums Welcome and Weekly What's Update

Posted Monday, April 11, 2005 6:37 PM by jledgard
Because imitation is the highest form of flattery and I'm 90% sure that the bungie guys are too busy to sue me for stealing their idea I decided that it's probably best to start posting regular "what's update" for the MSDN Forums . The first update is Read More...
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Great New JobCast with Dilberts Replacement

Posted Friday, April 08, 2005 1:42 PM by jledgard
I must first disclose that, since I'm married to the creator of the Jobcast (Blogcast, Podcast, whatever you want to call it) series I am completely biased. Now that I've cleared that up I have to say that her latest interview with Hans Bjordhal is great. Read More...
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More Information on the MSDN Forums Beta

Posted Friday, April 08, 2005 1:00 AM by jledgard
Update : Check out the new forums welcome post . Word is starting to get around about the MSDN Forums Beta . I guess I should jump in as well. I helped drive the project from the Developer Division side of things, but we wouldn't have anything to talk Read More...
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MSDN Forums Beta

Posted Thursday, April 07, 2005 10:32 PM by jledgard
http://forums.microsoft.com/msdn !!! Beaten to my own stories again. You can be sure that I'll have more to say on this later. At the moment I'm actually still working to fix an issue with a demo video I did for our internal mail. Apparently not all codecs Read More...
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Hiding a List Item in IE???

Posted Tuesday, April 05, 2005 1:56 AM by jledgard
I'm trying to shrink the size of the "Archive" list on the right side of the page. If you are looking at this blog in firefox you'll see what I mean. (minus the link to "Full Archive" I intend to put there.) Below is the CSS override that works in firefox. Read More...
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Please Ignore the blog construction

Posted Monday, April 04, 2005 8:58 PM by jledgard
Time to whip this blog into shape. I really like what some of my co-workers have been up to. I'm trying to decide if I want to keep up the 3 column view. The first thing I've done is add my own "login" link to my blog. My link, unfortunately, doesn't Read More...
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I think I found a running mate

Posted Monday, April 04, 2005 8:46 PM by jledgard
I think I found myself a running mate for my plan to take over the Whitehouse . Read More...
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My Plan to Fix Daylight Savings Time

Posted Sunday, April 03, 2005 3:01 PM by jledgard
This morning I had to be at tryouts for the amateur baseball league I play in by 8:30 to scout for our team. I don't generally get to work before 8:30 so Daylight Savings Time was rough. From the looks of the cold, soggy, dreary eyed tryout players, DST Read More...
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Quick Notes on the Community Server Blog Upgrade

Posted Saturday, April 02, 2005 10:44 PM by jledgard
These are simply my thoughts after playing with the new site for a couple of hours. I'm having some ups and downs with the new engine so far. I'm sure I'll come to love it and there are probably some good workarounds to several of the issues I'm having. Read More...
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Update on the Channel9 CPX Team Logo Competition

Posted Friday, April 01, 2005 11:26 PM by jledgard
I owe everyone an update. if you submitted an entry and would like a C9 foam guy you'll have to send my your address. You can do so via the contact form on my blog. There were over 70 submissions to the CPX Logo Competition and so we had to narrow down Read More...
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