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Maker Faire and Popfly Results

Posted Wednesday, May 30, 2007 9:12 PM by johnmont
Well, we saw a lot of people at Maker Faire, but the biggest thing we did was the ducks. Sure we gave a lot of demos, but for every demo we gave we had four kids painting ducks. Here are some of the ducks that the kids painted, Popfly-style. Read More...
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Twitter + Virtual Earth in Popfly

Posted Friday, May 18, 2007 2:36 PM by johnmont
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Popfly Humor

Posted Friday, May 18, 2007 2:32 PM by johnmont
Drew Bollman has posted his mashup wish list . He had me at #1. Read More...
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Maker Faire: Meet the Popfly Team

Posted Friday, May 18, 2007 1:58 PM by johnmont
Tonight a lot of my team and I head down to San Mateo, CA for O'Reilly's Maker Faire . I've never been and am pretty excited to see what people are up to -- things like the Fab@Home look neat. We'll be in the Microsoft Coding4Fun booth giving demos of Read More...
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Welcome to Popfly

Posted Friday, May 18, 2007 8:47 AM by johnmont
Today (that'd be Friday) we're announcing Microsoft Popfly(tm) , which is the project my team has been working on. It's a simple, web-based tool that makes it easy to create mashups, web pages, and so on. We also have a Visual Studio 2005 package that Read More...
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Do People Want to Tweak?

Posted Friday, March 09, 2007 10:56 AM by johnmont
I believe that people want the ability to control their digital experiences – not just setting backgrounds or uploading photos, but the ability to completely change any aspect of any product or website they use and reconfigure them at will. In other words, Read More...
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Sir Ken Robinson on Education

Posted Thursday, December 21, 2006 6:44 PM by johnmont
My boss sent this my way a couple of days ago. I put off looking at it since it seemed like it would be work-related and we all know that in the weeks preceding and following Christmas It Is Forbidden to Do Work . In any event I watched it today and finally Read More...
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RTB Finished

Posted Wednesday, December 13, 2006 10:09 PM by johnmont
One of the meetings that our division inflicts regularly schedules is called "running the business" (formerly they were called "rhythm of the business" but I think someone noticed that we don't got rhythm). Our team had its RTB meeting today. It went Read More...
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Power Outage

Posted Wednesday, December 13, 2006 1:40 PM by johnmont
This morning, building 41 lost power. Steven Wilssens (one of the PMs on my team) and I were just settling into some deep conversation when everything went black and the fire alarm started whooping and periodically saying, "Lobby, lobby, lobby" in an Read More...
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Calculating Operational Costs

Posted Monday, November 13, 2006 9:24 AM by johnmont
One of my tasks over the weekend was to calculate how much it would cost to operate a service. I can't tell you what the service is, of course, since actually providing useful context is far beyond the scope of this blog. ;-) However, I had a good sit-down Read More...
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US Imagine Cup: Not Just Algorithms

Posted Thursday, October 19, 2006 9:42 AM by johnmont
One of the largest challenges facing CS students is the transition from being a CS student to writing production code in a work environment for a living. Historically programming challenges have focused more on CS-student-oriented work, but this year Read More...
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Doing the Happy Dance

Posted Thursday, August 24, 2006 8:59 AM by johnmont
After a review with SomaSe last week in which we demoed what I'll just call "our stuff" (though the credit belongs to Adam Nathan , who really needs to update his blog), we went yesterday to present to Bob Muglia. The last time I presented to Bob in any Read More...
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Safari's Development Playground

Posted Thursday, August 24, 2006 8:51 AM by johnmont
As part of my team's work we bought a Mac for testing. Setting aside how cute that little box is and how interesting it's been to get it to work on the Microsoft network (bone up on your IPSEC, please), we've been trying to get Safari to work and have Read More...
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Job Descriptions

Posted Friday, June 30, 2006 8:03 AM by johnmont
I’ve found that writing job descriptions is harder than I thought. In particular, it’s harder because I’m writing for so many audiences: for the internal developers and PMs who might be interested, the external folks, for other managers, and so on. Here’s Read More...
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Amaze Me 2

Posted Thursday, June 29, 2006 11:32 AM by johnmont
I was riding the bus into work the other day when I realized that bus route calculations are kind of like the maze problem, only harder. Imagine that you live in a city (e.g. Seattle) and that you use buses to get everywhere and you want to be able to Read More...
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