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The Blue Screen of Mort

It happened just the other day when I least expected it. No one would have expected it. Not me, not you, not your cousin, your grand-father or your grand-father’s cousin’s dog; no one. Because there was no warning, not even a hint, not a glint or glimmer Read More...
Posted Monday, June 11, 2007 5:56 PM by mattwar | 4 Comments
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Agile at Microsoft

I wasn’t always a proponent of Agile development practices. To tell you the truth, I didn’t even know what they were. Before I came to Microsoft I used to just do what I was told and simply worked the way everyone else worked. Read More...
Posted Monday, June 04, 2007 8:01 AM by mattwar | 8 Comments
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Chicken Scratches

You can tell when I'm really deep into my work, writing code that is more than just boiler plate, that has something new and unique, a special approach or optimization. But don't look at the screen, you won't necessarily see it there, unless you are good Read More...
Posted Friday, July 09, 2004 11:11 AM by mattwar | 0 Comments
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Identity Theft

I am taking the day off in remembrance of a momentous event that occurred many years ago and has special meaning to me alone. The day had great impact on a few others too, but even as great as it was my memory of it is poor, hazy at best, and I'm starting Read More...
Posted Thursday, June 17, 2004 10:25 AM by mattwar | 2 Comments
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Field of Dreams

All my really good post ideas come from dreams I had the morning before writing them. Dreams are funny beasts. Someone told me long ago that dreams are just the side effect of your brain analyzing events from the days before, and it’s the emotions Read More...
Posted Monday, May 10, 2004 10:28 AM by mattwar | 3 Comments
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Snig the Email Goblin

Snig is staring down at me from atop the secondary monitor. That’s the monitor that shows all that other stuff that I am not focused on at the moment. It might be just outlook showing my current email, or a terminal server session into a build machine. Read More...
Posted Tuesday, April 20, 2004 1:13 PM by mattwar | 0 Comments
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