Archive for July, 2006

Agile 2006 is here!

Friday, July 21st, 2006

Tomorrow I and a bunch of other Microsoft types head for Agile 2006 in Minneapolis. Looking forward to it, maybe see some of you there - whomever "you" might be.   If nothing else Google are sure to bribe us with free beer at their reception on Wednesday night.   Which reminds me... ...

Interviewing at Microsoft

Saturday, July 8th, 2006

So one of the things I get to do a lot of as a Development Lead is interviewing - we're hiring. Screening possible candidates over the phone, organizing loops and ultimately interviewing candidates when they visit campus. I actually really like this part of the job, you get to spend time ...

ServerDocument Rules of the Road

Saturday, July 1st, 2006

Another question people ask me a lot is what the rules of the road are for using VSTO on the Server with the ServerDocument class. Typically because they're trying to add a customization on a machine that doesn't have Office installed using ServerDocument.AddCustomization. The problem is that AddCustomization behaves differently depending on ...

Long time no Blog…

Saturday, July 1st, 2006

So it's been a long time since I wrote anything here. A couple of things have happened. I got promoted to Development Lead and I now have a team of five or six guys to look after and get cranking as we move into the next product cycle. We're also using ...