April 30, 2008 – 10:32 am
This morning I accepted an offer for a job on the Visual Studio team in Redmond (Seattle). My wife and I are super excited about this opportunity. Unfortunately it means that I’ll no longer be an MVP. (A small price to pay I guess).
Scott Hanselman summed it up well when he joined Microsoft last [...]
March 12, 2008 – 10:57 pm
Since I launched TFSBuild.com - the Team Build & MSBuild Recipes site earlier this year, it’s been averaging ~50 visits a day.
There’s some great recipes up now thanks to some contributors like dmcewing, Michael Ruminer, Martin Woodward, Mike Douglas and Eugene Zakhareyev.
Keeping the Build Number and Assembly Version in sync
Build and Assembly [...]
November 29, 2007 – 6:51 pm
I last looked at the number of subscribers of the OzTFS.com mailing list in May 2007. Back then it was at 222. I’m happy to report that the organic growth continues and we’re now at 300 subscribers.
My observation is that people are still contributing regularly and getting value from the list. If you have any [...]
I came across this post by Simon Guest (the only guy able to logon as ‘guest’ at Microsoft) on Why Online Communities Fail.
He states three reasons for failure:
Purpose - “This online community will be for [audience] to [action] in order to reach [goal with incentive].”
Seeding - The initial “drop” of information that will attract people
Barrier [...]
