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    Part 2: Lessons I Learned as a Project Manager Converting to Agile
    by saraford on October 20, 2009

    In my first post for this series, I stated that "Agile is the single greatest things a team could do to significantly improve the user experience and quality of their website" and "not designing the full 100% is a true blessing in disguise." By putting... more

    • Tuesday, October 20, 2009
    • in: Dev Center
    • saraford
    Part 1: Lessons I Learned as a Project Manager Converting to Agile
    by saraford on October 19, 2009

    Before I became the Program Manager for CodePlex.com, Microsoft's open source project hosting site, I worked on the Visual Studio team on four different product cycles ... I had to learn about Agile development alongside learning about open source development when I joined the CodePlex.com team... more

    • Monday, October 19, 2009
    • in: Dev Center
    • saraford
    Expanding the interoperability of eclipse4SL: Mac support comes to the Eclipse for Silverlight project
    by Vijay Rajagopalan on March 18, 2009

    In October 2008 , when Microsoft announced the general availability of Silverlight 2.0, and, as part of Microsoft’s ongoing commitment to interoperability, Microsoft and Soyatec unveiled the Eclipse Tools for Silverlight (Eclipse4SL). Today, Microsoft... more

    • Wednesday, March 18, 2009
    • in: Community
    • Vijay Rajagopalan
    Welcome Snakebite, the Newest Open Network in Town!
    by Peter Galli on February 10, 2009

    There's a new Open Network in town, known as Snakebite, which is the brainchild of Trent Nelson , a committer to Python. Snakebite is a network of some 37 servers of different shapes and sizes, spread over three sites and specifically geared towards the... more

    • Tuesday, February 10, 2009
    • in: Community
    • Peter Galli
    Web Sandbox Source Now Available Under Apache License 2.0
    by Peter Galli on January 26, 2009

    Microsoft has released more source code under an OSI-approved license: this time it has made the source code for the Web Sandbox runtime available under the Apache 2.0 open source license. The Web Sandbox project explores how to advance the web platform... more

    • Monday, January 26, 2009
    • in: Community
    • Peter Galli
    Update: Stonehenge Incubation Project
    by Peter Galli on January 19, 2009

    As Microsoft continues the drive for interoperability between different implementations on various platforms, the Interoperability Technical Strategy Team is, for the first time, participating as a code contributor to an Apache project: the Stonehenge... more

    • Monday, January 19, 2009
    • in: Community
    • Peter Galli
    SMB2: a Complete Redesign of the Main Remote File Protocol for Windows
    by Peter Galli on December 08, 2008

    SMB (Server Message Block) is a remote file protocol commonly used by Microsoft Windows clients and servers that dates back to 1980's. Back when it was first used, LANs speeds were typically 10Mbps or less, WAN use was very limited and there were no Wireless... more

    • Monday, December 08, 2008
    • in: Community
    • Peter Galli
    Microsoft at AJAXWorld
    by Peter Galli on October 20, 2008

    The AJAXWorld Conference and Expo got underway in San Jose today, under the broad theme of "Rich Web Technologies for Enterprise Web 2.0 & Social Web." Scott Guthrie, a corporate vice president at Microsoft, delivered the keynote address today, while... more

    • Monday, October 20, 2008
    • in: Community
    • Peter Galli
    CodePlex launches support for TortoiseSVN
    by jcannon on September 16, 2008

    From our very own Sara Ford , word comes of Codeplex now offering server support for SvnBridge . SvnBridge enables TortoiseSVN to talk to Team Foundation Server. From Sara, "Support for Subversion has been our number one requested feature, and by hosting... more

    • Tuesday, September 16, 2008
    • in: Dev Center
    • jcannon
    Code Parallel or Die, Part 2
    by Frank Chism on April 15, 2008

    It’s multicore time. Do you know where your parallelism is? Do you know where your parallelism is? Well you better find it! This is because you must or your users will not see the doubling of performance that they have seen for the last seven or eight... more

    • Tuesday, April 15, 2008
    • in: Dev Center
    • Frank Chism
    Supernova
    by Sam Ramji on March 19, 2008

    I’m writing this from EclipseCon in Santa Clara, California, where I’m going to announce the beginning of Microsoft’s collaborative work with the Eclipse Foundation. This started about a year ago when I met Mike Milinkovich at an open source event (the... more

    • Wednesday, March 19, 2008
    • in: Dev Center
    • Sam Ramji
    PHP on Windows
    by hjanssen on March 04, 2008

    I have this really odd feeling of Dejavu. The last blog I wrote ( here ), I started by saying that I have been very delinquent with writing blogs. So what do I do? I continue to be very delinquent with my blogs! If anything, I am consistent! :) So, why... more

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