2011 year end roundup

I’m at no loss for blog material, but have been short on time (that’s not going to change, so I’ll need to tweak priorities). But…I wanted to write something a bit different  from normal in case anyone else ever needs to solve this specific problem (or if anyone else knows that this problem already has…

I’ve been in my new office for nearly a month, so I thought I’d share a tour. For the most part, it’s a typical Microsoft office – about 100 square feet with a window, desk, door and …stuff. Here’s what you see when you walk in the door. I have three computers. A HP Z400…

I’ve been playing with the Thematic Framework for WordPress a bit over the last few months. I like it because it’s simple, easily extendable and massively tweakable. I’m not much of a designer, but I was having fun making my own child theme for Thematic when I came across Child’s Play theme from scottnix.com. I…

I mentioned this at TestBash a few weeks ago (and on a yet-unreleased ABTesting podcast) – and probably on twitter too, but my third “secret” project in a row at Microsoft (following Xbox One and the science project to make Android apps run on Windows Phone) was finally announced to the world on November 2nd….