A View from Elsewhere
John Montgomery's Weblog
Fascinating: Map of Religion in the US
This is just interesting.
Author: johnmont Date: 04/16/2006
Titanic 2
If you haven't already seen it, you should. Not the funniest trailer-recut I've seen, but there's...
Author: johnmont Date: 04/15/2006
Coming Out of the Woodwork
What is it about Microsoft employees – particularly employees in developer division – and...
Author: johnmont Date: 04/14/2006
What Law Enforcement Has Been Doing Wrong...
From the AP: "Satellite tracking, helicopter surveillance and dart guns failed. In the end, it was a...
Author: johnmont Date: 04/14/2006
Dynamic Languages for Tots
Dynamic languages (see Wikipedia if you’ve been living under a rock for the past decade or so) such...
Author: johnmont Date: 04/13/2006
Amuse Yourself...
...during a meeting today by practicing on your coworkers.
Author: johnmont Date: 04/13/2006
Got Questions?
If you haven't spent the time already, go visit "Ask a Ninja." I think "What is the ideal gift for a...
Author: johnmont Date: 04/13/2006
More Words
Why don't comb, tomb, and bomb rhyme? Why do they, say, and weigh rhyme? Why is rhyme not spelled...
Author: johnmont Date: 04/12/2006
The Evolving Cult of Personality
When I first started covering Microsoft for the trade press (Corporate Computing, then PC/Computing,...
Author: johnmont Date: 04/12/2006
"Heighth" Is Not a Word
Another word I’ve grown to dislike: heighth. More accurately, it’s a non-standard pronunciation of...
Author: johnmont Date: 04/10/2006
Asphalt and the Long Tail
The other day I got a letter from a frustrated customer – an actual, physical letter written on...
Author: johnmont Date: 04/10/2006
Explain Inheritance to an Eight-Year-Old
One of the charters of my team is to try to make the process of learning to program more fun. There...
Author: johnmont Date: 04/07/2006
So About This Ed Bott Character...
So Ed Bott was wondering why so many Microsoft people start their sentences with the word "so." "So"...
Author: johnmont Date: 04/06/2006
The Non-Professional Team
I work on the non-professional team. No, this doesn’t mean that we come to work late, drink heavily...
Author: johnmont Date: 04/06/2006
Words
Dare Obasanjo earlier posted on some of the words Microsoft has killed. These include: Passion,...
Author: johnmont Date: 04/06/2006
And These Are the People We're to Trust
Homeland Security aide suspended after sex sting.
Author: johnmont Date: 04/05/2006
Teeth
I have bad gums. I’ve had bad gums since I was a teenager. While everyone else was getting cavities,...
Author: johnmont Date: 04/05/2006
.NET CF on Xbox
Read Mike Zintel's latest post. Mike's the PUM for .NET CF. What he's talking about is using that...
Author: johnmont Date: 03/24/2006
Patent (F)Law
When I started at Microsoft, my job was originally to work with other companies in standards groups...
Author: johnmont Date: 03/23/2006
Web Services, Boredom, and Wrong Guesses
As I read the latest debate about WS-This and WS-That, I find myself entering a deep state of ennui....
Author: johnmont Date: 03/20/2006
I'm Radiant -- Radiant Floor Heating, That Is
The remodel is starting to take shape and we as homeowners have to continue to make choices about...
Author: johnmont Date: 03/18/2006
Insulated From the Real World
As part of a major renovation to our house in Seattle, my wife and I are going through the process...
Author: johnmont Date: 03/18/2006
What is the .NET Compact Framework Team Up To?
Mike Zintel seems to have gone off his rocker. Or has he? Games? The Xbox Team? .NET? What's really...
Author: johnmont Date: 03/15/2006
The Web Based IDE Again
James Governor sent me a link to this, an analysis of SketchUp, which was recently acquired by...
Author: johnmont Date: 03/15/2006
Mice or Raccoons II
Cote over at RedMonk took up the gauntlet I threw down in my blog and started to riff on the idea of...
Author: johnmont Date: 03/13/2006
Mice or Raccoons: IDEs and the Web
Google's acquisition of Writely last week got me thinking again. For those of you who've been living...
Author: johnmont Date: 03/11/2006
How (Not) to Interview a Developer
My team has an open headcount for a developer and, if things go as planned, my team will have more...
Author: johnmont Date: 03/11/2006
Watching the Drivers
When I changed jobs, moving from marketing into program management, I also changed buildings, moving...
Author: johnmont Date: 03/07/2006
"Wizards for Dummies"
The other day I installed two new hard drives in my wife's two laptops and loaded them with XP and...
Author: johnmont Date: 03/03/2006
Is Being Dead Dead?
After reading Steve Gillmor's "Office Is Still Dead" entry, I was reminded of how many times when I...
Author: johnmont Date: 02/26/2006
Tuscany Hiring
We're out of the initial handwavy portion of Tuscany planning and, thanks in large part to the...
Author: johnmont Date: 02/22/2006
Tom Yager Makes Me Laugh
In this post, specifically for the following: Developers don't work in a vacuum, although most of...
Author: johnmont Date: 02/04/2006
Not "Visual Studio Live": Call It "Tuscany"
There's a natural inclination to shorten things. "Visual Studio" becomes VS, for example, and ".NET...
Author: johnmont Date: 01/17/2006
Stepping Out for a Minute
I'm heading off for one of what my former manager has called "me and my vacations." I have...
Author: johnmont Date: 01/11/2006
On Posting Comments to My Blog
I've had several folks email me saying that they can't find a link for posting comments. That's kind...
Author: johnmont Date: 01/11/2006
On Being a Program Manager
My newest job takes me from product management (marketing) to program management (product creation)....
Author: johnmont Date: 01/11/2006
The Replies Come Piling In
So far I've had about a dozen emails and a cluster of posts about what a "Live" version of VS could...
Author: johnmont Date: 01/11/2006
A "Live" Version of Visual Studio?
After seven years in developer division marketing, I'm making a transition into the product team to...
Author: johnmont Date: 01/11/2006
An Excuse to Go To Las Vegas
Mix 06, a Web development conference from March 20-22. Looks like a good place to play with some of...
Author: johnmont Date: 12/20/2005
Just Watch for George Bush
Catchy tune, and you can dance to it.
Author: johnmont Date: 11/05/2005
Why Couldn't I Have Said That?
I manage 25 people. They have questions. I give them answers. Why couldn't I give them answers like...
Author: johnmont Date: 11/05/2005
Evidently, the Wait's Over
"Actress Sutton Foster was rehearsing a number called 'I'm An Accident Waiting to Happen' earlier...
Author: johnmont Date: 11/05/2005
No, I Am Not One Of The Village People
I decided to dress up for Halloween as a contractor. I should have painted the tools gold so that I...
Author: johnmont Date: 10/31/2005
The Truth About Blogs
Author: johnmont Date: 10/31/2005
RTM is Here: Time to Remove Betas
In general, Microsoft doesn't support upgrading from one beta or CTP to another (the user-friendly...
Author: johnmont Date: 10/27/2005