I have always been hesitated to write this post but since I’ve been fortunately enough to have great career mentors and I recently got to a new career stage, I’d like to share some of the career tips that benefited me over the years: Before you get to senior level, there’s only one tip: Get things Done, well, …
You’re writing unit tests with Visual Studio and you want to verify that you’re throwing the correct Exception. You could use ExpectedExceptionAttribute class but it only allows you to verify the type of the Exception. You might want to verify other properties so you decide to create a subclass of ExpectedExceptionBaseAttribute, which allows you to have …
Log Parser is a great Microsoft tool for processing text-based data. Its scriptable COM components can be easily consumed by .NET applications. Recently I ran into an interesting error when using the COM components with C#. The data input for the parser is a TSV ((tab-separated values) formatted text log file. Here is code: LogQueryClassClass …
1,000+ participants at 30+ project sites added up to nearly 4,000 hours of service in a single day. Seattle Works Day is a fun and easy way to green up Seattle. Microsoft also broke Seattle Works Day records. We had three projects this year with over 300 participants – our largest group ever. Microsoft has …
After working in SQL for more than 19 months, I have decided to pursue a new opportunity in Office Live. On June 1, I’ll begin my Office Live adventure.
Cool product, cool name, cool website. I saw the demo in our company meeting and I really like it. http://www.microsoft.com/surface/ Executive Q&A: What the new surface computing category means for Microsoft and consumers http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2007/may07/05-29Surface.mspx Microsoft Launches New Product Category: Surface Computing Comes to Life in Restaurants, Hotels, Retail Locations and Casino Resorts http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2007/may07/05-29MSSurfacePR.mspx
I’d like to share an interesting article on Microsoft’s profits published a while ago: 10 Reinvigorating Facts About Microsoft’s Profits … Microsoft last week announced quarterly revenue of $14.4 billion and net income of $4.93 billion. In other words, Microsoft’s daily net income is about $55 million. That’s $55 million in pure profit every 24 …
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My mentor James at Microsoft recently started a blog with the name “Progressive Development”. It talks about best and worst practices of software engineering in the format of entertaining conversations between two figures Motley and Maven. I knew James through his class at Microsoft and he is a fantastic teacher with excellent engineering knowledge and …
If you don’t know what Bedlam DL3 means, I encourage you to read this blog entry You Had Me At EHLO… : Me Too! Yesterday, a similar event happened, in a smaller scale though. Someone sent an announcement email to the Bluehat Alert DL with more than 1000 members at the company. The email was …
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Today Bill Gates announced his transition plans: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13348456/ Essentially in two years, Bill Gates will transition away from a daily role at Microsoft to focus on the charitable work of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. However, he will continue to be the company’s chairman after the two-year transition period. Bill Gates always is my …