Life as a Developer

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7/17/2020

This blog is about my experiences "starting" out as a developer.

So, I'm ramping up on XAML. In the smart client version of CMS, we'll allow the users to modify the...

Author: Tom Mathews Date: 11/06/2006

Back to the land of the living

Well, it's been a few months. I haven't forgotten you guys! Just been busy. Here's a recap:...

Author: Tom Mathews Date: 11/02/2006

Microsoft Gamefest 2006

I made my way over to Gamefest was this week, a conference geared to game industry professionals...

Author: Tom Mathews Date: 08/17/2006

Developing a game for the Motorola Q

Just before I went on vacation, I picked up the Motorola Q, which runs Windows Mobile 5 Smartphone....

Author: Tom Mathews Date: 07/24/2006

Vacation

Wow, it's been a month. Sorry for not posting recently, I was on vacation in Oregon for part of the...

Author: Tom Mathews Date: 07/21/2006

MAKE: Magazine lecture

Today I went over to the conference center and watched a presentation put on by Dale Dougherty,...

Author: Tom Mathews Date: 06/16/2006

XBox 360 System Update Beta

Yet another perk to working at Microsoft. :) I can't go into details, but I can say that I was...

Author: Tom Mathews Date: 05/30/2006

Performance Engineering, Training, and Town Halls

Last week I attended a two-day course on performance engineering. It was really high-level, and...

Author: Tom Mathews Date: 05/18/2006

Windows SDK now has a blog

I forgot to mention it last month, but the group I'm in now has a blog: the Microsoft Windows SDK...

Author: Tom Mathews Date: 05/10/2006

Xbox Roundtable

Last week I was also invited to an Xbox roundtable, in which we got to ask the really tough...

Author: Tom Mathews Date: 04/18/2006

Dev Div Halo Tournament Champions

We won! It was a Swiss-style championship, 12 teams facing off with another team with a similar...

Author: Tom Mathews Date: 04/13/2006

Flights of Stairs

Well, I had some personal problems to take care of late last week, and the PM told me to go home,...

Author: Tom Mathews Date: 03/28/2006

Quick Update

Wow, it pains me to see this blog languishing. We're in crunch mode this week to release the first...

Author: Tom Mathews Date: 03/03/2006

Impromptu presentation

Hmmm, looks like a post disappeared earlier this month. Sorry! This week I've worked on the search...

Author: Tom Mathews Date: 02/15/2006

Editable numbered lists in HTML

One of the requirements of the submission application is to accept a list of steps that the user...

Author: Tom Mathews Date: 02/12/2006

A week of fun stuff.

I should be posting once a week at a minimum. Looks like I was away a bit longer than that, but I've...

Author: Tom Mathews Date: 01/31/2006

Webpage Tooltips

Today was fairly productive. I spent most of it bringing the data entry form up-to-speed with the...

Author: Tom Mathews Date: 01/16/2006

Server/Client Javascripting, and Windows SDK Shipped (Party Time)

One of my most productive days yet! The file input window is finished, properly storing valid files...

Author: Tom Mathews Date: 01/13/2006

Changing Requirements, Photos, and Chats

Well, I came in expecting to work on the file-transfer code. Maaaybe tomorrow. First, I receeved an...

Author: Tom Mathews Date: 01/12/2006

Window Offices, 30-inch monitors, and Triops

I thought about not posting today, as I didn't come across any major problems in coding. I'll be...

Author: Tom Mathews Date: 01/11/2006

Working on the script, and some thoughts

I decided to put the OpenFileNames wrapper on the back burner, and get actual progress done today. I...

Author: Tom Mathews Date: 01/10/2006

C#, MFC, ATL, and Scripting

Wow. I didn't realize how hard it would be to create a wrapper for OpenFileNames. I know it would...

Author: Tom Mathews Date: 01/09/2006

Retrieving multiple files

When the users... commented... that the old portal required them to enter in one... file... at......

Author: Tom Mathews Date: 01/06/2006

Specification Reviews, Kitchens, and Comments (are finally enabled)

Today I got ready for my first specification (spec) review. There are two types of specs that I've...

Author: Tom Mathews Date: 01/04/2006

Mid-Year Career Discussions & Transition Reports

Today I mostly spent reading up on my manager's commitments, watching Career Model training (a set...

Author: Tom Mathews Date: 01/03/2006

Mentoring, Meetings, and Merrymaking

More work on the project. I finally figured out how to get the master page for the website working...

Author: Tom Mathews Date: 12/15/2005

A week has passed

Well, its been a week since I wrote my introduction (and a few hours since I posted it). Below is a...

Author: Tom Mathews Date: 12/13/2005

Intro

Hello. My name is Tom Mathews, and I've just begun as a Software Development Engineer (SDE) at...