Back from vacation

I had taken my paternity break recently and spent a lot of quality time with my daughter. It was a little difficult to come back to work, but i think i am finally back in the thick of things. I apologize for not updating my blog in the meantime, but i think you can understand.

I have also been rethinking what i want to concentrate on in this blog. I will try to follow the following "rules" on this blog.

- I will not post something where i just link to somebody, unless i am commenting on what they are talking about.
- I will try to post a little bit more. Where possible, i will try to post original content.
- I will post about Live.com and gadgets. I will concentrate my efforts here.
- I will post about testing and automation of Live.com and gadgets.
- I will post about testing in an agile environment.
- Any general fun stories about Live.com :)

We will see how this goes.

In the meantime, we have shipped a couple of releases on Live.com. A major release went out on 3/8, which destabilized the site quite a bit. We have had some more releases since then, basically stabilizing the site and improving performance. I need to start making sure we do not destabilize the site everytime we have a major release. Search has also shipped their new UI on Live.com.

- Venkat