A (Re)Introduction to Patterns
A couple of people have asked me why I haven't responded to this initial post on the SE Insight site. Partially it was because I recently changed teams and this has just meant that I am crazy busy at...
View ArticleWindows Identity Foundation (WIF) and Azure AppFabric Access Control Service...
My friend Alik just sent me to a pointer to a Survival Guide he is working on for the Azure ACS. The survival guide is intended to help provide a standardized means of organizing topics related to a...
View ArticleCalling all PowerShell Users…
We need your help! The Information Experience (iX) team at Microsoft is looking for your help and feedback to drive new guidance experiences over the next 6 - 12 months. For those people not familiar...
View ArticleWhy haven’t our Exception Management Practices evolved from the 60’s?
It is amazing to think how much has changed over the last decade or so – evolution of the cloud, broad adoption of natural user interfaces and general acceptance of agile development techniques – just...
View ArticleHelp write the PowerShell Survival Guide
My friend Eric Battalio is leading an effort to update the Windows PowerShell Survival Guide on the TechNet Wiki. Survival Guides are essentially categorized collections of links + comments around a...
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Steve Jobs (CLI – NUI)
Our industry lost one of its great pioneers with the passing of Steve Jobs on Wednesday. As a young computer geek from the 70's and 80's I have followed Steve Job's success for more than 30 years as...
View ArticleMicrosoft Script Explorer for Windows PowerShell Beta Now Available!
Well over a year ago our Information Experience team set out to redefine the way Microsoft delivers narrative and executable guidance to customers. We wanted to embrace prevailing trends such as the...
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Creating a semantic “PowerShell” web
A couple of weeks ago we announced that we had just released our first beta of Microsoft Script Explorer. The goal for Script Explorer was two-fold. The first was to help people looking for scripts /...
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Script Explorer Design Overview
In last weeks blog post Creating a Semantic Web for PowerShell I introduce our vision for establishing a semantic web in support of PowerShell and some of the benefits it could yield. That lead to the...
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30th Anniversary of the Sinclair ZX Spectrum
It is amazing for me to think that it has been 30 years since the ZX Spectrum was released. The BBC has a good interview with two of the designers of the Spectrum which will be interesting for anyone...
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