Archive for November, 2003

JFK to SEA

Friday, November 14th, 2003

Zawodny remarks on the low fares for SJC to JFK. Tip for people going SEA to JFK, check out Jet Blue. Flights are all pretty much redeye, and serve no meals, buta number of our people who commute regularly between the two cities use Jet Blue and have no complaints. And the prices are really […]

Application Coach

Thursday, November 13th, 2003

Just getting back from PASS summit where I was trying to help out the teams competing in the application development shootout. A bunch of us from the SQL team have been doing shifts as “Application Coaches”, where we are supposed to be experts in the various technologies the teams need to build the application.
I had […]

Sometimes a Dream is Just a Dream

Thursday, November 13th, 2003

About two months ago, I had a very vivid dream of losing a molar. In the dream, the tooth fell out and broke into multiple pieces. Losing a tooth in a dream is often a symbol of changes and growing in your life, and I thought of the dream in that context. When you are […]

Ted Leung @ OSAF

Tuesday, November 11th, 2003

Dunno how I missed this one; yesterday was Ted Leung’s first day working at OSAF. All I can say is that this is very lucky for OSAF, and now they stand a better chance of actually doing things right. I had similar feelings when they hired Rys McCusker, working on a similar area of the […]

Storyboarding UI

Monday, November 10th, 2003

Today I am mocking up some UI storyboard. This is one of the fun parts of being a PM, and something I don’t get to do much since my group is concerned mostly with API design. The last time I did any intensive storyboarding was when we were designing XQuery Builder, which we showed at […]