Archive for May, 2006

Choice Hacker Quotes

Monday, May 22nd, 2006

Maybe the most famous, “Your Kung Fu is No Good!” - Mitnick

One of my favorites, “I am a simple victim of a random hacker who has stolen my good name and has now soiled my good reputation” - Scott Steinmetz

And today we have, “If you’re a corporation, you can just lock everything down. We […]

More on myMicrosoft/miniMicrosoft

Friday, May 19th, 2006

Lots of comments on the Mini-MSFT blog about the employee ratings changes.

Yesterday, I pointed out that the curve was always psychological, but I don’t want to lose sight of the fact that what happened yesterday was incredible and laudable:

Towels got the big applause? Why? Because it shows that management is listening, paying attention, […]

The Death of Stack Ranking

Thursday, May 18th, 2006

It is with mixed emotions that today I witness the death of stack ranking at Microsoft.

In my opinion, it’s all a psychological trick, but in the past year or so I have grudgingly come to accept that it might be good for the company.

The fact is, by banishing the curve, we are changing the only […]

MapCruncher

Tuesday, May 16th, 2006

MSR released MapCruncher 2.0 today. This is a tool that allows you to take any map you might have (subway map, hiking trails, campus map) and seamlessly overlay with Virtual Earth. Imagine zooming down from outer space, directly to your back yard, and seeing your garden layout nicely mapped. Pretty cool!

WS-* Meets REST

Friday, May 12th, 2006

Doug demonstrated this, working code, to me a few months ago. This sort of thing, baked into IE and Firefox, would change the whole landscape for people wanting the features of SOAP, but in a RESTful programming model.