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Learning by Disaster

January 15th, 2009 1 Comment

I was reading an article on Raymond Chen’s blog today really made me think. The story, for those who don’t care to read it, essentially is about a service (shell.windows.com) which was created by a Microsoft developer as a proof of concept. He ran it off a computer under his desk at first and that’s [...]

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The Solution Spiral

January 14th, 2009 No Comments

A mentor of mine in my early working years taught me a whole lot of very valuable lessons that have served me well, and that I’ve tried to carry forward as we bring new folks on to the team. This is one of those lessons. Nearly everyone has had the experience of being confronted with [...]

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