My video went live today. You can find it here at
http://port25.technet.com/archive/2006/06/29/2666.aspx
Let me know your thoughts.
(Pls note that i’m currently out of office attending my 10 year high school reunion in Waveland, MS – Katrina Ground Zero, so expect a delay in response time.)
Check out Korby’s Interview on CodePlex on Port25, a variation of a Channel 9-style website to hold discussions regarding Open Source and how it relates to Microsoft. The transcript hasn’t been posted yet, so here’s a (rough) breakdown of the discussion timeline.
I’m sure Korby would love to see some comments….
Korby’s Interview
0:00 – What is a Product Manager
1:00 – What is CodePlex?
1:45 – What is your history at Microsoft? – begins with Visual Source Safe
4:30 – History with blogging
6:15 – More on CodePlex
9:10 – CodePlex versus GotDotNet
12:00 – Where did the name CodePlex come from?
14:15 – CodePlex Architecture Overview (Begins describing TFS)
22:40 – What makes CodePlex not a web interface
26:10 – Wiki Functionality
28:00 – Homepages on CodePlex
30:00 – Projects on CodePlex
31:00 – Korby’s Favorite projects
33:44 – External (non-Microsoft) Projects on CodePlex
35:00 – Wrap up – CodePlex as a community resource
hint hint, you may see a power toy interview up there very, very soon…
I’m headed back on this Friday for my 10 year high school reunion to be held hopefully somewhere. The school’s website hasn’t been updated with the latest details, so a bunch of us are just going to meet up at the Crab Fest after the Race to Rebuild. I’m still not sure whether to sign up for the 10K and just walk the last 5k, or just run/walk the 5k. it is very, very hot down there this time of year.
While I’m down there "on vacation" i’m going to work on my BlogHer presentation. Here’s a very, very rough outline thus far.
Other ideas? The feedback i got from other Bloggers is to tell stories, and i have a lot of those. Since i’m going down there, if there’s specific info you’re curious about, just let me know. For example, how many people are reading blogs, and if so, which blogs have they found useful?
In case your organization requires installing only signed binaries, we’ve provided code-signed versions of the Power Toys on MS Downloads. If you do not require installing signed binaries, we strongly encourage you to download the power toys from CodePlex, so you can join the community there, get the source code, raid bugs, get the latest updates, etc.
Note that both versions (MS Downloads and CodePlex) are identical, except for the fact that these have been signed.
Signed versions locations
Last week Josh posted his Developer Solutions FY07 success factors draft and asked me to write-up the FY07 goals for the power toys. I worked with everyone on the team to ensure their personal goals and ideas were reflected below, so I’m proud to present a killer set of goals for the upcoming year.
Questions, comments, thoughts, ideas, and devil’s advocates are always welcomed. Spam is not.
Deliver Great Developer Power Toy Solutions
Over the next year, we’ll continue to deliver great power toys as Shared Source releases, addressing developer pain-points and providing great serviceability tools.
Enable DevDiv participation in Shared Source Releases
Power toys don’t just have to come from the Developer Solutions team alone. We’ll pave the way for other teams in the division to ship their own power toys.
Empower and Drive Community-Developed Solutions
We don’t just want to throw code over the wall. We plan to build a community around both the tools themselves and the idea of contributing your own Power Toy to the collection. These goals define how we plan to grow a self-sustaining community around the Power Toys for Visual Studio.
The current CodePlex design provides an all-or-nothing access model to the source control repository. Either I give users full access to check in their code contributions or I (or another project developer) check-in the code on their behalf.
Before we begin, here’s a brief overivew of the different users on CodePlex, so you’ll have appropriate context for this blog entry.
Here are the pros and cons of both approaches as I see them apply to our Power Toys efforts. (Note: our Power Toy FY07 goals will be posted shortly, so soon it will be clear what we’re trying to achieve here.) Also note that for other open shared source projects (maybe even some of our future power toys), these pros and cons could / will be totally different.
Members-only – no one has access to the source
Free-for-all – everyone has full access to the source
My blogger-sense is telling me I need to have more of an in-between moderation model.
Gatekeeper – anyone can check-in, but the coordinator and/or a developer must approve the check-in
Since CodePlex doesn’t have this notion of Developer versus a random contributor (and I’m not trying to imply this is a limitation of CodePlex – this is just my “wag” at a model that works for my team and our goals), I’m trying to solve my all-or-nothing dilemma by introducing for the time-being an Developer Escalation Model.
Power Toy Developer Escalation Model?
The million dollar question- How does one become a developer on a Power Toy CodePlex project?
My current thoughts are (and please let me know if you agree / disagree – it’s your community too)
Also, if someone is just going to contribute 1 check-in ever, I probably don’t want to make him/her a full developer. I want the list of developers for the project to be viewed as an “active” list of developers. It also feels unnatural to grant people full developer access for the rest of time if they are just going to make one check-in.
So, for those who have been at collaborative-development longer than I have (which for me has been 1 month now), am I on track or am I totally missing the forest for the trees by over-engineering this entire process?
Thoughts?
There’s nothing worse than watching your team lose a soccer match than not being able to scream at the TV while they are losing. I watched the US vs Czech game on campus in the local café this morning, but to my surprise and disappointment, it was quite empty. Maybe 15 or so people came out to watch. The guy next to me was the only vocal one (and sometimes quite wrong), so I held my emotions in. Screaming at the soccer game is an outdoor activity, where people are free to move away from you, unless the entire bar is made up of Brazilians screaming at the top of their lungs with you (my experience at UMass for the Women’s World Cup in ’99 – good times!) But for the record, tackling a player from behind during a breakaway is only a red card-able offense if there’s nothing between the player and the goalkeeper (aka a crystal clear shot). Since there were lots of defenders around, it was only a yellow card offense, not a red card one.
There’s one stat that explains the entire game – offsides. Czech had 10, and US had 0. I don’t think we had any controlled touches on the ball the first 75 minutes, until the fresh legs came in. And what was up with the little passes in the middle in front of the Czech penalty box? So frustrating to see no one from the US step up and make an attack – no you take it, no you take it, no you take it, oops the ball got stolen. And another thing I didn’t get. Why did we always do short passes for Corners or quick starts for (in)direct kicks? If you’re not controlling the field, don’t waste the opportunity for a shot on goal.
Italy on Saturday. I cringe. I cry. A little piece of me dies each time the US World Cup team loses on ESPN, or should I say ESPN2 (how silly of me to think soccer is that worthy.) Each time I think, “there goes youth soccer – another 4 year setback.”
I played soccer for 14 years (youth, high school, and club), refereed everything from under-6 babies looking for ants in the grass to rival high school boys games (I was instructed by the head ref to jump a fence to get to my car immediately after the last players shook hands) to a couple of club games in college, and an assistant-coached an under-18 girls team (the coach – a 21 year old college guy needed a little help keeping his girls from hating him =) Although I haven’t kicked a soccer ball (or been out to a soccer field) in over 7 years, I still have dreams of calling kids who just scored offsides as a linesman (offsides is determined at the time the ball is kicked, not the position of the player when the ball is received) and turning around to watch the crowd of angry parents rush me. I’m grinning the entire time =) My all-time favorite insult – this was when I was 20 refereeing a state match, “Children should not be allowed to referee these games.” Something about being 5’1 and wearing all black, I guess.
First time since i started blogging 3 years ago that i’ve had to enable comment moderation. These sites for rape stories have been comment spamming me, and i’ve finally had enough.
For just a little while, i’m going to enable comment moderation. I really hate to do this, but i’ll try my best to check for comments every morning. Once this wave of spam attacks is over, i’ll turn it back to a free-for-all model for commenting.
Now this was unexpected bedtime reading – talk about doing a triple-take. According to the June 06 article Fixer-Uppers, Waveland is getting a laundry mat. I asked a few folks at home, but no one has heard anything yet. So, I’ve contacted Wired for more info – I’m holding them accountable for Waveland getting a laundry mat. =) just kidding. Stay tuned…
I know I’m not a writer. I knew it even before an English major rewrote a blog entry for me. So, I’m pleased to link to an entry about returning to Waveland from a NBC 6 South Florida Managing Editor. Thanks Barb for the plug!
http://www.nbc6.net/weather/9296236/detail.html
Make sure you check out the slideshow at the top of the page Images: Return to Katrina Ground Zero. Slides of interest
#10 – this is where Dock of the Bay (a popular local bar) used to stand. You are looking at exactly what was left the day after Katrina.
#35 – I miss home (gathering on the beach)
#45 – I miss home even more (shrimp boil)
Still, it is absolutely bizarre to get updates about my family through the media. =)