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Office 12 Developer Labs at PDC

John Peltonen — Tue, 13 Sep 2005 00:45:00 GMT

If you're at the PDC, be sure to check out the developer labs for Office 12. A few of us at 3Sharp along with Charles Maxson of Office Zealot fame and Scott Jamison put together a bunch of quick (20-30min) introductions to various new features of the Office apps (Word, Excel, Ppt, InfoPath, etc) from a dev perspective. The beauty is that they won't take a whole lot of time, so you could conceivably cram a bunch of them in between sessions. (If you've been expecting to hear from me and haven't, it's because we were neck deep trying to ship these in time!)

Be sure to let David Gerhardt know if you like them as he ran the project :)

As always, if you are at the conference, it would be a sin not to stop by the cabanas (assuming it is set up anything like TechEd) to talk with the various PMs. This is your best chance to a) figure out where they are driving Office and b) influence the direction. You are literally talking to the spec writers!

Body Movin...

John Peltonen — Wed, 15 Dec 2004 02:15:00 GMT

We are all putting in killer hours trying to ship a cool new Office solution that will show up on MSDN and all the other cool places. It's not as big as FabriKam, but in certain ways, it is much more complex and deep. Anyway, we're all working really hard on it. Here are two events that just happened at our office (it's currently 6pm and we're warming up for the evening :^)

Right Now!
Devin called someone crafty. Someone else started blasting She's Crafty by The Beastie Boys
1/2 of us started break dancing in the halls (not necessarily pretty, but you never know).
The other 1/2 tried their best to pretend that nothing was out of the ordinary...

Just before hand
My email to the team:
Talk amongst yourselves and let me know when “you“ are hungry.
A reply:
Emails like this aren't helping my our schizophrenia

Project Management

John Peltonen — Thu, 30 Sep 2004 04:56:00 GMT

One thing I really wish that my school offered for CS majors is a course on project management. We've got some procedures in place, but I readily acknowledge that we can (and should) tighten them up. With that in mind, Chris and I headed off to Contrux's three day crash course on project management...