Card Game Starter Kit aka "Play more Blackjack" released!- May 28, 2005 We just released the Card Game starter kit, a new starter kit for Beta2 here. Its a blackjack game...check it out! Karen on our team has been hard at work getting this out of the door and fixing bugs in it all week. The VB version will be releasing soon. Shaykathttp://blogs.msdn.com/shaykatc/archive/2005/05/27/422734.aspx C Status: 5272005- May 26, 2005 Short status today... These last two weeks have been a whirlwind ride for our team. We made a huge dent in our bugs to hit our goals for last week. We incentivized the dev team with late night dinners and they pulled through magnificently, fixing a high number of bugs. We feel good about the bugs and more back on track. We are tracking our bugs today to make sure we hit another goal, but so far its looking good. I've also started thinking about shutdown procedures. There are two models I know...http://blogs.msdn.com/shaykatc/archive/2005/05/26/422677.aspx Xbox 360 interview- May 18, 2005 Engadget, a cool tech blog I'm just discovering has an interview with Steve Ballmer and Robbie Back about Xbox 360. Check it out here. Overall I think Steve kept his cards close to his chest. I've been fascinated by all the developing news around comparisons between the Xbox360, Nintendo Revolution and PS3. The console market has its own cool set of themes - Steve mentions that for Xbox 360, he expects it to do well in the U.S, states that Sony will do better in Japan, but Europe will be where..http://blogs.msdn.com/shaykatc/archive/2005/05/18/419273.aspx Whats in a name- May 12, 2005 So my name tends to be unusual for most people. Shaykat. Its tough for people to pronounce initially (say Share-cut, then repeat but drop the r). However I've noticed an unusual trend recently. People in email type my name as Skaykat. Why The keyboard keys between h and k are a little close but its not clear to me that its just a typing error. I wonder if its because people are focusing on saying the k in my name that they jumble it when typing. Anyone got a good suggestionreason why this could.http://blogs.msdn.com/shaykatc/archive/2005/05/12/416925.aspx C Status: 5112005- May 12, 2005 Last week we rocked on bugs. The dev team kicked it up a notch and started fixing bugs to hit their goals. Along with that we fixed all our bugs that were marked Pri1 and opened greater than 48 hours than Friday. It was pretty cool. On the downside our QA team had a one day bug bash. They installed the RTM versions of the product, and spent a good day trying out different scenarios on it. Our bug count spiked because of that. And today I walk in and see another spike because we got bugs from...http://blogs.msdn.com/shaykatc/archive/2005/05/11/416655.aspx The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process.- May 6, 2005 Ever seen the error in the title...the one that happens when you rebuild your project in VS and it says: Error 1 Could not write to output file Foo.exe' --'The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process. ' This is a very frustrating error that many users have complained to us about in VS 2003. We have spent many hours figuring out these problems and fixing them. In Whidbey, we want to fix any bugs like these - we've fixed known issues from VS 2003, but if...http://blogs.msdn.com/shaykatc/archive/2005/05/05/415120.aspx C IDE community chat in an hour!- May 5, 2005 Our IDE team is having a community chat in an hour from now (1.00 PM P.S.T)! These are the guys who added refactoring to the C editor, thought about and added all sorts of cool new intellisense features, snippets to the editor etc. I wont give away too much, but this would be a great time for you to give feedback to us or ask us questionsa about the C Editor! Links to the chat can be found at http:msdn.microsoft.comvcsharpcommunitychats BTW, if you have suggestions for chat topics, feel free to.http://blogs.msdn.com/shaykatc/archive/2005/05/05/415020.aspx C Status 542005- May 4, 2005 Wowie zowie, what a fun week we have ahead of us. Yesterday, our release folks came to a collective decision that yes, we are slightly off track on our bug goals - enough to be a concern but not alarming. We sat around & discussed corrective measures. Our conclusion was that we were going to bring in dinners for the team this week to encourage them to fix that extra bug & encourage the team to start focusing on bug fixing as much as possible. The dev team also planned to do some load...http://blogs.msdn.com/shaykatc/archive/2005/05/04/414780.aspx Ever wondered what our stats are for Product Feedback bugs- May 2, 2005 Rusty, our test manager takes care of managing our customer feedback bugs from the MSDN product feedback center. He has a great post here on our stats. He compares the fixes we made for customer bugs vs. internal bugs and its interesting to see those numbers. I personally think we have a low fix rate for suggestions as they tend to be broad scale features that we just cant add on. Given this is the first release we've had this sort of feedback, I'm sure these suggestions will be used in...http://blogs.msdn.com/shaykatc/archive/2005/05/02/413990.aspx |