- Sep 17, 2026 — [In Meetings, Raise Hands Before Reading](/2026/09/17/in-meetings-raise-hands-before-reading.html)

I spent five and a half years at AWS before moving (back) to Microsoft, where I work today. At Amazon, many meetings began with silent reading. Instead of presenting a document,...

- Apr 28, 2014 — [Why One Giant Source Control Repository Is Bad for You (and Facebook)](/2014/04/28/why-one-giant-source-control-repository-is-bad-for-you-and-facebook.html)

Facebook’s GIT repository is a single 54GB animal that builds Facebook. It’s not that big - they haven’t seen the MS Windows one! Actually, I take that back - anecdotal evidence...

- Mar 5, 2012 — [Why You Should Leave Microsoft, Too](/2012/03/05/why-you-should-leave-microsoft-too.html)

I read Bertrand’s post on “Tales from the Evil Empire” about him leaving Microsoft this morning. Congratulations. We have never met, but your blog was in my RSS feed for a very ...

- Oct 12, 2011 — [Migrating from CodePlex SVN to Github](/2011/10/12/migrating-from-codeplex-svn-to-github.html)

If you’re like me, trying to Migrate SVN projects on CodePlex to Github, the automatic import will timeout. This is not some kind of conspiracy. This is because CodePlex SVN is ...

- Sep 6, 2011 — [Autoconf: Maybe the First Example of Microsoft Pushing Features into the OS to Kill a Competitor](/2011/09/06/autoconf-maybe-the-first-example-of-microsoft-pushing-features-into-the-os-to-kill-a-competitor.html)

Update, September 2026: I found the original 1991 SVM article, identified and contacted its author, rebuilt both the original and later versions, and reconstructed Autoconf’s hi...

- May 31, 2011 — [Why Microsoft Should Open-Source Skype](/2011/05/31/why-microsoft-should-open-source-skype.html)

- Jun 8, 2010 — [Visual Studio 2008 Crashes: doesn't always mean Microsoft sucks](/2010/06/08/visual-studio-2008-crashes-doesnt-always-mean-microsoft-sucks.html)