Archive for June, 2006

Pictures of the Microsoft Work Placement

Thursday, June 29th, 2006

I’ve finally uploaded some pictures of the Microsoft offices! Check them out here. Cool things you’ll notice in there include the sweet-looking servers, the awesome lounge room and the Xbox machines, including the Xbox 360.
Sorry for the bad focus on some of them: the photos look fine on the camera but on the […]

Blogging from Microsoft: Day 9 - zOMGFREESTUFF!1111 and work

Thursday, June 29th, 2006

I’m writing this from Day 9 at Microsoft, it’s about 4:20PM and I’ve decided to blog now rather than later. I’m going to be uploading to my gallery a selection of pics of our offices, and the beasty servers we’re in temporary control of. We obtained another server today: like the previous one,a dual-core […]

Blogging from Microsoft: Day 8 - A big task

Wednesday, June 28th, 2006

Just finished day eight of Microsoft, and it seems to have gotten progressively better and worse. We’re still in the hands of David, who has now given us an interesting task: we’ve got to put on our Developer Evangelist hats and prepare a presentation on the newly released Visual Studio Team Edition for Database Professionals […]

Blogging from Microsoft: Day 7 - <_<

Tuesday, June 27th, 2006

Just finished Day 7 of my Microsoft work placement, which is sadly drawing closer to it’s end. Even though today was not terribly exciting, we installed SQL Server 2005 onto the big bastard server (read my previous post) and then proceeded to install Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2005, which sounds innocent enough. However, Visual […]