Archive for June, 2006

Blogging from Microsoft: Day 6 – Dual Core

Monday, June 26th, 2006

Huzzah! Just finished day 6 of my Microsoft placement. Things have started to become a bit more exciting. Finally we’ve finished as much work as we can do on the eCommerce site: our supervisor is away for a few days, and we’ve done pretty much all we can do, so now we have moved on. [...]

Blogging from Microsoft: Day 5 – Bleh

Friday, June 23rd, 2006

Hmm, well I nearly forgot to blog tonight. Heh, I just got so tangled up with reading Digg and other various tech news sites that I lost track of the things I need to do
Anyway, today at Microsoft was pretty standard, spent the day working on this eCommerce demo app, it’s coming together [...]

Blogging from Microsoft: Day 4 – Some progress

Thursday, June 22nd, 2006

Hello there again, I’m back with news from another day of working at Microsoft!
Well, actually, there isn’t really much news as not terribly much happened today. Come to think of it, a lot happened. I managed to fix up a piece of code that was really screwing me … it seemed like the custom SiteMapProvider [...]

Blogging from Microsoft: Day 3 – Hmm, work

Wednesday, June 21st, 2006

Here I am in the lobby of the motel, connected to the net with this long ethernet cable. I’ve just finished my third day at Microsoft. It wasn’t quite as exciting as the last two days have been, but still pretty good. I’m still working on integrating this site with Commerce Server. Commerce Server looks [...]