Me: I live in Silicon Valley with my wife, child and cat. I have worked at Microsoft since I graduated from College, both in the Macintosh Business Unit on products such as Outlook Express, Entourage, IE, and Virtual PC and in Windows Live on Hotmail, Calendar and People. I am currently a Principal Lead Program Manager on the Windows Live Social Networking team. I basically manage a team of Program Managers responsible for delivering features to support our web and client applications. I've been blogging since 2001 and like to play around with .NET in my spare time working on projects such as dasBlog (the blog that powers this site) and Send to SmugMug (an application for uploading photos to SmugMug). I blog about a number of technology and productivity related topics.
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I've been a bit pre-occupied lately (t-minus 2 days till baby due date) but I need to shout out to the Brad, Frank and Deva at ClearContext for their v3 release.
I've been using v3 when they were first ready to let some folks get their hands dirty. These guys are really dedicated to making this a showcase for Outlook. They had Outlook 2007 Ribbon support within a few weeks of the Schema for the Ribbon being unveiled, and they fixed some Vista stability bugs early on. Basically, they were able to keep the product usable and stable for two moving targets while adding a ton of great new features to ClearContext. Most importantly they kept me pretty darned happy this entire time. I was even able to abandon my own ThreadKiller add-in because their is simply less buggy than mine .
Anyway, congrats guys! I'm looking forward to v4!