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I recently caught up with the great Kate Gregory, C++ MVP, Microsoft Regional Director, and all around excellent developer. Kate and several other MVPs from around the world were on the MS campus to take part in MVP Summit 2011. You will meet other C++ MVPs on C9 over…

Meet Test Lead, and author, Dona Sarkar.  She hails from a family of engineers, and she’s one too, but she also writes fiction books for teenage girls.  Wow!  We could tell you more about her story, or you could just watch Dona tell it as she chronicles her career and the…

What do you do after an evening at a Girly Geek dinner? Well, you head back to the hotel lobby and geek out, of course. Join Catherine Heller, Technical Evangelist and one of Microsoft's smartest people, Kate Gregory, C++ Guru and Regional Director, and Cyra Richardson, IE Program…

Welcome to the Show # 10 of The Voice of Support! This week, we sat down with Doug Park, Senior Group Manager for Xbox Support. Doug manages a number of program managers that handle various "lines of business" for Xbox hardware and software support around the globe, which we…

Welcome to the ninth installment of The Voice of Support! This week, we sat down with Steve Miles, Retail Support Manager here at Microsoft, to discuss supporting those Xbox and Xbox 360 kiosks you see in various retail stores across the world, and some of the really cool features and new…

Dr. Wayne Kelly is a Senior Lecturer at Queensland University of Technology. He also owns and maintains the Ruby.NET project at QUT. Nick Hodge managed to score some of Wayne’s time and interview him on Ruby, Ruby.NET, and the current state of the project.

Meet Soni Meinke, a senior program manager in the Windows Server group.  From Fargo to Redmond, Soni talks about her successful yet non-technical path in the world of high-tech, and illustrates the point on how it takes all types.  With a newspaper and communications background, Soni now…

I first learned about Clint Rutkas when I read a Coding4Fun article in which he described what it took to build a C#-driven disco floor for his apartment (Clint has since become the Coding4Fun blog home page author - congrats on that). I figured I'd meet him at a conference…

While at TechEd 2006, I caught up with some of the folks who are innovating Community principles and implementation in the UK, from Girly Geek to Next Generation User Group. Here we talk about community, why it matters, what is needed to grow community, etc. The interviewees are also Niners.…

In this episode Allan Stratton, Nuance Communications Director of OEM Integration chats with us about Nuance’s imaging and speech recognition solutions. Here, Allan discusses the development & prototyping processes of speech and scanning applications utilizing VS 2005,WPF, SDKs…