As Don said, the first CTP of the Managed Extensibility Framework is available. We use this code a bunch on my team and are building lots of stuff on top of it. It's great. Simple extensibility. I hope that it only gets simpler as we get feedback from customers.

Please, be sure to share with the team what they can cut to make it even simpler! :)

Some ignorant TV producers decided to have a "Best Mom" competition where they commited a major faux pas. They classified mothers of adopted children as a "Non-Mom".

It is amazing to me that in this day and age that anyone would be so blatantly insulting. As someone who has been going down the path to adopt, I must say that this is the first major incident I have encountered where I felt so much in a minority.

I generally don't participate in letter writing campaigns or anything like this, but I feel compelled to at least send an email to this company and let them know that this is not acceptable.

I'm not asking anyone else to participate in this, but if you are looking for contact information, here it is:

AFM TV LLC. 11444
West Olympic blvd, 10th Floor
Los Angeles, CA 90064

info@americasfavoritemom.com

800-225-7435

And, for those of you that want to see the original post:

This is insulting in everyway

Doug wrote up posts about a bunch of our new jobs - both in the languages space and our text editor project. Of course, he neglected to mention a bunch of our UX projects, but that may be because we don't have an external link yet.

The key thing; if you want to work on incredibly cool technology with a great team (I'm just happy they keep me around) you should think about coming on board.

Blog software is broken (permalinks don't work anymore, etc.)

I'm months behind posting the source code for my book

Sorry.

My team is growing again... this time we are looking for people to work on a new tool. Want to come help?

In keeping with tradition, another really bad job of singing.

Pretty cool, the Microsoft Company Store has started stocking 3rd party books, which fortunately includes my book. Wahoo!

So, if you are a Microsoft employee, swing on by the co-store and pickup a copy today (or two)!

I've posted the Chapter 1 code samples. I'll also get this posted up to the "official" site soon.