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More Frequent TechNet Home Page Updates
11 March 09 01:32 PM | chriskil | 0 Comments   

Regular visitors to the TechNet home page might have noticed that we've been making more changes around the content we feature. Previously, we were featuring a variety of blogs at the top of the page, but we realized that the chance of a blog post intersecting Read More...

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Fifteen Years of Port 80
04 March 09 09:25 AM | chriskil | 0 Comments   

In a few months, it will have been fifteen years since I set up my first web server on a spare Mac II at www.hsas.washington.edu using Mac httpd . (You can check Netcraft to see what it's running today.) The genesis of that box was frustration. Frustration Read More...

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Blue Skies
19 February 09 08:59 AM | chriskil | 1 Comments   

The Seattle area is notorious for its darkness during the winter due to the combination of latitude and weather. (A little-known fact is that Seattle is farther north than the majority of the Canadian population - check the map !) Contrary to popular Read More...

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Knowledge Base articles move to TechNet and MSDN
16 February 09 12:44 PM | chriskil | 8 Comments   

Microsoft is moving its Developer & IT Professional primary support content (also known as Knowledge Base – or KB - articles) from http://support.microsoft.com Web site to MSDN and TechNet, respectively. This move is to ensure that Developers and Read More...

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TechNet Home Page Changes and Smaller Web Sites
21 January 09 05:31 PM | chriskil | 0 Comments   

One of the things I love about the web is the fact that it is in constant motion and that we're all still making it up as we go along. Here at Microsoft, change is constant, and my team has been doing some great work recently around slimming down our Read More...

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When coax ruled the world (or, your humble author enters the scene)
27 May 08 10:40 AM | chriskil | 0 Comments   

I used to work at the Univeristy of Washington (UW) for a guy named Stan who was a home brewing and bungee jumping nut . He also was pretty darn good at TCP/IP networking. When Stan wasn't busy slurping on his ramen noodles, (they were inexpensive and Read More...

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