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AKipman's MSBuild bloghiyaaaaa.... the ninja perspectivehttp://blogs.msdn.com/b/akipman/atom.aspxTelligent Evolution Platform Developer Build (Build: 5.6.50428.7875)2004-06-04T18:30:00ZImpact of moving MSBuild out of the .NET redisthttp://blogs.msdn.com/b/akipman/archive/2004/10/05/238345.aspx2004-10-06T00:24:00Z2004-10-06T00:24:00Z
Currently there is a proposal on the table to move MSBuild out of the .NET redistributable and ship it instead as part of a lightweight developer tools redist (subset of the .NET SDK). This would mean that your dependency on MSBuild has the requirement of installing an additional redistributable before MSBuild can run.

Before we make any decisions of this magnitude, we need to better understand how this decision would impact you and your decision to adopt MSBuild. We would like to assess a few things:

What key requirements would a tools redist have to meet in order to be viable for your needs, e.g. how small, distribution channels, available to repackage/refactor for your needs, etc.?
Assuming a redist met the requirements, there would be an additional redist step in your distribution story. Does that threaten or completely break any of your key scenarios or value propositions? Which ones?
What kinds of innovations do you expect in future versions of MSBuild? Are you willing to accept a dependency on a future refresh of the redist in order to utilize those innovations?

I would love to hear your feedback! If e-mail is not a convenient medium to give us that feedback, let me know and I'll gladly schedule a quick 1:1 phone meeting.

Thanks,
Alex Kipman (firstname.lastname@example.com)

Alex Kipmanhttp://blogs.msdn.com/AKipman/ProfileUrlRedirect.ashxre: MSBuild Team Posts Status Publicly http://blogs.msdn.com/b/akipman/archive/2004/06/19/160088.aspx2004-06-19T17:25:00Z2004-06-19T17:25:00Z
Yesterday Josh blogged about the MSBuild status which I posted earlier this week. His blog entry generated an interesting conversation which I felt I should comment on (hence this blog entry). The basic pushback was:

Status of internal projects may represent competitive information, may have legal consequences to contracts, expose security bugs before the fixes are deployed, and may represent excessive transparency. I work on something inside MSFT that would sink existing product lines. Should i post our build status information? <absolutely not>
Next they'll want us to start publishing checkin mail?

Interestingly enough I have heard this pushback three distinct times this week, and with exception of the above none were related to my little blog. The first time was when I read next week's business week article titled "Blogging with the Boss's Blessing" which dives straight into this issue. I read the article because it features Sara Ford (who works a few doors down from me), and because we are all very proud of her :). The second time was in an unrelated meeting I was having with Lutz, Rob and company. There we were basically discussing how it only takes one irresponsible employee one blog entry to undo years of messaging and position from marketing.

All three conversations boil down to the same question: "when is transparency detrimental to a company"!

In my utopical world, I think the answer is very simply *NEVER*; as long as people use their common sense. People *should not* blog about things that they don't own. For example, I shouldn't sit here blogging about the cool demo I got of XYZ yesterday, even though it was the coolest thing I've ever seen, since I don't know how much of XYZ is public yet, I mean I have an idea and I think it is public... but I just don't know for sure. People *should not* just copy and paste internal things into the blog. For example, I shouldn't just copy and paste my status as is externally (and btw I haven't). Ultimately as Scoble says:

Before posting an entry in his personal weblog, Robert Scoble always pauses and considers how he would justify its contents to three people: his boss, his wife and Steve Ballmer.

Again just use common sense folks, and blogging is a win win win proposition. I won't be blogging about the status of converting the Windows Kernel to an MSBuild task. I won't be blogging about the status of adding the hyperspace feature to the MSBuild engine. I won't be blogging about things that don't make sense to be blogged about.

Lastly *I think we should be posting check-in mails* and I will be doing so in the future. I already do so internally every time we post an LKG (last known good) to our internal partners, and I will be posting the same list externally when we ship the beta of Whidbey. I think this is the single most valuable information a developer can have when he/she are trying to figure out what the delta is since the last technology preview, alpha etc. What has changed? What are the breaking changes? What are the new features I should be pounding on? I strongly recommend this to any feature team, as this is one piece of information our customers have to *discover* by trial and error, and this would give them a clear roadmap of a) what to look forward to, b) what to play with first and c) prepare them for what will break since the last time we did this.

And now I'm late for going to work (Ori is going to kill me)... since I woke up to just read a bit and ended up blogging (damn this thing is addictive). Cheers everyone... and happy blogging

Alex Kipmanhttp://blogs.msdn.com/AKipman/ProfileUrlRedirect.ashxTechEd Europe here we come!!! T minus 10 dayshttp://blogs.msdn.com/b/akipman/archive/2004/06/17/158803.aspx2004-06-18T01:03:00Z2004-06-18T01:03:00Z
I can't wait... are you packed yet? For those that are going to be there, there will be cool MSBuild activities for you. The roster includes two Hands on Labs and one breakout session. They are:

DEV356 Visual Studio 2005 : Managing the Enterprise Build Process with MSBuild
Thu, Jul 1 14:45 - 16:00 Room: TBD
Alex Kipman
Learn how the Visual Studio 2005 release of Visual Studio will radically improve the area of software development by introducing a new build engine called MSBuild. Key design goals for MSBuild include: delivering a file format that is well-documented and backed up by a published XML schema definition; making the MSBuild engine an integral part of the .NET Framework redistributable; allowing developers to customize, augment, or completely redefine the build process; and providing seamless integration with the Visual Studio 2005 IDE.

DEVL56 MSBuild, The New Build System for Visual Studio 2005 and Longhorn
Mon-Fri, Jul 1 08:30 - 19:30 Room: TBD
Get an introduction to MSBuild, the new build system for Visual Studio 2005 and .NET development. MSBuild is a component included as part of the .NET Framework and has no dependencies on Visual Studio. See how it is fully functional on a machine that doesn't have Visual Studio installed. Learn how MSBuild's project file format is XML-based, and includes concepts like properties, items, targets, and tasks. Get details about the file format are included in the Appendix.

DEVL21 Version Control and Team Development with Visual Studio .NET and Visual SourceSafe
Mon-Fri, Jul 1 08:30 - 19:30 Room: TBD
This lab focuses on Visual SourceSafe, Visual Studio .NET, and MSBuild -- the next generation build engine that delivers flexibility for the entire range of build scenarios, from single-user basics to complex build-lab scenarios. See how Visual SourceSafe 2005 and the new universal build engine, MSBuild, provide an unprecedented level of support for the build process and source control.

I also get the chance to hook up with folks whom I've corresponded with in the past... I'm really exited about that! I would also love to meet other people who are interested, curious or passionate about <InsertGooseBumps>*build*</InsertGooseBumps>. If you are going to TechEd, want to talk build, don't be shy to send me e-mail and we'll set it up!

See you in Amsterdam!

Alex Kipmanhttp://blogs.msdn.com/AKipman/ProfileUrlRedirect.ashx001 - MSBuild status http://blogs.msdn.com/b/akipman/archive/2004/06/14/155773.aspx2004-06-15T05:17:00Z2004-06-15T05:17:00Z
Status... status and more status. This is something new I'm trying, and I'd love to hear your feedback on the process. As most people at Microsoft (heck probably anywhere), I have to send weekly status internally to my peers, the big cahunas and other interested parties. My status covers MSBuild, and pretty much reports a pulse for the entire feature area. What's Dev up to... what's QA up to... is the PM *still* slacking off (<-- don't answer that). So if internal folks are generally interested in it... perhaps *you* are interested in it as well.

So the question for you is: Well are ya interested in it?

I will attempt to post these on a regular basis, and through it, you can know what's up in MSBuild land. Again we'll tweak the frequency and granularity of these as we go. The more feedback you give... the better I'll be able to optimize this experience for you... Onto status then:

Internal Stuff

MSBuild has finalized plans to speak at the Microsoft Global Briefing (MGB) this year:

MSBuild will host 1 out of the 4 Instructor Led Hands on labs at MGB this year
MSBuild will host 1 breakout session at MGB this year

MSBuild checked in a few high profile fixes into Longhorn which were blocking the Avalon team
<Insert XBox studio name here> is now building XBox, XBox 2 and Windows games from a single MSBuild project file. In their own words "I'm hoping the XBox Advanced Technology Group will get interested in MSBuild and offer tasks in addition to the VS integration they offer now"
New MSBuild last known good (LKG) was cut and released to our internal dogfooders
Internal wiki FAQ site has been created to better support our internal dogfooders.
Internal wiki site has been created to better track Longhorn / MSBuild long term issues

External Stuff

Jeff (email@example.com) has started blogging about MSBuild. His blog is located at http://blogs.msdn.com/jeffcal
Alex (firstname.lastname@example.com) has started blogging about MSBuild. His blog is located at (ahem... you are on it :) )
Christophe Nazarre's "Overview of MSBuild, Part 2: From the Task Author's Perspective" was posted to MSDN
MSBuild made the front page of http://msdn.microsoft.com/longhorn with Christophe Nazarre's second article
MSBuild had a good presence at TechEd in San Diego. Final trip report can be found here
Stefan Bodewig had another great blog entry. Full blog entry can be found here
We spoke with <insert large ISV name here> about integrating MSBuild in their overall build lifecycle. In the words of the person who organized the meeting "You guys blew <insert ISV name here> away, and they are very excited about the capabilities of MSBuild"
MSBuild made an appearance at the VSIP dev lab and we gave them a quick overview of MSBuild. 4 distinct customer who shall remain nameless have engaged with us after the DevLab and we are currently talking with them about using MSBuild in their environments

Beta 1 Progress

MSBuild docs were reviewed and are ready for Beta 1
596 out of 596 MSBuild nighlies1 are passing at 100%.
70 out of 70 MSBuild OGFs2 have been issued as "Meets Expectations" for beta 1
10 out of 10 MSBuild handshakes3 have been issued as "Meets Expectations" for beta 1

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Beta 2 Progress

The following Beta 2 design change requests (DCRs) have gone through VSCore management approval and are now on our list:

Improve whitespace preservation in MSBuild project files
Allow OutputPath / OutDir / IntermediaryOutputPath properties to support both full-path as well as relative or UNC paths
Fully support project to project (P2P) references that have manifests associated with them. This is required for RegFree COM support in ClickOnce applications
Expose functionality that allows Visual Studio flavored4 projects to execute any arbitrary target within MSBuild

Our new intern, Jeff Vaughan (firstname.lastname@example.com), started working on MSBuild. He'll be with us until the end of August. WELCOME Jeff!

Performance

MSBuild perf scenarios are ready to run as Pri1 performance tests in the pef lab. Our current P1 scenarios consist of:

Small - Individual / Small feature team (eg MSBuild itself with ~10 leaf node projects)
Medium - Entire feature team (eg Visual Studio solution and project systems ~50 leaf node projects)
Large - Entire product unit (eg Visual Basic ~500 leaf nodes)
X-Large - Entire division at Microsoft (eg All of Visual Studio ~4500 leaf nodes)

Work has started to integrate MSTV Server (~75 leaf projects) as one of our performance scenarios. Based on this work we've been able to:

Isolate performance issues around our Resolve Assembly Reference (RAR) task.
Improved overall load time by 10% (5 seconds).

Recent perf numbers on MSBuild compared to Build.exe / nmake:

Build.exe / nmake5 building the MSBuild tree (1 CPU) - 55.25 seconds
MSBuild.exe building the MSBuild tree (1 CPU) - 36.60 seconds!!

MSBuild peak size reduced from 55 megs to 15 megs. Total allocations (ie GC pressure) went from 280 megs to 170 megs. This ginormous improvement is mostly due to:

MSBuild now cache's imported project xml to prevent re-parsing
MSBuild now uses case insensitive hash keys to prevent storing upper case copy of all MSBuild property and item keys

So that concludes the status... you are now UP TO DATE <-- in msbuild speak that means you will be skipped next time we build you :) (ok dorky joke but I couldn't resist)

Useful? More of it? Less of it? Inquiring minds want to know :)

1 Nightlies - we have ~2100 distinct automated tests for MSBuild. Some more important than others. Nightlies are some of the most fundamental tests we run. As their name implies we run these on a daily (ahem nightly) basis and they are meant to test critical customer scenarios. Breaking or regressing a nightly is really bad. Nightlies are a great indicator of our overall product stability.
2 OGFs - Overall Good Feeling or Overall Goodness Factor (I can never remember). A few times per milestone our awesome QA organization tests end-to-end scenarios (both manually as well as automated). Based on the end-to-end experience they issue an OGF for the scenario. The collection of these OGFs isused as an indicator of our overall product quality. Example of an OGF for MSBuild would be "Logger Initialization and Shutdown"
3 Handshakes - A collection of cohesive OGFs bubbles up into a Handshake. If all OGFs within a handshake pass then a passing handshake is issued. If at least one OGF does not meet expectations the entire Handshake fails. An example of an MSBuild handshake would be "MSBuild Logging Handshake" which would contain all MSBuild OGFs.
4 Flavored Project - these are project that build ontop of our core VB/C#/J# project systems and tend to optimize for a given technology. Examples of these "flavored" projects are the Smart Devices, VSTO or Yukon projects.
5 Note - This is build.exe as we run it internally within our build labs. Number may vary if you hand author your makefiles from scratch.

_*_*_*_ Update: Swapped the 4th and 5th footnotes. Thanks goes to David Cumps for pointing that out. _*_*_*_
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Alex Kipmanhttp://blogs.msdn.com/AKipman/ProfileUrlRedirect.ashxTechEd 2004 trip report: We went... we saw... we conquered http://blogs.msdn.com/b/akipman/archive/2004/06/07/150590.aspx2004-06-08T04:29:00Z2004-06-08T04:29:00Z
Just kidding about the conquered part… but I figured this would get the blog read :-p.

Internally within Microsoft we usually send out these trip reports after we go to conferences (as I'm sure do most other corporations). Instead of writing the internal trip report and then eventually blogging about it (in a dehydrated form)… I decided to just blog about the trip and then point all the internal peeps to it. Basically my internal trip report mail will say: TechEd Trip report… read <insertBlogEntryLinkHere> for more details. So my apology if this is too lengthy for a blog post… I'm still adjusting. Any feedback is as always welcome…

TechEd 2004 Trip Report

Dan (firstname.lastname@example.com) and I went down to sunny San Diego on Sunday night. Unlike PDC 2003 the trip down to the conference was uneventful and aside from the fact that it wasn't at all sunny (as a matter of fact even rainy Seattle was sunnier), the trip was fantastic. Our mission during the week was simple:

Host an MSBuild Cabana session on Monday: DevC26
Host an MSBuild Breakout session on Friday: Dev356
Monitor the MSBuild HOL throughout the week: HolDev356
Interact with as many customers / partners as we could during the rest of our time there
And if time allowed… convince all attendees that the OS kernel should really be written as an MSBuild task :-p

Host an MSBuild Cabana session on Monday: DevC26

Dan and I started by asking how many people had heard about, or used MSBuild in the past. Answer: 0 people

With that in mind we improv'ed MSBuild 101... what we are about, why we exist and why we think MSBuild will rock!! We advertised the Hands on Lab, our Friday breakout session and of course firstname.lastname@example.com. There were about 40 people there, so this was interactive and we tried to field questions as we went. We went from there straight into ad hoc… question driven demo's:

We went through the process of creating a simple project file from scratch and explained the key concepts as he went through it.
After that we took it from the other direction. What happens when you start from VS and want to extend it? We started from File-->new project… talked about our target files, wrote a simple task, registered it with MSBuild and *boom* you have fundamentally altered the Visual Studio build process
A lot of Q&A later, even stepping into a logger to show how easy things are to debug the session was over. It was supposed to be a 1 hour cabana session and it turned out to be a 1:45 cabana session. We were the last ones of the day so people just hung around asking more questions. This was an absolute fantastic experience!

A few customer stories:

A developer was sitting in the front seat and being very interactive. At the end they told us that they had written thousands of lines of code to do what we showed in just a few. I couldn't resist at this point and I said "well the theme of TechEd is *do more with less* muahahaha :)". Anyways they had some questions, which Dan and I answered. Why am I telling you this? Well they left still a bit incredulous, and went to try our Hands on labs. A few minutes later they come back and said "it works, it really really works" quickly followed by "Why haven't you shipped this two years ago, and does it support Visual Studio 2003" :-).
"I went to the Cabana Session last night and it was fantastic. I am going to see if I can do that hands on lab soon."
http://www.theserverside.net/news/thread.tss?thread_id=26153

Host an MSBuild Breakout session on Friday: Dev356

JoeN talked about his breakout session here. I love that format and will be doing the same thing for the MSBuild breakout session. Stay tuned.

Without detailing the session itself post will contain all that, here is what *you* thought about it:

Overall score: 7.46 / 9.00
Evals submitted: 30
Comments (in no particular order):

Technology overdrive - http://www.thespoke.net/MyBlog/Fai/MyBlog.aspx?entryid=21334
A little too much of a dog and pony show, I would have liked to learn more about the capabilities of MS build than doing several examples based on the same technology. The simple example would have been good enough, I felt you showed the smart phone for the sake of showing the smart phone..
After spending 35 minutes in this session I still don't have a clue on what this is all about. Instead of just hacking the configuration files of the MSBuild System, the key components of the system should be explaine
Did not care that you could type in the demo -- I think it was more important to show how easly and the very limited amount of code that was needed to do so
Don't worry about the missed demo. We (at least I) understand about how pre-beta code works
I liked your Win / ASP schema with pros and cons
It might pay to slow down a bit. Speed and broad coverage seemed less effective in this presentation
kudos on that build process went wrong but it sends out a SMS. cool
More about MSBuild in future conferences please
no one wants to watch people type xml.
You guys rocked! Very informative. I wish you were earlier in the week

There is clearly a ton of room for improvement, and based on this feedback some pretty major changes will happen before TechEd Europe. For those of you that filled surveys and left us your comments… THANK YOU. We appreciate the feedback and will do what we can to improve the MSBuild breakout session from it. Current set of changes we have in mind:

Bring back architecture slide(s) that position MSBuild within the FX stack and Visual Studio
Kill the demo1: file format in depth
Rework demo's 2 and 3 into cohesive story with a beginning, middle and end, rather than completely decoupled demo's
Talk about demo's 2 and 3 in more detail now that demo 1 has been cut
Do a better job at showing how this affects *my* team - show integration with the Visual Studio Team System: a rolling build server interfacing with Team System source control, work item tracking, unit testing, and so on.
S L O W D O W N

If you were there and have additional feedback… well you should have filled out an eval :-) j/k. Please send any additional feedback to: email@example.com

Monitor the MSBuild HOL through the week: HolDev356

We did not have a chance to monitor this as much as we would have liked. From the information we were able to get this was a pretty good lab. Overall we scored high, comments were positive and people seemed happy with it. From my perspective we hit a home run with the HOL, and I certainly plan on re-using it pretty much as is in future conferences. If you have any feedback on our HOL… send feedback to: email@example.com. We will work to incorporate that feedback by a conference near you.

Interact with as many customers / partners as we could during the rest of our time there

Mangia, mangia with customers (Monday) – Dan sat with several customers from an ISV, some developers, and one IT person responsible for the build process and configuration management (names removed to protect the innocent :-)). Conversation centered on how painful it was to a) integrate build with source control, b) diagnose builds, and most of all to c) replicate a build when (not if) it needed to be reproduced later. Right now those customers mostly use batch files and ad-hoc scripts. Dan described how MSBuild could help them: a) download community-developed tasks to integrate with SourceSafe, b) use loggers to audit the build process, and c) use the Team System "big build in a box" to help reproduce builds. The customers were very excited and demonstrated interest to play with MSBuild. Lunch was left with email@example.com as *the* email to be used if any of them wanted to share feedback (good, bad or indifferent)!
Dinner with the To's (Monday) – What a delightful part of my TechEd experience. Chris To was my intern last summer, and during that tour of duty he worked/owned many cool features of Whidbey including MSBuild VS Integration, Class View, Caller Callee and the Code Definition Window. He happens to be from near San Diego, so I had the pleasure to meet the parents :-). We had a lot to celebrate and catch up on!! After having been a really cool, top notch intern, Chris went back to school and on the side just that morning won 1st place in the imagine cup tournament. Now he gets to go to Brazil to represent the North America and I'm sure win the world-wide competition there (official press release can be found here). Dinner was a blast, and getting a chance to share that evening with Chris and his parents was both an honor and delight. Couldn't be more proud of you Chris… and I'm sure you and your team will do wonders in Brazil later this month!
Meeting with Karin Becker (Tuesday) – This was our first experience with the "Rio" system. Karin works with Visual Studio Magazine and wanted to talk to us about upcoming publications of VS Magazine and how MSBuild could play a role in it. This meeting was definitely informative, and both Dan and I learnt a thing or two about how Articles are published etc.
Dinner with John Lam (Tuesday) – Again a very delightful dinner. I had interacted with John at length before TechEd. John published our first external white paper on MSBuild and has generally been a great supporter / enthusiast. With this said, I had never met John face to face. We aimed to rectify that at TechEd… and the mission methinks was very much accomplished (you can read John's perspective of dinner here). Dinner consisted of chatting about an assorted selection of technologies, and overall we just had a wonderful time. I must say it is sooo much better to meet friends face to face.
Mangia, mangia with customers (Wednesday) – Dan sat with several customers and chatted about the Team System announcement. He answered loads of questions and talked about the fact that many of the tools were widely used internally, thus providing good scalable, proven and stable bits to start with. He said and I quote "I'm not just promoting it; I use many of these tools myself (really!)". The customers left energized and were now looking forward to going into Rick LaPlante's session later that afternoon to find out more details.
Meeting with Stephen Slocum (Thursday) – This was our second experience with the "Rio" system. Doug Neumann, friend from Team System, hooked us up. Stephen had come to our Cabana session and we had a fantastic conversation. We talked about targeting VS 2003 with MSBuild, more details about our C++ support, as well as generally picking his brain about his current build process etc. Learnt how he uses BuildIt.Net, we talked about his pains there and migration path to MSBuild. That conversation alone and the lessons learned are enough for me to generate many blog entries (which overtime I will :-)). *Stephen* if you are reading this… let us (email@example.com) know how your research with MSBuild is going. We'd love to hear more and interact with you and your team as you go through that process.

Closing thoughts / qualms about infrastructure stuff

Rio – Dan and I thought this was a great idea, but overall not well implemented. We would have loved nothing more than back to back Rio meetings for the entire event. Unfortunately if you walked by the Rio room it was mostly empty. We don't know what went wrong, but either customers didn't know about Rio, or it wasn't approachable to them. Personally we think that it was a combination of both. I'm a customer from organization X and I want to speak with build experts. I don't know who they are, I don't know the trendy name for their technology, I just know that they must be around somewhere. I should be able to just place a request to speak about Build… and Commnet should do the rest. TechEd's implementation had an attendee requesting a meeting with person X from Microsoft. Now let's face it… how many attendees knew that a) Dan and I know anything about build, b) that MSBuild is anywhere related to what they are looking for and c) that we actually shower regularly and indeed would *love* nothing more than talk to customers at TechEd? I'd wager 2 people knew that… and one of them works with us at Microsoft :-). What's your feedback on it? Not that we have any control over it but we would certainly forward the feedback if you have any :-)! We would have loved to have had a chance to hear 1:1 from more people solving build problems in the real world, as it was our schedule wasn't as full as it could have been.
Cabana Sessions – Dan and I loved the Cabana session. It was great to interact with customers and do more of a Q&A session and some live demo's to spice things up. I think the attendees also enjoyed this. The general constructive feedback from everyone (and we +2 that feedback) was: 1) it was really hard to hear since there was a ton of ambient noise and 2) it was really hard to see the plasma TVs due to lighting situation of that large room (too bright). I won't rehash that feedback here, but we will say +2 to that. Great idea… lets just improve sound and video and this has the potential to be just great!

Wow, a bit larger than I had originally intended. If you got this far... many thanks for putting up with me. If you didn't... sorry about the long post.

Alex Kipmanhttp://blogs.msdn.com/AKipman/ProfileUrlRedirect.ashxWhat I plan to blog abouthttp://blogs.msdn.com/b/akipman/archive/2004/06/05/149285.aspx2004-06-05T18:36:00Z2004-06-05T18:36:00Z
I want to take a bit of time up front to set expectations of what I plan on posting in the future. I wanted to give a short explanation about the different categories I created.

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Ultimately this blog is for *you*. In that spirit I would love to hear back from *you* about the things I plan to blog about. Do you find these categories interesting, useful? Am I missing specific categories you'd like to see me blog about?

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Categories I plan to blog about:

Conferences – MSBuild goes to a lot of conferences. We spend a lot of time preparing for it, we have a ball while at the conference, and we have post mortems after the conferences. This category is aimed at sharing all of the above with *you*.

Fluff – This blog is about Whidbey and MSBuild. Anything that doesn't fit either of those categories goes into fluff. My goal is to keep this category down to very few posts (even though it is 100% of the posts for now :()

MSBuild Automated – Over time I plan on having some statistical posts being made automatically on a given frequency. Examples of posts in this category would be things like "how many projects within Microsoft build with MSBuild". Basically I would create a logger that at the end of build posts build statistics to a database. I would then create a little daemon that on a given interval (say weekly) would poll the database and auto-post a blog entry with that information about projects within Microsoft that build with MSBuild. Such posts will go under this category, so that you can easily filter them out if they are non-interesting to you.

MSBuild Engine – Any post that talks about the semantic model of MSBuild will go under this category. MSBuild object model issues and hosting of the MSBuild Engine will also go under this category

MSBuild FAQ – There are certain questions I get asked over and over again. So much so that I have pretty canned answers for them already. I plan on posting such questions *and* answers under this category

MSBuild File Format – Any posts that talk about the authoring of an MSBuild project will go under this category.

MSBuild Loggers – Any posts that talk about the authoring of an MSBuild logger, or anything that has to do with Events being passed through MSBuild will go under this category.

MSBuild Status – Internally I send weekly status of MSBuild to the powers that be. That status discusses things such as "what is the MSBuild team working on at the moment" and "what is the MSBuild team planning on working in the near future" etc. I figure if this information is useful internally within Microsoft, it would also be useful externally to anyone interested in reading them. I plan on posting said statuses to this blog category.

MSBuild Tasks – Any posts that talk about the authoring of an MSBuild task, or anything that has to do with tasks, tasks registration, tasks consumption, tasks sharing etc will go under this category.

MSBuild Visual Studio Integration – Any posts that talk about Visual Studio and how it integrates with MSBuild will go under this category

Whidbey General – Any posts that are not MSBuild related, but that are talking about some cool technology in the Whidbey stack will go under this category.

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Alex Kipmanhttp://blogs.msdn.com/AKipman/ProfileUrlRedirect.ashxAnd so it begins!http://blogs.msdn.com/b/akipman/archive/2004/06/04/148951.aspx2004-06-05T04:30:00Z2004-06-05T04:30:00Z
Welcome everyone! Thank you so very much for taking time out of your busy schedules and gracing me with your presence! I'm honored, I truly am. I'm having flash backs to my senior year in high school when I walked into a new school, in a new country, barely speaking the native language. So many people around who are just soooooo much cooler than me. Will I fit in? Will people want to read my blog? Will they just write me off as another weirdo? Will the cutie in my first period English class want to marry me

Anyways… I hope the contents of this blog are semi-useful and that every now and then I can provide you with some new learning experiences. If I'm real lucky I'll provoke some thought and stir some controversy on rare occasions. If nothing else I can promise you some Kipmanisms1 which I am told are extremely funny.

I am genuinely thrilled, psyched and out of my shell proud about Whidbey, our new technology stack and of course I am beyond proud and excited about MSBuild. I think Whidbey will be a fantastic release and if you haven't played with it yet… well what are you waiting for!?

I must tell you, the first post of a blog is very hard. I've been stewing over this blog post since last Thursday when John, Stefan and <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" /><st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Chad</st1:place></st1:country-region> started peer pressuring me to blog :). Well gents, it worked, and here I am blogging for the first time. John has been very supportive and kind through this, and I must thank him BIG time for helping me work up the courage to start this blog. John as I've told you in person: YOU ROCK!

What to say, how to best introduce myself to the world at large? Who am I and where do I fit in the world of Microsoft? Well my name is Alex Kipman and I was born in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Brazil</st1:place></st1:country-region> circa a quarter of a century ago. I'm unabashedly proud of having the opportunity to work at Microsoft and have been doing this for almost three years now (my anniversary is coming up soon). And yes if you must know Bill Gates *is* my hero!

I have been fascinated by computer since my early years when I first fell in love with an Atari 2600 (note: my current mistress is an Xbox… and my live alias is ZEUS!). I'm a strong believer in multiplier effects and have always preferred to affect the few that will in turn affect the masses. For this reason it's no wonder I gravitated to the developer division at Microsoft. Here I can fulfill my dreams and work on my dream job, where day to day I help the smartest people on the planet enable developers worldwide to reach their full potential. My thinking is simple; if we enable developers to imagine, and aid them in the creation of fantastic new computer experiences, I get a multiplier effect where I've helped the few affect the masses.

I've spent my entire life at Microsoft as a Program Manager in the Visual Studio Core Team. I've been working on MSBuild for the past 2 years. Before Microsoft I worked as a consultant for a French based consulting firm and attended Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) where I received a degree in software engineering.

So that's a little bit about me, where I fit in the world and what I'm passionate about. Hopefully I haven't bored you yet, and stay tuned as the next few post I intend to make technical as opposed to fluff :-)

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1 – Kipmanisms – Word created by Sumedh Kanetkar (firstname.lastname@example.com), one of our super star MSBuild devs. It basically denotes weird sentences or words that I say and write. I usually don't notice I've done it until the entire room starts laughing. Examples of Kipmanisms range from "Death by a thousand paper clips" to "How about those damn apples"

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I have a wireless device named wlan0, and, after editing /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-wlan0 I use ifup wlan0 to start wireless networking.
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- 1 lb bacon, cooked and crumbled
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Prep 5 mins
Cook 5 mins
This is another clipped recipe, originally from Epicurious. Serves 2 but can easily be doubled.
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- 1 cup butter
- 2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
- 2 1⁄2 tablespoons Worcestershire sauce
- 2 garlic cloves, minced
- 1 teaspoon white sugar
- 1 teaspoon lime peel, grated
- 1 pinch cayenne or 1 pinch pepper, to taste
- 10 large uncooked shrimp, in shells
- 2 tablespoons parsley, chopped fresh or 2 tablespoons dried parsley
- Melt butter in a medium-heave skillet over medium heat.
- Mix in the next six ingredients.
- Sauté for 30 seconds and add shrimp.
- Sauté shrimp until they are opaque in centre, about 3 minutes, turning occasionally.
- Stir in parsley and serve over rice or pasta.
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I love the flavors of garlic and lime with shrimp, but the Worcestershire really threw this off for me. The kids did not like it either. DH ate without complaint, but didn't ask for more. I normally love Wor. sauce, but I guess more for red meats rather than seafood.
These were some of the best shrimp i ever made! fantastic caribbean flavors, my side with it was a lime and cilantro rice that was a great complement to them
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Think You Have Fresh Eggs? Here's How to Tellhealthy fats
Don't you just love the way truly fresh eggs look in a bowl after you crack them? The yolks are so perfectly rounded and the whites whip up into the fluffiest meringue!
Fresh eggs go with the territory when you purchase from a local farm. Good quality, local eggs sell quickly enough that there isn't any need for the tricks the egg industry uses to prolong egg freshness such as partial freezing and cold storage for weeks at a time before they hit your supermarket shelf.
Even if you buy organic eggs from Whole Foods or other healthfood store, it is possible to get old eggs. Old eggs not only don't taste as good, in my opinion, but they also don't poach nicely into that perfect egg shape that sits so pretty on top of a slice of toast or English muffin.
Do you suspect your fresh eggs might be less than really fresh? If so, here are two clues that you need to find another egg source as suggested by Kenji Lopez-Alt, Chief Creative Officer of Serious Eats.
The Julian Date Tells the Tale
In the United States, every egg carton sold in a store is required to be stamped with a number between 000 and 365. This number is the Julian Date and indicates the day of the year that the eggs were cleaned and packed into the carton. A carton stamped with 000 means the eggs were packed on January 1 and a number of 213 means they were packed on August 2.
The bottom line is that you want a date as high as possible ideally only a few days to a week from the Julian date of the day you are purchasing the eggs. Do not look at the date just to the right of the Julian Date as this is the expiration date of the eggs and could be up to six weeks after the eggs were packed!
For example, an egg carton stamped with the numbers 015 Feb 28 means that the eggs were packed on January 15 but the eggs can be sold until February 28 – a month and a half later!
Who wants six week old eggs that the store can legally sell as "fresh"? Not me!
The Float Test for Fresh Eggs
The second way to test the freshness of your egg is to carefully place the egg in a cup of water. Fresh eggs will sink and remain flat lengthwise at the bottom of the cup.
The older the egg, the more likely it is to completely float. Semi-fresh eggs will stand up on one end and not lie flat at the bottom. This is because an air pocket in the fat portion of the egg increases in size the older an egg gets.
Why Fresh Eggs Are Important
As with any food, the fresher the better. Better for taste and better for nutrition.
Who wants eggs that have been semi-frozen and in cold storage for weeks before you even get them home just to increase shelf life? Certainly not a good option particularly if you are soft boiling the egg in order to feed your baby the warm, liquid yolk as a traditional first food!
Fresh eggs also separate better. A nice, perky yolk can be separated easily with your hands without a single drop mixing in with the white to ruin your macaroons!
Finally, fresh eggs are so much easier to poach. Fresh eggs have tighter whites as well as yolks that retain their shape better as they cook. So if Eggs Benedict is your thing you will want to ensure that your eggs are as fresh as possible.
Do you have any egg freshness tips to add? Please share in the comment section.
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Coby @ The Natural Healthy & Skinny Fiber
I love farm fresh eggs! I have tried frozen eggs before and they just don't have the taste yuck!
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Caren Carla
Really, nice trick. I never thought that there can be such a difference in the fresh and old eggs.
I have eggs from April 2 2014 and I was wondering if they are still good to use? They are farm fresh and did wash them straight from the nesting box to the fridge. See I wash them, date them, then store them in my fridge right away. Will they still be good today?
Sarah TheHealthyHomeEconomist
If they float in a glass of water, I wouldn't use them.
Washing your eggs can actually make them go bad faster. It washes the protective layer called the bloom off of it.
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I got eggs from a farm recently and almost all of them had red specks in them. Is that bad? Also why do eggs sometimes have specks of blood in them?
Another good idea is to find a buyer who will tell you when their eggs were laid. If you're buying directly from a farmer or in a farmers market, they should be more than happy to tell you how many days old their eggs are.
Hopefully, you can find eggs so rich you can do this with them:
Hey that's a nice little trick.
I once bought some eggs at 7/11 and when I got home I was shocked to see over half of the eggs were cracked. I returned them and got my money back
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Josh Brancek
Wow, this is such an ingenious test!!! Thanks for the post Sarah
I love this! I tried it and it really works! Thank you.
I am incorporating your soft boiled egg yolk diet for my baby every day. Couldn't find a post that addresses this question:
1-Is one yolk a day sufficient or can I give him more? He is going to be 9 months old next week.
2-What about adults?? I have been taking "high quality" fish oil thinking it was benefiting me and my (nursing baby)…I want to take something to help my brain, too! I have never been an egg eater. I would never even touch them before a week ago! As I prepare it for my son I am getting much more comfortable with the idea of consuming it myself for the added benefits… After 3+ years I will be ditching the fish oil!!!
*My husband and I are even considering getting our own hens now…!
in order to have neon yellow whites the chicken food must be fortified with vitamin B2 (Riboflavin can be used as a deliberate orange-red food color additive).
Recently, I've bought farm fresh eggs from our local co-op. I keep getting eggs that have NEON YELLOW WHITES! I asked the producer, they don't know what causes it. A friend says that means the chickens were eating really awesome stuff. Above a commenter mentioned that it meant that the chickens were eating excess corn and soy – I feel like it would be more common for 'commercial' eggs if that were the case.
Anyone have any personal experience with this?
I'm planning on having hens soon, but alas, I'm not there yet!
Eating corn will make the eggs more yellow. But I think the store bought eggs are pale also because the chickens aren't getting much sunlight.
Love this post. I don't think people realize how dangerous eggs can be. I have gotten food poisoning from them.
Sarah Danial
Very cool! I didn't know older eggs will float. I just checked, and mine sunk to the bottom but not flat, so they are semi-fresh. The Julian date says 72, so early March.
Cherilynne Churchill via Facebook
I prefer the older eggs because they boil up better and the shell comes off easier.
Ashlee Gunsalus via Facebook
I get my eggs from a couple at church
Debbie Meade
How long will your eggs keep if unrefrigerated? Thanks.
Roseann Fisher
I raise chickens and I've learned that eggs straight from the chicken do not need refrigeration if you don't wash them. Just wipe off any excess dirt off the shell, but don't "wash" them. This will preserve the natural protective coating which keeps bacteria out.
I learned the hard way last year that they have to be washed to be dyed, or the protective coating will keep the color off too!
I would think that the actual cooking of the eggs in water would be effectively "washing" them. No?
Kristie Clower via Facebook
I've done this before but now I'm lucky enough to have 5 layers living in my backyard. I write the date on the eggs before I put them in the refrigerator. The rarely last more than 5 days.
Samantha Hall
Eww! My eggs didn't pass the float test! That's incredible though haha, I'll never be able to look at eggs the same again :p
Maria Bruhns via Facebook
No worries here…I get mine from a guy down the street. I've met the chickens laying them.
Monique Trahan via Facebook
There is actually nothing wrong with a month old egg if it was properly stored. They will keep for up to 4 months in a refrigerator. Mother Earth News has a great article on storing eggs.
Heritage hens fed a natural diet have two main flurries of egg laying, spring and fall, and will slow down or even stop in the heat of the summer and cold of winter. Our ancestors would save up eggs (and I do, too) and store them for the slow times. The older eggs are great for boiling as they are easier to peel. But you still should not pay extra for month old eggs sold as fresh.
Denver Tina via Facebook
Good information. I learned a lot from the comments, too.
Shirley Zupancic via Facebook
That's so funny, my family was just talking about this at a gathering yesterday.
Aila Alcontin via Facebook
Thanks for the info!
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michelle lye
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Thanks for the hard boiling tip, Sharon. Difficult peeling is one thing I've noticed since we starting buying eggs from our CSA…. but something I was willing to deal with to eat fresh eggs, though it seemed I was wasting a lot every time I peeled one. I'm going to go try your trick right now!
my mother always rolled her eggs to crack them all over for peeling. I've added a teaspoon, slipped under the membrane just below the shell. I can usually get the shell off in one strip that way, no pitting of the white, just a little rinse under the tap (which helps the salt stick better too!)
Barbara Swain
The last 20 years of my career as a home economist were spent as a food stylist. I often needed to by eggs for frying and/or hard-cooking. When it was critical I went directly to a chicken/egg farm near me. An employee told me that the age of the hen also had something to do with the perkiness (?) of the yolk and the tightness of the white. The older the hen, the looser the egg. I've never tried to confirm this with an academic but it sounds possible.
As a related tip, to prevent greening of the yolk after hard-cooking — plunge the freshly hard-cooked eggs into ice water to chill completely and remove the shells (even while they are chilling). I even cut them in half immediately to reduce the chemical interaction that produces the greening. I store the halves in a jar. ALL this is of course useless in the case of Easter Eggs!
Good info…. Older eggs are better to turn into Deviled Eggs… the air pocket makes it easier to peel.
I have found that steamed eggs (steam for 10 minutes) peel much easier than hard boiled. So you may get your fresh eggs for Easter after all!
The salt trick/ice water immersion worked like a charm! Yay!!! Thanks again, Sharon!
Just a quick note for those who have chickens….fresh eggs are great until it comes time to hard boil them. Fresh eggs won't easily peel when hard boiled! That is why I have learned to set some aside a few weeks prior to Easter for my deviled eggs. They look prettier without all those pock marks! Vanity? You bet! The girls want to be represented well at Easter!
We also have chickens. I avoided making deviled eggs for the longest time. I tried setting eggs aside for a few weeks and they still were hard to peel. On the backyard chicken forum, I read that boiling fresh eggs in 2 Tbl. salt to 1 quart water and then immersing them in ice water would enable them to peel. It works every time. You have to use that much salt. Less won't work. Also, the eggs don't taste salty at all.
Thanks so much, Sharon. I've been wondering how to avoid the ugly eggs. I'm going to try the salt trick now!
I haven't tried it yet but I've read that "hard boiling" eggs by baking them in the shell make them easy to peel too. The instructions said to put each egg in a hole of a muffin tin, put in the oven (without preheating) turn on to 350 and let bake for 30 minutes.
Megan @ Purple Dancing Dahlias
Wonderful Info! I know that my eggs are always super fresh. At least twenty-four of them come out of the coop everyday
Can you comment on how to tell the quality of the egg, apart from freshness? I thought that a darker and brighter yolk meant the chickens were eating their greens, as they should.
Nope, eating their grubs, as they should 😉
I just went back to the UK for a couple of weeks and it's crazy how different the eggs in the supermarket are there. They don't refrigerate them in the stores which means they can't be that old and apparently it's illegal to wash the eggs. The reasoning is that:
1. It weakens the shells and can contaminate them.
2. If you can't wash the eggs then you have to keep a much cleaner environment for the chickens.
The shells on the eggs are much more like farm eggs than the ones in the US. They're like little rocks!
The egg theory is correct. Fresh eggs' withies and yolks have higher density then the old one. Runny whites from the fresh eggs could be due to the environmental stress or other unfavorable conditions. In general, fresh eggs have tighter whites. Also, if the eggs shell has an unusual shape and some calcifications around the shell, excessive brown spots, or transparent shell – the chicken was in some kinds stress: environmental, nutritional, or not well chicken. The color of the egg's white and yolk is a good indicator of the chicken diet. Clear white and orange yolk – indicates that the chicken was primarily feed sprouts, worms, and a few grain (best eggs). The yellower the white = more corn, soy, and grain in the chicken feed (worst egg). Most of the large eggs producer add Yellow color to the chicken feed to make egg yolk look yellower.
Loved your article on how to tell if eggs are fresh and have forwarded the info.
However, the info did not apply to the eggs my son bought…….they were marked:
Best by May 8 (on first line)……..
then on second line it read: 12P1691CO84M………
Can you decifer that info?
Sarah, The Healthy Home Economist
Look around on the carton maybe on the other side or on the top. The Julian date is required to be on there somewhere if the eggs are retail at a store.
Also loved your article, and also have the same problem. I have Vital Farms eggs from Wholefoods (certified humane, raised outdoors), the stamp shows
I also spotted hardly visible letters: L H W on the bottom of the carton.
Called the Wholefoods store to ask – they didn't know anything about it.
Sarah, TheHealthyHomeEconomist
Also, if you are not in the US, Julian date may not be on the carton. Other countries have other rules. The float test works everywhere though
I know for a fact that fresh eggs do not always equal tighter whites. We have 12 hens and I have noticed that the weather (sunshine, temperature, etc) greatly affects egg production AND quality. Many times I will crack an egg that has just been gathered and the whites will spread all over the skillet. I'm not quite sure what causes it – haven't been able to find anyone who knows – but it will happen. Prior to owning my own hens I had used the tight white theory to judge egg freshness from my local farm, but now I am experiencing that that isn't necessarily true. Although, more often than not, the whites are tight rather than runny.
Sarah, as the hen get older(2 yrs and older), the whites become runny and the yolk is flattened. Best to let the girls lay no longer than 2 yrs, then into the stew pot.
Sorry, meant Amy.
Carolyn, that's been my experience with eggs too.
Yes, I agree Amy. We have had chickens for 5 yrs now and sell eggs, so we always do the water test to check for bad ones (any egg that floats immediately should be tossed) and I even have a customer who wants his eggs at least a week old, because he likes the flavor. He grew up in Mexico and says that folks there know that they taste better! Ok, I prefer mine fresh (1-3 days) and I do not refrigerate unless they have been wet or washed and the cuticle has been removed. (This always gets an argument from some..) One of my customers is from England and he said that eggs are on the same aisle as bread…unrefrigerated! He says that we Americans make things harder sometimes! Ha! Anyway, love my chickens! Oh, one more thing! I researched how long an unrefrigerated egg could last in a cool, dark room and believe it or not…6 MONTHS! A gentleman did a study on it, just out of curiosity and found that in his cool, dry, dark closet..they stayed that long! AMAZING!
silvia alvarez
dont have any tips to add but i have a question…where is the best place to store eggs? fridge?
Sarah, The Healthy Home Economist
I refrigerate because of the heat and humidity where I live and also because some of my eggs are fertilized as my farmer has a few roosters running around.
Well, my eggs are pretty old, I'm 52!
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Sol Lederman
Nice tips. Thanks.
This website will tell you what day of the year it is so you can check it before going to the store for those eggs: http://www.epochconverter.com/epoch/daynumbers.php


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Lennon took his players to St Andrews to train and prepare for the Hampden clash. And he used the extended time with his players to give some individual pep talks ahead of the club's second League Cup final in three years. Lennon showed the players footage of the celebrations when St Mirren won the 1987 Scottish Cup in a bid to inspire his players to glory.
The former Cowdenbeath manager said: "It's been a great week, we have really enjoyed the preparation and the build-up; getting away for a few days, the relaxation and the quality time we spent with the players and going over tactical strengths and weaknesses and how the game plan is going to hopefully pan out on Sunday."
Lennon went on: "But more importantly the players got away and got a little bit of quality time to themselves. That went well and it has also been good for myself that I can pull one or two of them aside and have a wee five or 10-minute chat.
"Sometimes that's difficult unless you grab them first thing in the morning or get them immediately after the training ground. Sometimes after lunch they have other agendas themselves. It was just great in the fact we were in beautiful surroundings and in a relaxed atmosphere.
"It was certainly different the way we have done it. Most clubs would probably go away together at the end of the week.
"But we felt that it would give us an upper hand to get into the players' minds from the early part of the week so we could pick that momentum up and at the tail end of the week we let the players get back to normality, spend it with their loved ones and get a night's sleep in their own beds - and raring to go on Sunday."
Only Lee Mair, David Barron and Graham Carey remain at St Mirren Park from the squad that lost 1-0 to nine-man Rangers in the 2010 final but Lennon is confident his players will handle the occasion, having seen them knock out Celtic in the last four.
He said: "You never know how they are going to be on the day but the experience they had in the semi-final will help. We know it's going to be a bigger crowd and there will be an absolutely terrific atmosphere.
"A lot of players throughout their career will not get to a final at all. For some of our players this might be their only cup final, for other ones it may be the start of many for them. My message come Sunday will be to make sure they make it an occasion that lives long in their memory for the rest of their lives and don't waste this opportunity."
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Gerber, 55, was stopped in his truck by a Sarasota County sheriff's deputy shortly after midnight on Jan. 12 for driving 64 mph in a 45 mph zone on S. Tamiami Trail, according to the Sheriff's Office.
The DUI arrest comes after the Herald-Tribune reported in November of Gerber's soured business deals and accusations that he defrauded investors and misspent an economic development grant awarded to Tube Dude LLC by Sarasota County.
Gerber smelled of alcohol and was stuttering and repeating himself, the deputy said in his report. Gerber could not keep his balance and failed a roadside sobriety test, according to the report, and he failed a breathalzyer test which showed a 0.131 percent blood alcohol level. Florida drivers are considered intoxicated at 0.08 percent.
Gerber originally told the deputy he had consumed one beer earlier in the evening at Gecko's in the Hillview area, the arrest report states. Gerber later said he had two beers, but told the deputy, "Go ask the bartender."
Gerber, whose driver's license was suspended for failure to pay fines, was also issued citations for speeding, driving with an expired license, expired tags and no proof of insurance.
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I have 2 blogs, one is a network status blog and the other one was hacked up to work as an equipment data repository. The equipment page was set up to show posts in the main section in alphabetical order.
On the network status blog I successfully added a "recent posts" list to the sidebar.
On the equipment page I copied the recent posts from the network status page and altered it to show the equipment posts based on the category they're in. Unfortunately, when you select a category it only shows the last entry for that category in the sidebar. What I need is for it to show all the posts for a given category.
I'm not to familiar with PHP so a lot of my work was copy/paste trial and error.
Here's what I have on the equipment page sidebar

<?php _e('Towers'); ?>

<div id="post- <?php the_ID(); ?>">
<a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark">
<?php the_title(); ?>
Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong?
I would like provide a link to the page, but it contains sensitive information so I can't.