Programmers ultimately deal with people, both directly scoping with stakeholders, working with support people and indirectly end users. We can't afford to be anything less than fabulous with people. Software is eating our personal and professional lives, and we are today forced into relationships with digital counterparts that we often describe in human terms. Dale Carnegie training and his books kind of a life changing, the challenge is to keep practicing the parts that resonate with you as it does take work changing your habits at any company and industry. As users of software, when we are treated as an afterthought or merely a means to an end, we start down the path of “endless trouble”. As software developers, we have a responsibility to avoid this and make them feel important. More...

First of all, as you probably already know I was working in Bing Ads and I am going to move to the Bing Search next week (Satori is my new team) and I will be working in the city center plaza  in Bellevue (head quarters of Bing). Second, I see that a lot of people think that Google is only one good search engine that can find stuff in the web and people usually don't trust new search engines like Bing. So, people in Microsoft created web site where you can challenge Bing versus Google to change this or at least try. Microsoft and the Bing team set up a little website that lets you blindly compare search engines with 5 searches side to side. You can’t see which is which as the results populate and you choose which is better the one on the left or the right. More...