David Weiss

Starting today I'll be writing at a new blog location: http://unweary.com/blog/ I've redirected the old RSS feed http://feeds.feed...

Especially with a code base that is mature, assumptions correctly made years ago can be terribly difficult to deal with later when the curre...

As with most forms of art, there are those pieces of music or sculpture or painting that you'll dislike. Perhaps what they portray or te...

I just found this great quote by Dee Hock, founder and CEO of VISA. I ask each person to describe the single most important responsibility...

I've visited a lot of places around the world, but I've only really lived in a few places. I grew up in Redmond, Washington, the Red...

Microsoft's recent introduction of Live Mesh is a perfect example of a core difference between Apple and Microsoft. Apple is, at heart, ...

A few tweets ago, (I always feel weird referring to Twitter in the past tense) I posted : Why are the unintelligent or uninformed so arrogan...

Here's a blast from the past. As Xcode continues to improve as the default IDE on the Mac and for the iPhone, the majority of Apple...

You don't have to understand calculus to appreciate this entertaining story : A teacher, trying to explain what a theory is, asked this ...

When I was a little boy my Mom had me memorize this little poem: Stick to your task ’til it sticks to you; Beginners are many, but enders ar...

Business Week's recent cover story on Lenovo's new ThinkPad X300 laptop caught my attention. Can you imagine spending 2 years worki...

I know I'm dating myself a bit here, but there was a time when friends my age would exchange songs via cassette tape. It was illegal I...

Beloved Church President Gordon B. Hinckley, who led The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints through 12 years of global expansion,...

I just rediscovered this great quote: A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but...

Starting today I no longer work at Microsoft. As many of you know, I started working at Microsoft after an illustrious post high school care...

In Google's recent Google Friends Newsletter we have this tidbit: Google Maps for mobile, now with My Location (beta) GPS-enabled mobile...

If the folks over at Gear Live have the scoop on the newest iPhone firmware update, it looks like it will add some very cool features. My f...

Every company, every team has their different traditions and specific culture and Microsoft is no exception. Christian Buckley of BlueBadgeM...

One of the great benefits of working at Microsoft is that when you add a new little one to your family, you get 1 month of paid paternity le...

One of the most important responsibilities of a great leader is to clearly define the goal, the vision, the what and why stuff, so that ever...