A Microspotting photo showed up in the Wall Street Journal online today!

If you look closely here, you can see a screenshot of the Workin it @ MSFT page on Facebook. I’m an admin for that group, and we used a photo from Justin Wilcox’s Microspotting profile the main image. Hence, even though Microspotting itself isn’t in the WSJ, you get to see a Microspotting picture.

If you missed the profile of Justin and his mohawk back in October, it’s worth a read. Oh, and speaking of Justin … He’s actually preparing to leave Teh ‘Soft™ to go start his own company! While I’m sad to see him go, I consider it a Microsoft success story when someone gets the training and support they need here to go start up their own thing. Plus, as Gretchen is proof of, smart alumi not infrequently find their way back.

A Microsoft tester spills his guts about testing tools for devs, chugging the kool-aid, and dancing zombies

The geek in question
Justin Wilcox

The job title
Test Lead, MSMQ

MSMQ, huh? Nice Microsoft acronym. Break it down for me.
MSMQ stands for Microsoft Message Queuing, which ships as part of Windows. We’re a messaging platform that developers use if you’ve got an application on Computer A that wants to send information to Computer B, you use us to guarantee that information gets there, even if there’s a failure (e.g. machines burst into flames, someone trips over the Ethernet cable, asteroids, etc.) after you sent the information.

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