Riding Herd
Jeremy Mazner, Technical Evangelist
Fiddler for HTTP inspection/debugging
Via the IE team blog, it's Fiddler! This tool looks great. When I worked on the Sharepoint Portal...
Author: Jeremy M [MSFT] Date: 02/15/2005
VSLive Smart Client demo
We had a good time with Soma's keynote at VSLive, and the folks at Fawcette have made the talk...
Author: Jeremy M [MSFT] Date: 02/09/2005
Evangelism and credibility
I’ve been meaning to write about this for a while, but finding Rosyna’s post (thanks, Feedster!)...
Author: Jeremy M [MSFT] Date: 02/01/2005
When Shared Documents aren't
I just spent an hour helping a friend debug the strangest problem I've seen here at the Friends And...
Author: Jeremy M [MSFT] Date: 01/29/2005
Whidbey MSDN docs
I spent a frustrating few minutes googling (and MSNSearching) for the online class reference and...
Author: Jeremy M [MSFT] Date: 12/21/2004
Evangelism jobs available
Our team is looking to hire some new evangelists. Here are the details and links to information on...
Author: Jeremy M [MSFT] Date: 11/29/2004
InfoWorld Top 100 IT projects of 2004
A colleague sent around a link to InfoWorld’s write-up of their top 100 IT projects for 2004: “As...
Author: Jeremy M [MSFT] Date: 11/29/2004
Useful, and free: Lookout, XP Backup
Nothing better than finding a couple of free utilities that are actualy useful. Lookout: this is a...
Author: Jeremy M [MSFT] Date: 09/10/2004
SP2 working well for me
With SP2 released and available via Windows Update, I wanted to update all my machines. Here's my...
Author: Jeremy M [MSFT] Date: 09/08/2004
BusinessWeek on the LH changes
I hadn't seen this one referenced anywhere else...so here it is, with no additional comments from me...
Author: Jeremy M [MSFT] Date: 09/08/2004
What happened to WinFS?
Friday’s announcement has left a lot of people asking what happened to WinFS? The short answer is:...
Author: Jeremy M [MSFT] Date: 08/29/2004
What happened to Longhorn?
Well, that was an exciting announcement. There’s a good CNET interview with BillG that provides...
Author: Jeremy M [MSFT] Date: 08/29/2004
Jon Udell's blogs turn into a cover story
Jon Udell has turned his series of blog entries on Longhorn into an InfoWorld cover story . His...
Author: Jeremy M [MSFT] Date: 07/20/2004
Allocating aligned memory in Windows
A question came up on an internal alias about allocating memory blocks along page alignments, and it...
Author: Jeremy M [MSFT] Date: 07/19/2004
Back from vacation
My blog has been quiet the past few weeks because of travel, both for work and vacation. If your...
Author: Jeremy M [MSFT] Date: 07/02/2004
When a journalist blogs, is it journalism? or blogging?
Random thought that hit me as I was reading Jon Udell's blog entries on Longhorn. What's the...
Author: Jeremy M [MSFT] Date: 06/14/2004
Did I misunderstand Udell's argument against WinFS?
Several responses to my last post on Jon Udell’s entries on WinFS suggest that I didn’t...
Author: Jeremy M [MSFT] Date: 06/14/2004
Jon Udell questions the value and direction of WinFS
Jon Udell at InfoWorld is doing a series of blog entries on Longhorn. Feedster just discovered his...
Author: Jeremy M [MSFT] Date: 06/07/2004
Smart client bonanza
I came across a bunch of smart client links today, perhaps these will be of interest to some of you....
Author: Jeremy M [MSFT] Date: 06/03/2004
Evangelizing security in XP SP2
I spent a bit of time recently away from Longhorn evangelism, in order to help with some XP SP2...
Author: Jeremy M [MSFT] Date: 04/26/2004
What? They cut WinFS??
There has been a great deal of hubub about what Jay Greene’s BusinessWeek article means for...
Author: Jeremy M [MSFT] Date: 04/13/2004
"You work for crooks, Jeremy"
I got into an interesting discussion in the comments on Dan Gillmor’s column about...
Author: Jeremy M [MSFT] Date: 03/27/2004
A WinFS scenario from someone other than me...
...and he's a real developer, even! Dan Crevier, an architect on the People & Groups team on...
Author: Jeremy M [MSFT] Date: 03/15/2004
Online geek golfing
I'm not the first one to notice, but my teammate Jeff Sandquist has set up an XBox Live! community...
Author: Jeremy M [MSFT] Date: 03/05/2004
Using your existing C++ code with managed code
Courtesy of Nick Hodapp, here's a great example of using Managed C++ to quickly and easily make...
Author: Jeremy M [MSFT] Date: 02/27/2004
WinFS designers on .NET show -- what would you ask?
Robert Hess tells me the next episode of The .NET Show on MSDN will cover WinFS. He's interested in...
Author: Jeremy M [MSFT] Date: 02/23/2004
Office 2003 XML file formats
While responding to an earlier comment, I came across a nice write-up from Mike Gunderloy of...
Author: Jeremy M [MSFT] Date: 02/23/2004
Okay, forget the easter eggs
Haven't yet seen one person in favor of easter eggs, and in fact Tom points out that Microsoft's own...
Author: Jeremy M [MSFT] Date: 02/23/2004
Easter egg follow-up
Tom says there's no excuse for adding easter eggs. I think this post of mine has generated more...
Author: Jeremy M [MSFT] Date: 02/23/2004
The cost of frequent bits updates
Sharing Whidbey interim releases more frequently (Mark Cliggett, via JayBaz, via Scoble) with our...
Author: Jeremy M [MSFT] Date: 02/23/2004
No code is too old for .NET!
What do you do when you want to innovate on top of 1.4M lines of 20-year old C code? Code so ancient...
Author: Jeremy M [MSFT] Date: 02/20/2004
Alas for the easter eggs...
Remember back when Microsoft apps had cool easter eggs? Easter eggs were always a fun way for the...
Author: Jeremy M [MSFT] Date: 02/19/2004
More Longhorn evangelists in the house
Turns out my evangelism cohorts Dave Massy and Karsten Januszewski are back into the blogging world....
Author: Jeremy M [MSFT] Date: 02/17/2004
Smart Clients today
Trying to address the continuing complaints about too much Longhorn blogging and not enough...
Author: Jeremy M [MSFT] Date: 02/16/2004
Valley speaker series on Friday
Here’s a chance for developers in the Bay Area to hear about Microsoft’s efforts to...
Author: Jeremy M [MSFT] Date: 02/16/2004
Back in the saddle again
I'm ready to get back to my blog after a long holiday break! I lost blogging momentum around...
Author: Jeremy M [MSFT] Date: 01/29/2004