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

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