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May 2005 - Posts

ITIL, MOF, and a critical mass of blogs

Posted Sunday, May 29, 2005 7:12 PM by jonathanh
Way back when , I wrote a couple of posts about ITIL and MOF (ITIL is an industry-standard set of best practices for running your IT department, and MOF describes how to apply those standards to Microsoft applications). Not much happened because, well, Read More...
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NYT article about Eric Rudder... and other Microsoft bloggers

Posted Tuesday, May 24, 2005 10:05 PM by jonathanh
Tomorrow’s New York Times is running an article by Steve Lohr entitled “ A Front-Runner at Microsoft, but There’s No Race Yet ” (registration required). The article is mostly about Eric Rudder, Senior VP of the Server and Tools division and about five Read More...
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What is capacity planning, anyway?

Posted Monday, May 23, 2005 11:30 PM by jonathanh
I have an entire category about capacity planning , so it's probably time to define what capacity planning is. Here’s what current Microsoft literature has to say: “Developing a Capacity Plan, analyzing the current situation, and predicting the future Read More...
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Optimizing managed C# vs. native C++ code

Posted Friday, May 20, 2005 7:40 PM by jonathanh
Raymond Chen (aka "fixed more Windows bugs than you've had hot dinners") and Rico Mariani (aka "Mr .NET Performance") have been running a great series of articles where they write and then optimize the same application in two different languages: native Read More...
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XBox 360 vs. Sony PS3

Posted Friday, May 20, 2005 1:10 PM by jonathanh
Major Nelson of XBox Live has just posted four articles comparing the XBox 360 to the Sony PS3: part 1 , part 2 , part 3 , and part 4 . If you're tired of reading comparisons written by fanboys who've never taken a computer architecture class in their Read More...
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Lots of LUA links

Posted Thursday, May 19, 2005 11:33 AM by jonathanh
[I originally posted this two weeks ago, but it got lost when they had to roll back the servers, and it doesn't look like the original is coming back anytime soon] I’ve added a bunch of new links to the non-admin wiki , taken from various blog posts over Read More...
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Problems with our blogging platform

Posted Wednesday, May 18, 2005 11:55 PM by jonathanh
Only very short posts go through. Betsy is on the case. Normal service will be resumed as soon as possible... Read More...
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FeedDemon vs NewsGator: why platforms are bad and RSS isn't email

Posted Tuesday, May 17, 2005 5:55 PM by jonathanh
Several months ago I started writing a review of FeedDemon and NewsGator, together with an explanation of why I switched (twice). Now that FeedDemon has been bought out by NewsGator , it’s probably time to finish that review… Like Alex Barnett , I actually Read More...
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Video from MMS 2005

Posted Monday, May 16, 2005 10:05 PM by jonathanh
Larry Gregory has posted a great video from the Microsoft Management Summit — well worth watching, even if you were there in person! It's the "Management" episode of his ISV Show series, so as well as walking around the conference floor and interviewing Read More...
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MSN Desktop Search is out of beta - go get it!

Posted Sunday, May 15, 2005 10:55 PM by jonathanh
The MSN Search team have just announced that their desktop search tool is out of beta. You can read more about it in this CNET article (via Scoble ), or go straight to the download page like I did. I’m not ashamed to admit that I’ve become reliant on Read More...
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The MMS 2005 conference bag

Posted Saturday, May 07, 2005 3:10 PM by jonathanh
I’ve had a couple requests for a picture of the MMS 2005 conference bag that I enthused over : Read More...
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