Omar Shahine's WebLogThe content of this blog is a subset of the posts I make to my personal blog http://www.shahine.com/omar/.To be continued... on my blog- May 30, 2005 Until further notice, I'm discontinuing cross posting to this blog. As always, all the posts here and future posts are published on my own hosted blog at http:www.shahine.comomar. If you want to continue getting my content, I've provided some easy links to maintain your subscription. RSS Feed Add RSS feed to My MSN Add RSS feed to My Yahoo! Add RSS feed to Bloglines Add RSS feed to Newsgator If you are subscribing to a specific category feed, you can find a bunch of category RSS..http://blogs.msdn.com/omars/archive/2005/05/29/423109.aspx Treo 650 Review Part 3- May 21, 2005 I almost forgot that I never finished my Treo Review Series. The device is so integrated into my habits now that I don't even notice how much I depend on and value the device. It's been over a month since the last review, and that's a good thing because I have finally settled on all the applications that I deem "core" to my Treo experience, and the stability of the device has gone up as a result since I don't installuninstall programs daily. If you missed it, here is Part 1, & Part...http://blogs.msdn.com/omars/archive/2005/05/21/420771.aspx Good luck Dennis!- May 21, 2005 Dennis Cheung, someone that I interviewed for his first job out of college, and someone who I managed for a while in MacBU, announced that he is leaving the MacBU for the MSN Desktop Search Team. I seriously dig the hard work and attitude of the Desktop Search Team. They run one of the best dogfood programs inside Microsoft. Many Microsoft teams open up their product to internal Microsoft folks for "dogfooding". For those of you unfamiliar with that word, it's essentially using pre-beta...http://blogs.msdn.com/omars/archive/2005/05/21/420759.aspx This blog location- May 20, 2005 For a while now (since January 2004) I have been posting both to my personal blog (http:www.shahine.comomar) and another blog located at http:blogs.msdn.comomars. At the time there were about 140 Microsoft blogs on blogs.msdn.com. I don't actually post things twice, rather dasBlog can crosspost both to this blog and any number of other blogs that support the blogger APIs. My main motivation for doing this was that I wanted to be part of the Microsoft blogger community. I also used to...http://blogs.msdn.com/omars/archive/2005/05/20/420632.aspx Wow I was slashdotted!- May 19, 2005 I never thought it would happen, but thanks to Dan Crevier's recent patent, I was slashdotted because I have a blog post that gives some background on Dan (who to this day is still one of the smartest people I've had the honour of working with at Microsoft). I haven't read all the commotion regarding the patent and I really don't care. Dan's a good guy and that's all that matters to me. Plus dasBlog didn't tip over :-).http://blogs.msdn.com/omars/archive/2005/05/18/419803.aspx Newsgator + FeedDemon- May 17, 2005 Interesting indeed. I started using FeedDemon because I grew tired of having my RSS in Outlook (I do not think RSS belongs there for high volume RSS readers). Before using FeedDemon though I was using NewsGator Online, and then added FeedDemon because while I liked the benefits of online I did want a single offline client that sync'ed to NewsGator Online and well FeedDemon does this. Congrats to Greg and Nick on the deal. I think it will result in really positive outcomes for both sides of the..http://blogs.msdn.com/omars/archive/2005/05/17/418403.aspx When the work you do is architectural (MSN mobile messaging)- May 14, 2005 The other day I had an experience with my computer, and MSN's software that just made me smile. You see, for the past year or so folks on my team have been involved on a feature that took coordination from dozens of internal teams. This was a big feature, one that I have spent countless man hours involved in, and some of my directs and co-workers an order of magnitude more time working on. It took everything from sharp technical minds, good business practice, relationships with carriers,...http://blogs.msdn.com/omars/archive/2005/05/14/417511.aspx Yahoo Music- May 12, 2005 Here is why Yahoo Music is cool. Yes I work for MSN, and sure I wish MSN Music had this same feature, but I'm super excited that Yahoo Music launched their business. Why THEY ARE BUILT ON OUR PLATFORM! Let me explain. A few months ago I wrote this post about Technology Camps. Let me point out my favorite paragraph: "Now contrast this to Microsoft. For the past few years the focus has been on building a world class platform. From the codec's, to the encoding technology, to the protocol for...http://blogs.msdn.com/omars/archive/2005/05/12/416752.aspx Vacation over, Maui rocked- May 12, 2005 Well I returned from a 10 day break from work this past Saturday, and on Monday I hit the ground running. Of course before I left for work I made two big mistakes. I subscribed to these two mailing lists at work and I didn't want them filling up my inbox so I created some rules. Well I made a mistake, rather than filtering mail sent To a DL I filtered the mail From a DL. Well this is interesting in that if you do that and you get a message from some one who is a member of a DL, then the...http://blogs.msdn.com/omars/archive/2005/05/12/416747.aspx |