Mike Dimmick's Bleurgh

Inspired by Dare : A Look at the xml:base attribute and the .NET Framework's XmlReader Let's start with a bald statement: I believe ...

From Paul Thurrott's WinInfo Short Takes : "First, Longhorn, the next major version of Windows, is currently in pre-beta (which use...

Call me an unreconstructed C zealot ;) Thanks. You still have to understand pointers in a reference-based language such as VB(.NET), C# or ...

I had an interesting problem this afternoon: a client program using a UDP transport was having trouble communicating with its server. The cl...

I see that MSDN is still having character set trouble: it looks like pages are being encoded with UTF-8, then the encoded page is again pass...

Dear MS: With regard to the XP SP2 Security Center, specifically the dialog depicted here . Please could you add a checkbox labelled: I am n...

Follow-up to the methodology of making tea ( jeffdav ) - milk in first, or afterwards? If you're doing it properly, you should be makin...

While on the subject of character encoding, I had a big followup which I was going to send to John Robbins about his  Bugslayer column in ...

BlogJet now has a Code tab, so I can go and tinker with the few bits it gets wrong and add strikethrough . Recently there was a débacle over...

I definitely stand by an earlier post (at least, I think I've posted this before): Norton Internet Security must die! Sadly I don't ...

Raymond Chen: Why do I get a QueryInterface(IID_IMarshal) and then nothing? I had this problem with some CE ActiveX controls originally deve...

Dammit! BlogJet's Post button looks too much like the Link button Rory had an 81... I'm celebrating (I believe) my 20th year of prog...

...but then my involvement with it is typically limited to randomisation values or APIs which are more convenient in floating point, but don...

...I'm out of a job. Also, if he finds the number of posts on CodeProject  (782 in 10 months = ~2.6 per day since I joined) I'm defi...

We appear to have a programming strategy at my employer which could be termed the Pearl Fallacy. Basically, the principle is that if you sho...

If someone updates a blog post, I'd like to be able to see what the author changed . I've done the best I can with the change I just...

[Updated 2004-02-10: a reader corrected me on ownership of MPEG-4 AAC, which bores a huge hole in my argument. Whoops. Removed aspersions on...

The software community is currently on a big standards kick. If you've developed something, you try to get it standardised (example: Mic...

Dare blogs about XML 1.1 . Reading the summary Dare links to reminds me of C99 : a solution looking for a problem. There isn't anything...

I need to correct a bit of an injustice I did to the CLR a couple of weeks ago . Since then I've bought and read Shared Source CLI Essen...