Monday, 10 March 2008

How do I see what the JIT compiled, anyway?

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You use the SOS debugger extension’s !U command. Yeah, that’s not very helpful. Here’s how to get from that terse description to something ...
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What the heck does 'rep ret' mean?

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I was looking at what the .NET x64 JIT compiler generates for some code, and saw something very odd at the end of the routine: the last inst...
Sunday, 13 January 2008

BT and the case of the missing DSL service

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Recently, at the end of September, I got a new neighbour in the flat downstairs. The property is an end terrace, split into two flats in 199...

Return of Best Error Page

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CodeProject ’s one of my favourite sites – indeed, one of the few real regular sites I visit – but it’s always had a bit of a problem with e...
Friday, 7 December 2007

Calling out EMBASSY Trust Suite

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Dear Wave Systems , Fuck right off. When I bought my Dell Latitude D820 laptop, I went through and deleted a certain amount of the shovelw...
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Sunday, 4 November 2007

VS2005 Smart Device projects don't Dispose components

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I’ve posted about this on Connect  and on Codeproject’s Lounge , and informed my colleagues, but not yet on here. I realise I’m repeating my...
Friday, 12 October 2007

Tired of whacking rats

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I’m fed up with Windows Mobile. Fed up with it from an enterprise device perspective, anyway. See, most customers want a limited set of appl...
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Monday, 3 September 2007

Everyone working on databases should read this

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Rico Mariani (now Chief Architect of Visual Studio, formerly just a performance architect on the .NET Framework) has written a great article...
Tuesday, 10 July 2007

Another reason not to overload the .NET Framework name

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This month’s security bulletin becomes a lot more confusing. It was pretty confusing already, but the extra detail of .NET Framework 3.0 is...
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Tuesday, 5 June 2007

Wow, long time no post

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I have intended to on occasions, never got round to it. It’s been so long that Blogger have changed completely over to Google logins and my ...
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When developers fight...

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Microsoft take their ball away .
Thursday, 25 January 2007

The problem with biometrics

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If they change, they can’t identify you
Tuesday, 16 January 2007

Geek Dinner this Friday (19 Jan)

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My friend Colin Mackay , who I know from CodeProject , sent me a message last week to tell me that he was attending this weekend’s Vista and...
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Wednesday, 20 December 2006

How to misuse the Office 2007 Ribbon

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Dare Obasanjo has noticed a comment of mine on Jensen Harris’s post announcing Microsoft’s licensing of the concept of the Office 2007 ‘R...
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Tuesday, 19 December 2006

Another knock-on effect of the stupid WinFX->.NET 3.0 naming decision

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The next version of the Compact Framework will be called: .NET Compact Framework 3.5 . Yeah. Great way to confuse people.
Monday, 4 December 2006

Spotted: bad Google ads

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Saw this strip of ads on a site: Test advert got onto a real site, perhaps? I know the site owner has only just added AdWords to their site,...

Spotted: bad Google ads

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Saw this strip of ads on a site: Test advert got onto a real site, perhaps? I know the site owner has only just added AdWords to their site,...
Friday, 3 November 2006

How to fix the Smart Device Framework 2.0 installer

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Neil Cowburn noted that the Smart Device Framework 2.0 installer doesn’t work properly on Windows Vista . This is the comment I couldn’t pos...
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Wednesday, 20 September 2006

Petition to rename .NET Framework 3.0

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As soon as I heard that Microsoft were changing the name WinFX, an umbrella name for Avalon, Indigo – oh, excuse me, Windows Presentation Fo...
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Tuesday, 19 September 2006

Biometric scanners not particularly reliable

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Dana Epp posted a movie from Mythbusters cracking a fingerprint ‘lock’. Not exactly secure. Watch now . (YouTube, may get taken down when s...