Hear My Interview on Debugging
Craig Shoemaker recently interviewed me about my favorite topic, debugging, of course, for Pixel 8. We had a great time on the interview and I even got to tell one […]
More on Regular Expressions
The always enjoyable Jeff Atwood wrote an excellent discussion about regular expressions that everyone should read. Having seen many times where a developer will write a full blown parser instead […]
The Case of the Access Denied
After coming back from vacation, I powered on my laptop, named BERLIN, and it took an inordinate amount of time to login. After much disk grinding, the desktop finally loaded […]
WinDBG 6.9.3.113 Released
Looks like the WinDBG team was busy over the weekend and posted a new build of WinDBG: 6.9.3.113. The big fixes look like squashed bugs and performance improvements in symbol […]
Vista x64 is Now Officially Supported on Mac Hardware!
You all know my geek love for Apple hardware. Yesterday Apple released the official drivers for Vista x64 support! You’ll need to download and install Boot Camp Update 2.1 and […]
Easily Downloading and Installing the Sysinternals Suite
Everyone uses Mark Russinovich’s and Bryce Cogswell’s excellent Sysinternals Tools. Tools like Process Explorer and Process Monitor have helped solve some of the toughest bugs I’ve ever worked on. I’ve […]
Paraffin 1.03 – Couple of Bug Fixes
Last year I released a tool to help make maintaining WiX 2.0-based installations easier called Paraffin. I’ve fixed the following two issues: I was relying on the short name of […]
Installing Windows Server 2003 R2 x64 on a Mac Pro
Recently, the computer I was using as my server started having some overheating problems. The good news is that the machine shut down before harming components, but with that machine […]
The Travel Day from Hell
Sometimes traveling for business can be fun. As part of my job, I’ve been able to travel all over this wonderful planet. On my business trips I’ve gotten to see […]