Was 9/11 an Inside Job?
I was taking a break from writing this morning and googling the Web for articles on centers-of-lift and centers-of-gravity in airplanes when I came across a thought-provoking piece that has […]
Charles Petzold is Right! (and some code, and some profiling, and some BSOD debugging)
Recently in his blog, Charles Petzold wondered how anyone could write a book while working full time. When I did the first edition of my book, I didn’t have a […]
R/C Crash Video (Cockpit View)
Here’s a pretty cool video of an R/C airplane that crashed when the wing joiner failed. What’s unusual about it is that the video was taken with an on-board video […]
Escape From Yesterworld
You gotta hand it to Microsoft: when they do marketing, they do it right. Check out this ad for Visual Studio 2005 and SQL Server 2005: http://www.escapeyesterworld.com/
.NET Questions regarding JIT compiler/strong-naming security
A reader of my books asked me some .NET Questions regarding JIT compiler/strong-naming security. I thought I’d share his questions and my answers with you: 1. According to Microsoft documentation […]
New FxCop is Out and My Rules are Updated
FxCop 1.32 is out and is looking good. They have two versions, one for .NET 1.1 and one for .NET 2.0. I’m happy that the 2.0 aware version is out […]
Installation and MSBuild Fun
As I promised, I’ll be posting entries about work on the new Debugging, Testing, and Tuning .NET Applications. That way you’ll get to see exactly how the sausage is made. […]
F-16 Crash Video
I came across this picture of an F-16 coming out of a split-S at an airshow. The pic was taken just before the jet crashed (the pilot performed the maneuver […]
Ever want to see Bill Gates’ house, or the airplane graveyard?
Ted & Tamara Timmons used those Google Maps satellite photos to put together a great virtual tour of interesting places. Watch out though, once you start looking at all the […]