Ian Reay http://ianreay.com/blog Exploring Advanced Software Development and Debugging Techniques Sat, 10 Oct 2009 13:48:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 en Interesting Finds http://ianreay.com/blog/?p=33 http://ianreay.com/blog/?p=33#comments Sat, 10 Oct 2009 13:44:50 +0000 ianreayc http://ianreay.com/blog/?p=33 NirLauncher

Fault Tolerant Heap

  • Windows 7 is going to ship with a new subsystem that attempts to improve application stability.
  • A very interesting approach. Something software developers (and testers) will need to be aware of.

Radar

  • A built in memory leak detector that ships with windows vista.
  • To bad they don’t seem to publish api’s so third parties can use it.
]]> http://ianreay.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=33 Windows Error Reporting http://ianreay.com/blog/?p=32 http://ianreay.com/blog/?p=32#comments Sun, 15 Mar 2009 20:48:28 +0000 ianreayc http://ianreay.com/blog/?p=32 CER Implementation plan is an interesting overview of what needs to be considered when leveraging Windows Error Reporting and Corporate Error Reporting infrastructures.

]]> http://ianreay.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=32 Troubleshooting AD issues with repadmin.exe http://ianreay.com/blog/?p=31 http://ianreay.com/blog/?p=31#comments Sun, 15 Mar 2009 17:46:53 +0000 ianreayc http://ianreay.com/blog/?p=31 Monitoring and Troubleshooting Active Directory Replication Using Repadmin, Contains a great overview of how you can track down issues related to AD replication in addition to ways of manually controlling replication.

]]> http://ianreay.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=31 Visualizing Database Joins http://ianreay.com/blog/?p=30 http://ianreay.com/blog/?p=30#comments Wed, 11 Feb 2009 03:11:58 +0000 ianreayc http://ianreay.com/blog/?p=30 A simple and yet effective discussion of SQL Joins. Good for SQL newbies.

]]> http://ianreay.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=30 John Sheehan: Architecture and Engineering of Microsoft Application Virtualization (AppVirt) http://ianreay.com/blog/?p=29 http://ianreay.com/blog/?p=29#comments Wed, 11 Feb 2009 02:27:26 +0000 ianreayc http://ianreay.com/blog/?p=29 John Sheehan has given a pretty fascinating discussion of how App-V is implemented internally.

I highly recommend this video to anyone interested in advanced application architecture.

]]> http://ianreay.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=29 R-Value References http://ianreay.com/blog/?p=28 http://ianreay.com/blog/?p=28#comments Wed, 04 Feb 2009 13:37:12 +0000 ianreayc http://ianreay.com/blog/?p=28 Stephan T. Lavavej, the main C++ standard library guy at Microsoft, provides a great explanation of the R-Value references and what they mean for C++0x

]]> http://ianreay.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=28 Mark Russinovich: The Case of the Phantom Desktop Files http://ianreay.com/blog/?p=26 http://ianreay.com/blog/?p=26#comments Wed, 04 Feb 2009 13:31:13 +0000 ianreayc http://ianreay.com/blog/?p=26 In this post, Mark discusses a very interesting feature in IE on Vista Server 2008, Protected Mode (PMIE) and integrity levels.

I didn’t realize that IE sandboxes native code such as ActiveX controls and can redirect calls to certain folders.

]]> http://ianreay.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=26 Fiddler Http Debugger http://ianreay.com/blog/?p=25 http://ianreay.com/blog/?p=25#comments Sat, 17 Jan 2009 23:54:33 +0000 ianreayc http://ianreay.com/blog/?p=25 Here is a great overview of the fiddler http debugger.

http://west-wind.com/weblog/posts/596348.aspx

Major points include:

  1. Intercepting general http traffic for IE
  2. How proxies can be used to intercept http traffic from other browsers.
  3. Intercept/Debug web service traffic
]]> http://ianreay.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=25 Interesting Items (2) http://ianreay.com/blog/?p=21 http://ianreay.com/blog/?p=21#comments Mon, 01 Sep 2008 14:04:13 +0000 ianreayc http://ianreay.com/blog/?p=21 Mark Russonovich

Rafal Lukawiecki

Microsoft Advanced Windows Debugging and Troubleshooting Blog

  • Basics of NT Debugging
    • Discusses debuggers such as ntsd.exe, cdb.exe, and windbg.exe. A great post for anyone getting started in native windows development.

Jonathan Edwards

  •  Too Many Cores, Not Enough Brains
    • A very interesting take on the whole Concurrent Programming movement in software development. Argues that “Giving a multicore CPU to a programmer is like giving a drink to an alcoholic” which do agree with to a point ;). People developing concurrent applications should at least be aware of this critique.

Mark Roberts

]]> http://ianreay.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=21 C++ Concurreny Info http://ianreay.com/blog/?p=23 http://ianreay.com/blog/?p=23#comments Fri, 15 Aug 2008 12:35:02 +0000 ianreayc http://ianreay.com/blog/?p=23 Anthony Williams is playing a major role in the development of concurrency concepts in C++0x. Below is a link to a book he is writing regarding this topic. Looks like it should be a good one.

http://www.justsoftwaresolutions.co.uk/news/c++-concurrency-in-action-early-access.html

Slides from a recent talk he have at ACCU 2008 regarding C++0x concurrency changes are available at:

http://accu.org/content/conf2008/Williams-future_of_concurrency.pdf

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