Well, I've been working on my new team for 4 weeks now. I've learned a lot about their process. I'm getting better at running tests and figuring out failures. I'm getting more familiar with the source base. I've learned little bits about optimizations...

So despite the misreably long time it takes to run checkin tests, I've still managed get 2 checkins through. The downside is that both of those checkins resulted in bugs. On the plus side one of those bugs technically wasn't caused by me, but was merely...

OK, so like 20 years ago (yes, I'm exaggerating a little) it was quite common to run across compiler bugs, where you needed to disable some optimization locally or globally to get your program to work correctly. I think that's mostly gone now, but there...

So I had a short email exchange with a collegue about iterators. He mentioned that I should put in in my blog. Seemed reasonable, so here it is: Subject: Iterator generated code ... I'm looking at porting a hand-coded enumerator to...

I wish we had more UE (User Education for those not familiar with Microsoft acronyms) interaction when writing error messages. Usually, it is just a one or more devs that try and write some English (but remember we're CS or EE majors, not English or communications...