In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is.

It's late. I'm very hungry. I really want to go home. In fact, I almost left 3 hours ago, except something very strange started happening with our UI bits and I didn't know why. Turns out we had a plumbing problem. And now I need to vent. Plumbing...

Preface OS loader has always intrigued me - probably because it works behind the scenes and no-one normally bothers to understand what is that is does exactly, until strange or funny things start happening. And they do. And then we read through...

Last time I was talking about DllMain and what nasty things can occur if you misuse it. I have also mentioned that it may not be one of those "I'm always careful it can never happen to me" situations - things can get out of hand very quickly. ...

Intro entries are for blogs are what "Hello world" applications are for most books - you need to have one, they all look alike - although everybody wants theirs to look different - and everyone (including the readers) are very happy to be over with...

So I have been thinking about C# lately. C# was born together with .Net and it is commonly thought of as a language that - having little legacy of its own - exposes most of CLR capabilities in a safe and consistent way. Sure, Managed C++ extensions...

I keep changing my mind whether C/C++ is a blessing or a cruel joke on us all. Sometimes I think it's great (when it lets me cast a block of memory to just about anything I want), and sometimes I really hate it(when it lets me cast a block of...

I think this is pretty fantastic. And scary in a way. In fact I have been thinking something along those lines for a while, just was never able to clearly articulate it. I guess it just confirms the fact that nothing happens by itself and that...