Have you ever wondered how to get the DNS domain of the machine from a Windows batch file? Well, I needed it and after some investigation I found the USERDNSDOMAIN environment variable and I was happy. echo %USERDNSDOMAIN% Until yesterday, when...

Brad Abrams on volatile and MemoryBarrier() . Someone sent this to the team and I couldn’t stop myself from reading it. If you use the double check locking pattern, then most probably you are already aware of the pitfalls in it. Using volatile...

Almost one month after creating my blog I finally found some time to spend one-on-one with Word and wrap up my introduction posting. As you can easily guess I work for Microsoft and I will share with you my thoughts on the craft of software development...