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Wednesday, July 22, 2009 4:24 AM

2008 DDC slides now available to all!

Got an email late last week stating that the material I and others presented at the 2008 Driver Developers Conference (which Dieter and James want renamed to Driver Development and Test Conference- more power to that idea!) is now available here . The
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Thursday, June 25, 2009 7:15 PM

He’s Gone

It has been a tough week, and a busy one.  I’m getting ready to leave on a vacation, and trying to get all those last-minute things done.  While my last post discussed the genesis of what I call the Configuration Agent and the WDF QA Universal
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Thursday, June 18, 2009 1:57 PM

Crazy is as crazy does

When I was an undergraduate at CalTech , my student residence - Ricketts House - had a tradition where we relieved some of the tedium and stress of the annual election for house officers [President, Vice-President, Social Vice-President, Secretary and
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Saturday, April 18, 2009 9:24 AM

Exceptions rule!

I’ve decided to revert to storytelling mode today.  So sit right back and you’ll hear a tale, a tale of my fateful trip (or click something useful- you’re the one deciding, and I’m the one typing to satisfy whatever inner demon has driven me to do
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Thursday, March 12, 2009 6:36 AM

Using C++ in a KMDF driver part 1- a pattern for using contexts as objects

This is an article I’ve started probably close to a dozen times since I started this blog, but never published.  In part because of all the heat the topic of using C++ in the kernel generates, and the rest perhaps because of my reaction to that heat.
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Thursday, March 12, 2009 4:30 AM

Automated Jobs and Library Jobs

I received an IM late yesterday evening (my time) from “James” (via the Web) asking what the difference is between an automated job and a library job. Unfortunately, I wasn’t around to answer it (I started work about 2 AM PDT today, and the IM was from
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Thursday, January 22, 2009 11:46 PM

Well, yes and no...

I got involved (probably quite foolishly) in a discussion on the NTDEV mailing list that really wasn't much of my business yesterday, but I thought I'd expand a bit on my thoughts there, anyway. It probably sounds in one of my first posts there that I'm
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Wednesday, November 12, 2008 11:18 AM

Adaptive Fault Injection

One of the topics I covered in Ilias ' and my joint presentation at WinHEC this year was new requirements coming for getting a WHQL signature for drivers using KMDF (UMDF as well, but this discussion doesn't currently apply to them).  One part of
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Monday, September 29, 2008 6:21 AM

DDC starts in less than an hour

Plenty of good stuff for today- begin with Eliyas and Peter going over what's new in WDF for Windows 7 (or as we prefer to think of it WDF 1.9, since much of it also works all the back to Windows 2000 [KMDF] or Windows XP [UMDF]).  It continues later
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Wednesday, September 10, 2008 9:23 PM

Looking Ahead- Conferences!

Since I noticed Patrick has spilled the beans [just before the second question], I might as well cover this topic while I wait for my dinner to bake [I eschew microwave ovens these days- just seems better to let it cook the old-fashioned- if early-to-mid-twentieth
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Sunday, May 25, 2008 3:06 PM

Passion and Persistence

Well, it's the Memorial Day weekend here in Redmond, and I am in my office working for the second of the three days of the weekend.  Just can't stay away. Why? Because for months now I have been trying to improve the efficiency of our team's automated
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Friday, May 23, 2008 5:31 PM

The Forever Wait

Many thanks to Patrick for this reminder about another practice an SDET should avoid (actually, most SDE's should, as well- but they have their own masters and I'll leave that job to them). Not that it's easy to pick the "right" amount of time. In this
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Friday, May 09, 2008 5:41 PM

Why SDETS should be the most fastidious and paranoid coders in existence

Well, to follow up some more on my adventures in test code maintenance, I bring you a case study. As I whittled away at the 100+ PFD warnings I mentioned in my previous article , I did my paranoid best to look for dubious code above and beyond what PFD
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Wednesday, May 07, 2008 9:00 AM

Reaping the Benefits of Static Analysis Tools

Our team has a huge amount of legacy test driver code, much of it rather old, and originally created by somewhat less experienced developers. I continually find myself going back and performing maintenance on that code, and as I've noted previously- Static
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Thursday, April 17, 2008 8:04 AM

The light at the end of the WDF 1.7 tunnel

I know people want to know about this, but firm dates still prove elusive.  My best guess is today or tomorrow at this point. Basically we're trying to put an interim package up that satisfies everyone and isn't going to cause us foreseeable problems
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