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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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Friday, April 11, 2008 3:40 PM

Now for a different UMDF Coinstaller story...

This one can never affect you, so your blood pressure can start easing now.  It's just been a while since I tried to put on my "war stories" hat and tried tellin' one of them tales... In the Beginning was... the need to make sure drivers
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Thursday, April 03, 2008 8:15 AM

A New Target Date For WDF 1.7!

As noted in the previous post (among others) , I've not been saying anything about when WDF 1.7 will reappear for all those eager to begin using it, biding my time and waiting for a date that sounds achievable and has been given to a customer from our
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Monday, March 10, 2008 7:48 AM

The Good, The Bad and The Rest of Us...

Well, the recent problem with KMDF 1.7 failing to install on Vista RTM was instructive for me on many fronts, so I thought I'd share various random thoughts that arose from the experience. It's good to have backup.  As I mentioned on my personal
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Saturday, February 23, 2008 9:02 AM

Fire drill!

Our coinstallers are incredibly complex, as you may have been getting an inkling of if you've been following this subject (that probably means I'm talking to myself again, but I'll post anyway). Now in theory the way a piece of software goes out of here
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Friday, February 08, 2008 12:05 PM

Why You'll Never See a Sample From Me...

I noticed yesterday that Peter and Patrick are trading comments and thoughts on coding styles . So I'll come out of my cage and admit I am the consummate iconoclast on most issues of style. When I review code, I make comments about logic, out-and-out
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Tuesday, February 05, 2008 8:51 AM

The Gump Factor

"Stupid is as stupid does"- folksy wisdom or just a trite phrase?. Many entries I write are in the spirit of the moment, and I take pains to be honest about the associated emotions, so my most recent posts may seem a bit over-wrought. No need to pay that
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Thursday, January 31, 2008 3:06 PM

Papa's "Wall of Dumb"

If memory serves correctly, always an iffy thing with us old fogies, Chloe Sullivan (on "Smallville") maintained a "Wall of Weird" covering all the strange events in her benighted hometown. So Papa's decided to inaugurate his "Wall
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