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October 2006 - Posts

Don't block your UI thread
Even in the world of .NET, some things never change. You block your UI thread with a Sleep(10000) and wonder why it's not painting properly? Patient: "It hurts when I do this" Physiotherapist: "Well don't do it then" Do not block your UI thread in a non-UI Read More...
Posted: Friday, October 27, 2006 4:37 PM by dougste | 1 Comments
New article on debugging .NET memory issues
The latest MSDN Magazine is now published and there is a great article about debugging .NET memory issues: " CLR Inside Out: Investigating Memory Issues ". I've added this to my list of .NET debugging resources which I have now changed from a blog post Read More...
Posted: Tuesday, October 17, 2006 2:46 PM by dougste | 0 Comments
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Warning: this coffee may be hot
I found this article about Google's new "code search" tool rather amusing. In a manner that reminds me of the fabled warning that gets printed on some coffee cups, helpfully advising consumers that the coffee they have just bought might be hot ('hmm, Read More...
Posted: Tuesday, October 10, 2006 10:39 AM by dougste | 2 Comments
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Is there a timewarp between here and redmond?
The reason I wonder that is because our dev teams seem to be pumping stuff out the door so fast at the moment that I think they must have a special 27 hour working day unlike the 8 or 10 that the rest of us have. In no particular order we have... 1) Visual Read More...
Posted: Friday, October 06, 2006 11:13 AM by dougste | 2 Comments
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