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Eric Jarvi

the bug stops here

January 2005 - Posts

redirecting stderr to stdout on the command line
2>&1 is how you redirect stderr to stdout on the command line in windows, when I inevitably have to do this again sometime, maybe this will help me remember. :) [ XP redirection docs , technet docs ] Read More...
mediocre messages and broken road signs
Next time I find a user message bug, I think I'll remember this picture of a Tennessee road sign: http://broken.typepad.com/b/2005/01/permitted_truck.html Read More...
The Language of Biology
Check this out, a language for modeling biological processes: http://research.microsoft.com/displayArticle.aspx?id=711 I'm a fan of biomimicry and I think this idea of using a computer language for modeling biology is pretty cool. In fact I sometimes Read More...
another team system "chat" double header coming up
VSTS Enterprise Dev and Test Tools Public Chat Join the Visual Studio Team System's Enterprise Developer and Test Tools team at Microsoft in an online MSDN Chat! We will be focusing on these tools: Static Code Analysis (FxCop, PREfast), Dynamic Analysis Read More...
P/Invoke help
Came across this Wiki community site for pinvoke signatures: http://www.pinvoke.net/ It's even got RSS feeds: http://www.pinvoke.net/rssface.aspx?namespace=misc " Read More...
Benefit concert January 15, 2005 for local teen with severe cerebral palsy
If you live in the area, here is an opportunity to help a local teen (if you're interested in helping leave me a comment and I'll get you the name and phone number of someone you can contact for more information) "Jacob Chesley, a senior in the Kent School Read More...
writing code that doesn't require admin privileges
An internal email discussion on how to help people write code that doesn't require administrative privileges yielded the following links, hope somebody out there finds this helpful: Top Ten Tips for Secure Testing (#1 tip - test as non-admin): http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/driver/security/test-tips.mspx Read More...
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