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January 2008 - Posts

Organizing My Favorites (Dewey Style)

I currently have around 900 browser favorites/bookmarks saved and my initial "organization" scheme grew amorphously into an unwieldy beast which made it extremely difficult to find and quickly access what I was looking for. After becoming overly frustrated Read More...
Posted Tuesday, January 29, 2008 8:50 AM by joshpoley | 1 Comments
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Custom Debugger Auto-Expansion Tips

There is a fair amount of existing information (plus the official “ EEAddIn ” sample) on the subject of adding custom tool tips when hovering over various data types in the debugger. But lately I’ve run across a bunch of people who have never heard of Read More...
Posted Thursday, January 24, 2008 8:19 AM by joshpoley | 0 Comments
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Zune == 1337 + 1

For all you music fans, we just launched an updated Zune player, which you can either get from Microsoft Update, or directly from the Zune site: http://www.zune.net/en-us/products/zunesoftware/download.htm And if you haven’t seen it yet, we are offering Read More...
Posted Wednesday, January 23, 2008 8:40 AM by joshpoley | 2 Comments
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Running JScript in a CMD File

I do a lot of work from a command shell and this is a little hack that I threw together to avoid having to type out "cscript" every time I wanted to run some specific JScript (aka JavaScript) file. Using some arcane aspects of the two languages, it is Read More...
Posted Tuesday, January 15, 2008 8:32 AM by joshpoley | 2 Comments
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Testing Your PDB Files

Very little attention is often applied to PDB files, but if you do ship them to customers, then you will want to ensure they don't contain more information than is necessary. The debugging information stored here can be used to reverse engineer or attack Read More...
Posted Thursday, January 10, 2008 9:52 AM by joshpoley | 0 Comments
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There Be HRESULTs Here

I've often found that searching for and browsing through the various standard HRESULT error codes can be quite painful as they are spread through many different header files. To make my life easier I've written a tool to grovel through all the header Read More...
Posted Tuesday, January 08, 2008 11:33 AM by joshpoley | 0 Comments
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Google’s Chart API

Throughout the software development cycle there is a wide array of areas where you need to generate various reports which include nifty looking charts. Whether you are generating performance reports, bug trends, tracking memory or CPU utilization, or Read More...
Posted Monday, January 07, 2008 7:49 AM by joshpoley | 0 Comments
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Social Experiment

So I ran across Michael's post about being " Don't Known " on LinkedIn, which prompted me to try an experiment: I went and invited Michael into my network just to see if he would accept or not based on the extremely minor interaction we had: he referenced Read More...
Posted Saturday, January 05, 2008 8:31 PM by joshpoley | 1 Comments
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Leak Tracking with PowerShell

One of my holiday tasks was to learn some PowerShell . While reading/skimming through a book on the subject, I decided to create a quick script which would track memory utilization for a given application. In the past I've used a stand-alone application Read More...
Posted Friday, January 04, 2008 8:11 AM by joshpoley | 1 Comments
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WinDbg’s Hidden Tools

If you install WinDbg ( http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/devtools/debugging/default.mspx ), you also get a handful of additional command line tools which aren’t necessarily very visible. Some of them are just console versions of the kernel debugger (such Read More...
Posted Wednesday, January 02, 2008 11:13 AM by joshpoley | 0 Comments
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