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May 2008 - Posts

Opening a Crash Dump File (Automating Crash Dump Analysis Part 1)

So let's assume for the moment that you have a collection of crash dump files from your team's application. These files may be generated from your stress tests, betas, etc. But where they come from really isn't important, what is important is that we Read More...
Posted Tuesday, May 27, 2008 9:20 AM by joshpoley | 3 Comments
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Prolific Usage of MiniDumpWriteDump (Automating Crash Dump Analysis Part 0)

As a precursor to a series on programmatically querying crash dump files, I wanted to first talk about the MiniDumpWriteDump function. You don't necessarily need to wait for your application to crash in order to generate a memory dump. As soon as you Read More...
Posted Monday, May 19, 2008 8:27 AM by joshpoley | 3 Comments
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New Old Group

Just a quick note to let you all know that I moved back over to the Xbox platform team today (the operating system and such). I will be fulfilling a different role, but it will be interesting to see how much of my old responsibilities cascade down to Read More...
Posted Monday, May 19, 2008 8:25 AM by joshpoley | 0 Comments
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Résumé Tip: Don't turn on revision tracking

At one point, I ran across a résumé (in Word format) which had revision tracking turned on. It probably wasn't the best move on the candidate's part because I was able to see all the changes he had made, which included the removal of certain key technologies Read More...
Posted Wednesday, May 14, 2008 8:13 AM by joshpoley | 0 Comments
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Automating Large Image Conversion with Photoshop

So fairly recently, I've merged my fascination with extremely large images with my fascination of fractals. The output of which was a handful of BMP files, some of which happen to be 18000 by 18000 pixels. To give you some perspective, that’s a 324 megapixels Read More...
Posted Monday, May 12, 2008 10:28 AM by joshpoley | 0 Comments
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You Don't Need a Zune to use the Zune Software (aka "yet another free media player")

With the release of version 2.5 of the Zune software, I thought I would point out a fairly obvious, but not widely know, fact. Anybody can use the Zune software to manage and play their media files on the PC. You don't need a Zune device in order to take Read More...
Posted Tuesday, May 06, 2008 8:29 AM by joshpoley | 1 Comments
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Colossal Handle Leak

So I was un-installing an application (which I won't name) and just happened to notice a rather large handle count in Task Manager. Now, most applications which leak handles will consume on the order of several thousand handles, but this program (which Read More...
Posted Monday, May 05, 2008 10:07 AM by joshpoley | 0 Comments
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