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August 2008 - Posts

Security Tools: Codenomicon

About three years ago, when the Xbox 360 was getting close to launching, we went through a security pass of the audio and photo playback capabilities. One of the tools that was recommended to us by another employee was the Codenomicon suite of test files Read More...
Posted Tuesday, August 26, 2008 2:58 PM by joshpoley | 0 Comments
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Bad Error Messages: "Operation Failed"

Here is an error message from a Microsoft product that falls into the completely useless category. It provides the user with absolutely no information about what failed and what to do to fix it. At the very least, it could have had some cryptic error Read More...
Posted Tuesday, August 26, 2008 8:29 AM by joshpoley | 0 Comments
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Bad UI that completely prevents the application's existence from being useful

Maybe I'm just getting more bitter with old age, but it seems that lately, applications tend to piss me off more frequently. Today's "oh, I just want to smash my monitor in" moment comes from my RSS reader which decided to display a popup over the news/blog Read More...
Posted Wednesday, August 13, 2008 3:36 PM by joshpoley | 0 Comments
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Developer Tip: Add a blank macro so testers can inject code

While I was working on writing some API tests for a module that was being integrated into the Xbox Dashboard application, there was some rework to the class that happened in the middle process. In doing so, the developer decided to make a bunch of the Read More...
Posted Monday, August 11, 2008 9:39 AM by joshpoley | 0 Comments
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