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June 2006 - Posts

Outta Here Again

I'm off to Europe for a couple of weeks of vacation with the extended family, I'll be back in early July. Have Fun y'all. Read More...
Posted Monday, June 19, 2006 7:24 PM by LarryOsterman | 4 Comments

Best Practices for DllMain

DllMain keeps on popping up as a pain point for developers. Heck, just yesterday we found an old bug where a component was calling CoFreeUnusedLibraries in its DllMain function. So it was really cool that this morning I came in and discovered an email Read More...
Posted Thursday, June 15, 2006 10:15 AM by LarryOsterman | 18 Comments

Critical Driver or Cargo Cult Programming?

I've been self hosting Vista on my laptop since sometime in January. Every Monday morning, without fail, I installed the latest build available from the "main" windows branch, and tried it. There have been good builds and bad builds - the first few were Read More...
Posted Wednesday, June 14, 2006 2:09 PM by LarryOsterman | 36 Comments

Making things go fast on a network, part 3

Now I want to pop the stack up a bit and talk about messages. At their heart, connection oriented protocols are about establishing pipes between senders and receivers - they don't NEED to have semantics beyond that. But applications are different. They Read More...
Posted Tuesday, June 13, 2006 5:10 PM by LarryOsterman | 6 Comments

He's Back (for a little bit)

He's back (sort-of). I've been back from vacation for a 2 weeks but I've been a bad blogger Larry->slaps_wrist(Larry). What's worse is that I'm going to be gone for two more weeks starting next Monday (part of the reason I've not gotten back into the Read More...
Posted Monday, June 12, 2006 3:54 PM by LarryOsterman | 5 Comments
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