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Process Monitor for Debugging
The Process Monitor looks like a great tool to help in debugging issues and includes a bunch of features from a diverse set of sysinternal utilities such as RegMon, FileMon etc. I think this is the first tool offering to come out since the acquisition Read More...

Posted Thursday, November 09, 2006 10:09 AM by nihitk | 1 Comments

Spot the Bug Contest #1 Solution: The mystery of the Decimal.Parse FormatException
Well - as promised here is the solution for the Spot the Bug (contest?) posting which was correctly answered first by Nat (Congratulations!). The Bug : The following line of code will fail intermittently when executed and most of the time rerunning will Read More...

Posted Saturday, March 26, 2005 10:31 PM by nihitk | 0 Comments

Spot the Bug
Ran into this recently and thought it might be interesting. Can you try and spot the bug and the possible error that can occur with the following lines of code? Decimal randomDoubleAsDecimal() { Random rand = new Random (); return Decimal .Parse(rand.NextDouble().ToString()); Read More...

Posted Sunday, January 23, 2005 12:40 PM by nihitk | 23 Comments

Grads Getting Good Guidance
Joel offers some great tips to Computer Science students (or really anyone in college who is a geek and likes software and programming) who will soon be graduating - very practical advice. In addition, it would be great to see fresh graduates trying to Read More...

Posted Sunday, January 16, 2005 8:55 PM by nihitk | 2 Comments

Are we there yet?
So have we reached the top of the graph predicted by Moore's law ? Seems like it (if not the top, very close to it), especially with respect to performance of a single, lonely processor. Herb Sutter has written a very nice article on how we are reaching Read More...

Posted Friday, December 31, 2004 5:14 PM by nihitk | 0 Comments

Pairwise Pruning
Pairwise Testing is such a cool thing if you ever have to deal with testing a program or an API that is suffering from a test matrix explosion (due to a large number of all permutation / combinations of all involved variables such as Operating Systems, Read More...

Posted Sunday, May 09, 2004 3:22 PM by nihitk | 3 Comments

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