Browse by Tags

All Tags » ramblings   (RSS)
I'm not 30 yet, I'm only 0x2d :)
07 September 09 04:35 PM | ricom | 4 Comments   
A friend of mine pointed out that, in hex, I'm under 30 :) How wonderful! Read More...
Filed under:
Visual Studio: Why is there no 64 bit version? (yet)
10 June 09 08:34 PM | ricom | 78 Comments   
Disclaimer: This is yet another of my trademarked "approximately correct" discussions From time to time customers or partners ask me about our plans to create a 64 bit version of Visual Studio. When is it coming? Why aren’t we making it a priority? Haven’t Read More...
Is Performance a "functional" requirement?
27 August 08 09:57 AM | ricom | 3 Comments   
We had an internal thread on this yesterday, maybe I was a little too glib but here is what I had to say about the topic [edited so it can be read standalone] The original question, “Is performance a functional requirement” is highly unexciting for me. Read More...
Filed under: ,
Celebrating Twenty with a Pint
15 August 08 11:42 AM | ricom | 4 Comments   
No it isn't what you think. :) Today is my 20th anniversary at Microsoft. Wow. 20 years of doing anything is pretty amazing and 20 of this definitely counts as amazing, to me anyway. It's been a lot of fun. I got to celebrate in a very special way. You Read More...
Filed under:
My Last Words to Bill
30 June 08 10:57 AM | ricom | 4 Comments   
We had a little internal yearbook thing you could sign for Bill last week.  This is what I wrote:   Dear Bill, In not too many weeks now I’ll be celebrating my 20th anniversary at Microsoft.  I think I owe you some thanks for these Read More...
Filed under:
Cycles in Computer Science, or Am I Ancient?
05 May 08 10:11 AM | ricom | 12 Comments   
It's been a strange couple of weeks.  No, really. It all started when a friend of mine, let's call him "Desi", posted a question asking about what he should do in his last few months of college.  A reasonable enough question and I Read More...
Filed under:
Sara Ford goes retro
29 February 08 05:51 AM | ricom | 0 Comments   
In honor of the leap year, she's posted a couple of articles I wrote back around 1993 describing things you could do in VC++ 2.0. Oddly enough most of them are still applicable. Cheers Sara Read More...
Programs to Run
20 October 07 06:05 PM | ricom | 3 Comments   
I haven't posted anything "fun" for a while. Here's another of my little parody songs. Based on Sheryl Crow's " Soak Up The Sun " Programs to Run My friend the program lead Can't even code in VB I can't afford his bloat So I'm stuck here fixing his tree Read More...
Filed under:
News About Me
12 July 07 01:23 PM | ricom | 38 Comments   
From time to time things get shuffled around here and I was involved in a recent shuffle that has changed my job yet again. I’ve been working directly on performance in one capacity or another for nearly 5 years now but a few weeks ago I was asked to Read More...
Filed under:
Partly sunny, chance of showers, bring an umbrella
13 June 07 02:23 PM | ricom | 5 Comments   
Everyone knows that my 10 rules of performance are measure, measure, measure... etc. 10 times :) OK, well, if you didn't know, now you do. But does that mean that every time you tell someone about performance problems and/or risks that you should be doing Read More...
Filed under:
Everything I ever needed to know about programming I learned in Gamergarten
06 April 07 09:50 AM | ricom | 6 Comments   
Don't block the user from moving her ship while she fires her laser at the space aliens Don't redraw more of the screen than you have to when the aliens move Make sure the sounds start right away when the buttons are pushed It's better to not have a bonus Read More...
Filed under: ,
Good Advice Scorned
19 January 07 10:04 AM | ricom | 5 Comments   
I thought it might be interesting to start a discussion about what is possibly the number one frustration of the performance architect: What do you do when they won't listen to you ? I'm sure you've all faced this, you lay out the situation, you show Read More...
Filed under:
Five Things About Me
12 January 07 12:38 PM | ricom | 3 Comments   
I guess it's fate: I was blog tagged by both Jeff Beehler and J.D. Meier within hours of one another. So here are my five things you probably didn't know about me (but some of you do). I got my first professional programming job (I was 15 years old) at Read More...
Filed under:
My 18th anniversary at MS
15 August 06 07:18 AM | ricom | 3 Comments   
Today marks 18 years for me at Microsoft. In a little twist of fate, I'll be presenting at our Gamefest conference which is kind of fitting because I got my start programming games for the PET 2001 in Microsoft BASIC (before it was Visual) and 6502 assembly Read More...
Filed under:
Rico's thought for today
28 July 06 10:00 AM | ricom | 2 Comments   
I've said this before but I like it so much I thought I'd post it for posterity :) "Never use the advice of some loudmouth perf expert like me when you could do a nice solid measurement instead." Maybe I'll get it as a tattoo :) Read More...
Filed under: ,
More Posts Next page »

Search

This Blog

Syndication

Page view tracker