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October 2006 - Posts

New Version of the Microsoft PE/COFF Spec

I knew we were working during Whidbey to get the PE/COFF spec updated (the previously available version dated back to, I think, 1998 or so). I noticed that it's now available on MSDN. Not in the place I would have expected, though. In the past it was Read More...
Posted Saturday, October 28, 2006 1:09 AM by ronpih | 0 Comments

New VCBlog post: Andy Rich on Conformance Testing and Breaking Changes

http://blogs.msdn.com/vcblog/archive/2006/10/24/conformance-testing-and-breaking-changes.aspx Andy works on the Visual C++ compiler test team. Read More...
Posted Saturday, October 28, 2006 1:06 AM by ronpih | 1 Comments

23.5 Rules of Thumb for Software Development

Here's a series of videocasts (is that a word) that make up Jim McCarthy's classic talk on 23.5 rules of software development. This was back in the mid-90's and it's amazing how much of what is said sounds like contemporary best practices. I actually Read More...
Posted Thursday, October 26, 2006 10:36 PM by ronpih | 0 Comments

Soma on Channel 9

I haven't watched it yet but our VP has a video up on Channel9. I'll be checking it out tonight. Read More...
Posted Tuesday, October 24, 2006 1:34 PM by ronpih | 0 Comments

Tonight's NWCPP Meeting: Kevin Frei on The Cost of C++ Exception Handling on Windows

Wow. This event will probably be over by the time you read this but I just heard that Kevin Frei is speaking at tonight's Northwest C++ Users Group meeting . The topic will be the cost of exception handling. Kevin is eminently qualified to speak on this Read More...
Posted Wednesday, October 18, 2006 5:28 PM by ronpih | 0 Comments

Kenny Kerr on Longhorn Server Core

Another great post in Kenny Kerr's series, Vista for Deveolopers: Getting Started With Server Core showed up last Friday. Read More...
Posted Tuesday, October 17, 2006 5:25 PM by ronpih | 0 Comments

SteveTei on VC++ Strategy

Steve Teixeira (Current Group Program Manager for VC++) has a nice series of posts ( here , here , and here ) on VC++ Strategy. He is asking for and responding to feedback so if you'd like your voice to be heard as VC++ refines its strategy for the future, Read More...
Posted Monday, October 16, 2006 8:40 AM by ronpih | 0 Comments
 
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