Todd's Blog : Personal

High Memory is Relative

Toddca — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 04:42:00 GMT

Like most folks I customize my computer to fit my needs. I apply a myriad of registry settings, applications, utilities, and adjustments to my machine to get the environment just the way I like. One item I always seem to change is the buffer height of my command prompt. I find it is useful to increase this buffer when I am running commands that have a ton of output or when I am debugging an application with a command line debugger. Rather than have the text just flow off the buffer I typically increase te Height buffer to the max, 9999. When doing so you may run across one of the most useless messages you may come across in Windows.

WARNING: Screen buffer size will require 1 MB of memory per window.

Obviously the guy or gal that wrote this message has not looked at the memory consumption of Outlook 2007.:-) The message actually goes way back. I remember filing a bug, which was subsequently rejected, on this dialog when Windows 2000 was still in Beta. As far as I can tell it is a holdover from the days when the premier operating system around was known simply as NT. As best as I can figure it was put into the OS around the NT 3.x days however if anyone is still running those version and can confirm or deny I would love to know. But here it is in Windows Vista still alive and kickin.

Moving To SharePoint

Toddca — Tue, 29 May 2007 00:46:00 GMT

Since coming to Developer Support in 2003 I have been working with ASP.NET and IIS. 4 years in any group at Microsoft is a good stint and it was time that I moved on. Because I love working with .Net and web technologies SharePoint seemed like a likely choice. Given SharePoint's huge popularity I felt this provided me with an opportunity to learn a technology that was here to stay and which would only get larger. As a platform there is just a ton that you can do with SharePoint and since it is built on top of ASP.NET I am not totally in the woods when it comes to learning this new product.

So going forward my blogs will be more SharePointy in focus and hopefully (fingers crossed) more frequent and (again fingers crossed) as technically accurate and spelling and grammar error free as possible.

I have been Tagged

Toddca — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 21:30:00 GMT

Carlo was kind enough to include me in his recent "tagging" activity.

So here are 5 things you probably don't know about me:

I recently graduated from SMU with a masters in software engineering.
I own an XBOX but I cannot play it for more than 15 min at a time without getting violently ill.
My family Veronica, Garrett & Grace are the most important things in my life.
I totally love my job. Yea that is corney but true. When I was in high school and working on my undergarduate I always wanted to find something I could do with my life that was rewarding, paid a good salary and that I could work at for hours, days, and years and never get board. Found IT!
I live in really hot Texas. I am totally jazzed though about this summer because we decided to finally build a pool.

Looking around at how I got tagged I find that most of my virtual friends have already been tagged...what a bummer.

I'm Back!

Toddca — Tue, 05 Sep 2006 23:37:00 GMT

Today I am back from a 6 month project working on NGIM (Next Generation Incident Management). It is Microsoft's next version of its technical support tool used by Commercial Technical Support personal globally to work and track customer issues.

Look for me to start picking up the pace of my blogging again as I get submersed on what is going on with the ASP.NET business again.

Its good to be home.

Personal Data

Toddca — Wed, 27 Apr 2005 16:58:00 GMT

I have worked for Microsoft for a little over 8 years. My current role is as a Senior Escalation Engineer in the Developer Support Internet Escalation Services group working on ASP.NET. My daily activities usually involve debugging ASP.NET applications that have gone bad.

My blogs on this site will primarily focus on coding and debugging ASP.NET. As I am always in a learning mode I hope to use this site as a way to share some of these learnings with the community.