Programmers are notoriously bad at creating good user interfaces. How can you tell if your app was designed by a programmer? (Hint: it’s easy).
How do you find the unmanaged COM object that’s being referenced by a .NET object?
I’ve just spent several hours struggling with an annoying Wordpress problem: when I edited a post to make some additions, it suddenly stopped displaying any content. The title, header and footer were still visible, only the post body itself was missing.
After a bit of poking around, I came across this post. It points out the [...]
I’ve been seeing problems recently with fragmented virtual address space. During the lifetime of a process, bits and pieces of memory are allocated throughout the 2GB 32-bit address space to such an extent that large contiguous blocks of free space are no longer available. If anything subsequently requires a large block of memory (like, for [...]
(I had problems with WordPress choking on this long post, so I’ve split it into 2 parts. The first part is here. This is the second part).
VMMap is a new tool from Mark Russinovich et al that’s very useful for diagnosing virtual memory/address space exhaustion issues. I describe it here, and give some information that should help you interpret what it reports.
It’s a well known fact that the financial services industry (where I mean banks, hedge funds, pension providers, fund managers etc) is deeply in love with Excel. But what is it about the Excel ecosystem that makes it so appealing, and how can we move seamlessly to a more robust, maintainable platform?
Using F# to create simple plots of Black-Scholes option prices and greeks using WPF.
It seems that the extremely useful !locks command is broken in 6.11.1.40x, the current and previous release of WinDbg from the debugging tools for Windows.
You’ll get errors like:
0:007> !locks
NTSDEXTS: Unable to resolve ntdll!RTL_CRITICAL_SECTION_DEBUG type
NTSDEXTS: Please check your symbols
The suggested solution seems to be to roll-back to version 6.10.3.233, available from here, or you can just [...]
Well, what are you still doing here, get over to Don Syme’s blog and download it…!
