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March 2004 - Posts

Service Packs galore!

For anyone who does not subscribe to the Thundermain's excellent Microsoft Download Center feed, and who has also missed the announcements elsewhere, the following service packs have been released in the past week or so: Windows XP SP2 RC1 (beta) Read More
posted Tuesday, March 30, 2004 3:03 PM by pdbartlett | 0 Comments
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Troubleshooting tools

As I promised in one of the comments on my last post, I've produced a list of tools I've come across that are especially useful in various "troubleshooting" scenarios. Enjoy! (Well, maybe not enjoy as such, but hopefully one day they might Read More
posted Tuesday, March 30, 2004 12:08 PM by pdbartlett | 0 Comments
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IISLockdown and URLScan log

Darrell blogs about where URLScan logs its "failures" and points out that this is a very good place to start looking if you are running a "locked down" server and get *any* IIS-related problems. There are a few little known but extremely useful logs Read More
posted Thursday, March 25, 2004 9:13 AM by pdbartlett | 2 Comments
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Where in the world have YOU been?

Someone mentioned this a couple of days ago (sorry, I've forgotten who exactly...), and I've just got around to trying it out: It's quite humbling to see just how little of the world I've visited. You can generate your own map by clicking here. Read More
posted Wednesday, March 24, 2004 5:40 PM by pdbartlett | 2 Comments
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Off to Reading...

I've decided to go to one of the Security "MSDN Days" at Microsoft's Reading Campus here in the UK next month. Now I realise that this isn't a big event, but as I've said before I don't get out much :( This did, though, seem the perfect excuse Read More
posted Wednesday, March 24, 2004 1:05 PM by pdbartlett | 3 Comments
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Bruce Eckel on types

In the next installment in the "Bruce Eckel on..." series he expands on the concepts that arose when he discussed generics. Definitely worth a read if you want to see through some of the language bigotry that tends to permeate such discussions.. Read More
posted Tuesday, March 23, 2004 9:01 AM by pdbartlett | 0 Comments
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More WikiStuff

Have just been reading the FlexWiki wiki in a bit more detail (and corrected a previous post) and have found out a whole bunch of stuff such as: WikiNewsletter ExternalWikis (a topic which acts as a kind of #include file for all your @externalWiki=url Read More
posted Friday, March 19, 2004 1:35 PM by pdbartlett | 1 Comments
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Who's blogging who (and what)?

Just came across BlogPulse, which looks as if it might be quite interesting. It covers the blogosphere at large rather than just techie blogs, but that's not necessarily a bad thing... Read More
posted Friday, March 19, 2004 10:51 AM by pdbartlett | 0 Comments
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NUnitForms

A while back I posted about unit testing the data and presentation layers, and noted the lack of any open-source tools for "rich" clients. Now Randy has blogged about the presentation side of this, and mentions NUnitForms for WinForms at least. Read More
posted Wednesday, March 17, 2004 4:34 PM by pdbartlett | 2 Comments
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SOAWiki

James Avery kills two birds with one stone and creates an SOAWiki. BTW, did I mention that I happen to think FlexWiki is rather good... Read More
posted Wednesday, March 17, 2004 9:07 AM by pdbartlett | 2 Comments
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Legacy code patterns

[Via JC]: http://www.agcs.com/supportv2/techpapers/patterns/papers/respat.htm As the "veteran" of 2 monolithic legacy systems, and two product "ports" (not sure if MFC->ASP counts as a "port" in the strictest sense) far too many of these ring true, Read More
posted Monday, March 15, 2004 12:55 PM by pdbartlett | 2 Comments
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Was macht's?

A couple of events recently have reminded me that I haven't posted anything "personal" for a while, so here goes. Anyone who reads solely for techie stuff should skip a couple of paragraphs 'til I get onto the PDA bit... <non-techie> Read More
posted Friday, March 12, 2004 12:21 PM by pdbartlett | 3 Comments
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FlexWiki and Doxygen/NDoc

[UPDATE: I have now re-read the FAQ (properly this time ;) and found the "correct" answers to the problems. You can use a two double quotes before and after the text to prevent any default formatting, including the conversion of CamelCasedWords Read More
posted Friday, March 12, 2004 8:53 AM by pdbartlett | 4 Comments
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Bruce Eckel on Java Generics

Bruce finds that JDK 1.5 generics aren't quite as generic as he'd hoped - i.e. only really solve the "casting problem" for containers. I know that C# generics are also very different from C++ templates, but I must look out that Brad Abrams summary Read More
posted Thursday, March 11, 2004 9:06 AM by pdbartlett | 1 Comments
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Genghis v0.5 released

Via Chris Sells: After much delay (man, this Microsoft gig keeps a person busy), I'm happy to announce Genghis v0.5 Read More
posted Wednesday, March 10, 2004 9:40 AM by pdbartlett | 0 Comments
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Is "agile C++" an oxymoron?

Is anyone "out there" doing TDD, or any other agile or eXtreme techniques, with unmanaged C++? I've recently been trying to do things the "test first" way, but am finding it extremely difficult. Part of it might be because most of the code is "framework" Read More
posted Tuesday, March 09, 2004 12:46 PM by pdbartlett | 3 Comments
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The Joy of Flex(Wiki)

I'm currently trying to improve the documentation on some "useful practice" code that I've been working on, and decided to give FlexWiki a try, so that I could also capture feedback, functionality requests, etc., etc. from the rest of the team. Read More
posted Friday, March 05, 2004 3:55 PM by pdbartlett | 5 Comments
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A few miscellaneous .NET-related links

Scott Hanselman posts about some little known features of NDoc that I've been intending to search out for quite a while now. Mark Levison laments missing pieces in the .NET framework, so I point him at Genghis. Chris Taylor talks Read More
posted Friday, March 05, 2004 8:58 AM by pdbartlett | 1 Comments
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Another blog "community"...ThoughtBlogs

Via Steve Eichert:I've just came across a community of ThoughtWorks bloggers.  SubscribedLikewise. Read More
posted Thursday, March 04, 2004 1:14 PM by pdbartlett | 0 Comments
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Sad, but true

And amusing: Every Language War Ever. [via Eric Lippert] Read More
posted Monday, March 01, 2004 9:44 AM by pdbartlett | 0 Comments
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More command-line tips

Darren Niemke discovers FindStr.exe an egrep-like tool [via Kent Tegels].If I'd known about this I might never have written jsgrep... Read More
posted Monday, March 01, 2004 9:29 AM by pdbartlett | 0 Comments
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