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Interesting iPod lawsuit
While most of the monopoly/anti-trust stuff that gets so easily thrown around is without merit, it's...
Author: Matt Pietrek Date: 01/05/2005
Where have I been? (And other random mutterings)
Yes, it's been awhile since my last blog entry. As you've probably read from other Whidbey grunts,...
Author: Matt Pietrek Date: 01/03/2005
Death to "int" (and its variations)
I've been cleaning up a bunch of code lately (including warnings from our forthcoming static...
Author: Matt Pietrek Date: 11/12/2004
Part II of "Breathing more life into an "old" PC"
Last week I mentioned ordering a CPU upgrade for my main home machine, taking it from 1.4GHz up to...
Author: Matt Pietrek Date: 10/26/2004
The death of 3rd party system tools?
A co-worker recently asked me what I thought about the upcoming hardening of the x64 versions of...
Author: Matt Pietrek Date: 10/21/2004
Breathing more life into an "old" PC
As part of this weekend's fun improving the performance of my aging 3-year old machine at home, I...
Author: Matt Pietrek Date: 10/18/2004
Are your IDE drives slower than they used to be?
This weekend during an unexpected burst of energy, I tackled the problem of my IDE drive which...
Author: Matt Pietrek Date: 10/18/2004
Mike Stall on "Why can't I step through my IL?"
Back when I was first learning .NET, I was always wondering why there wasn't an IL debugger. It...
Author: Matt Pietrek Date: 10/04/2004
Intro to Event Tracing For Windows
It’s been awhile since I’ve had a technically focused blog post, so I’m rectifying that today....
Author: Matt Pietrek Date: 09/16/2004
She said "Of course I will"
And with a panoramic sunset view of Seattle and the Eastside before us, I slipped the engagement...
Author: Matt Pietrek Date: 09/08/2004
Charles Petzold on book publishing and PC Magazine
There's an interesting interview with Charles Petzold up on the DotNetRocks site (audio stream:...
Author: Matt Pietrek Date: 08/25/2004
Reading another process’s environment
A reader of my Under The Hood columns writes: I know the PID of a process, I need to get the...
Author: Matt Pietrek Date: 08/25/2004
My first 'MZ' email!
Just moments ago, I got my first email from Mark Zbikowski. What an honor! (OK, so it was just a...
Author: Matt Pietrek Date: 08/17/2004
Debugging application startup when you don't directly launch the app
Out of the blue yesterday an internal MS architect called me in my office (which rarely happens.)...
Author: Matt Pietrek Date: 08/12/2004
Backyard fun
A fun day yesterday. Tim Ewald was in town with his wife Sarah and their new son, so we set up a...
Author: Matt Pietrek Date: 08/09/2004
"The latte, it starts to smell after awhile"
So says our illustrious PM Eric, who's famous for not discarding the used styrofoam cups in his...
Author: Matt Pietrek Date: 08/05/2004
Cool Whidbey debugger feature: Merge Environment
If your app depends on a particular set of environment variables, it could sometimes be a real pain...
Author: Matt Pietrek Date: 08/04/2004
Writing code is the easy part
Having been at Microsoft for a little over four months now, I've started to get into the swing of...
Author: Matt Pietrek Date: 08/04/2004
Michael Geary returns
What a surprise to find Mike Geary commenting on my C# Iterators blog entry. Back when I was a young...
Author: Matt Pietrek Date: 08/03/2004
NuMega – Where are they now?
One of the best experiences of my programming career was during the golden years of NuMega. Roughly...
Author: Matt Pietrek Date: 07/30/2004
Writing a successful programming book
Chris Sells expounds on What Makes A Book Successful. Be sure to read the comments for my thoughts...
Author: Matt Pietrek Date: 07/28/2004
Your suggestion(s) needed
It's been awhile since I wrote for MSDN magazine. Now that I work for Microsoft, the whole financial...
Author: Matt Pietrek Date: 07/27/2004
Fun with Iterators and state machines
I recently was given a piece of C# code with statements like: yield return value; and yield break;...
Author: Matt Pietrek Date: 07/26/2004
Set Next Statement is your friend
Yesterday I identified a symbol loading issue with the current internal drop of the VS debugger....
Author: Matt Pietrek Date: 07/14/2004
Revenge of the laptop
While I'm generally in favor of cheap technology for the masses, I've recently been hit by the curse...
Author: Matt Pietrek Date: 07/11/2004
Where's Dad?
I was lucky enough to have many friends and family converge on my house this weekend. Somewhere...
Author: Matt Pietrek Date: 07/11/2004
Thoughts on writing an IL Disassembler
I’m a big fan of writing your own version of tools, even if there’s already an existing...
Author: Matt Pietrek Date: 07/09/2004
Real Rock still lives!
It's sad, but lately a lot of the music I love is released overseas first. Thanks to the internet, I...
Author: Matt Pietrek Date: 07/08/2004