July 2006
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CLR thread pool woes
Joe Duffy has written an interesting piece over on “Generalities & Details: Adventures in the High-tech Underbelly” about problems with the CLR thread pool. Joe’s a program manager on the CLR team at Microsoft, so he … -
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Deadlock detection tool design change for Vista?
It seems that Vista contains lots of interesting new Win32 API calls and some of these provide built in support for deadlock detection… I guess my deadlock detection tool can operate differently on Vista then… -
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No, this recent activity doesn't mean that normal service is about to resume
I just realised that I hadn’t posted to here in two months. As I said a while back, my head is not really in the right space for me to be as effective, or interested, in my technical stuff at present. I’m finding it very hard to … -
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Nerd in a cave
This is something that anyone living with a geek really needs to understand. I find it interesting that Rands has his set patterns of behaviour for getting into The Zone in the mornings. I’m very much a creature of habit and I … -
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Something that has helped
It’s been a difficult few months for me recently. One of the things that has helped a lot was something that, thankfully, I discovered relatively quickly and have since refined somewhat. The refined version sounds very simple; …
