September 2010
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Practical Testing: 29 - Fixing the timer wheel
Previously on “Practical Testing”… I’m writing a timer wheel which matches the interface used by my timer queue. This new implementation is designed for a particular usage scenario with the intention of trading … -
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DevPartner Studio 10
My previous rant about DevPartner Studio (and especially the BoundsChecker portion of it) resulted in several emails from guys on the development team and a call from product owner at MicroFocus. They pointed me towards the latest … -
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Practical Testing: 30 - Reducing contention
Previously on “Practical Testing”… I’ve been looking at the performance of the timer system that I developed and have built a more specialised and higher performance timer system which is more suitable for some high … -
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6.3 is coming...
This evening I kicked off the acceptance tests for version 6.3 of the example servers that ship with The Server Framework; they’ll probably take most of the weekend to run, if I’m lucky. The unit tests for all the libraries have … -
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Things I hate about Visual Studio 2010 - part 'today'
I tend to work with lots of solutions at once. I’m often building code for clients, building and testing new example servers for The Server Framework and running lots of copies of various versions of Visual Studio at once. Now, if I … -
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The design implications of FILE_SKIP_COMPLETION_PORT_ON_SUCCESS and the Vista overlapped I/O change, reprise
Back in April I was talking about how the fact that 6.2 allowed you to enable FILE_SKIP_COMPLETION_PORT_ON_SUCCESS meant that some server designs might start to experience recursion that they previously didn’t experience. During the …
