Don’t make a Rembrandt
I can’t remember where I first heard the terms complexifiers and simplifiers, although it looks like they were originally coined in a blog post by Scott Berkun, but I’ve found them to be more and more useful in recent weeks.
My company is working on a Great New Service™ and we’re trying to finish up the […]
Questions and suggestions
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Month of kernel bugs
It looks like there’s a new Month of Kernel Bugs blog. From the description:
Besides hosting the Month of Kernel Bugs, this blog aims to provide information about kernel-land bugs, hacks and tricks. XNU, Linux… you name it.
You may remember a related project, the Month of Browser Bugs, in which HD Moore from Metasploit posted a […]
New debuggers
Version 6.6.7.5 of the debugging tools has been released. Get ‘em at http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/devtools/debugging/default.mspx. And, Ken has some extra upgrade advice for remote debugging.
Scratch driver
I’ve provided a few code samples in the past, and with any luck, there will be more to come. To that end, I’m taking a page from Raymond and providing a scratch driver and test app for use in our demos. It builds cleanly with 3790.1830 and with the beta 2 WDK; it ought to […]
Day 0 wrap-up
I snuck out of the keynote 10 minutes early and didn’t have to wait long for the bus. What a day! I actually got some coding done, got some reading done, got set up to do the TLC thing tomorrow, and learned a lot, even though the conference is only about 2 hours old, officially.
Now, […]
A minor VS 2005 nitpick
You should never complain about a freebie, right? I just got done converting our usermode Windows code to build with VS 2005. It turns out that Express Edition builds our product quite well, and the SDK has an x64 compiler in it, so other than resource editing, we’re not actually losing much by going with […]
On the topic of annoying blogs
I’m all for hard-hitting commentary, and my wife routinely accuses me of being a pessimist. I love Shakespeare tragedies and I’m even enjoying Crime and Punnishment.
But even I have my limit. And so I ask you: does Mary Jo Foley of Microsoft Watch fame ever say anything nice? Good GOD, I’ve been reading her blog […]
FWA Symposium
I just got a note from the organizer of the Financial Women’s Association Symposium, to which I’m heading tomorrow to participate in a remote workforce panel. I didn’t think this would be how I would finally get my name into Forbes, though!
Mild outage…
My otherwise-excellent virtual server at linode.com apparently died as a result of a buggy host kernel earlier today. They’ve upgraded the host and my box is back online. Aah, technology…