Vista performance (or lack of)
I just installed the Beta 2 of Vista on one of my dev boxes. It used to be my primary development box until I got a bright shiny new one last year. About t...
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Back from vacation
After a couple of weeks of vacation, I came back to the office to find my old development book DOA. It was worse than a Blue Screen, it was a black screen w...
Dates are not numbers
One of the other developers that I work with had a question about inserting some date values into a SQL Server database. The code in question is doing a bat...
Hidden gotcha in FreeAndNil()
Time to go memory leak hunting in my service. I’m using AutomatedQA‘s AQTime 4, a really cool tool. I’ve used it’s profiling features in the past, but not th...
Poor man’s guide to memory usage tracking
I have a service and I need to make sure that it doesn’t have a memory leak after running for a sustained length of time. I’m doing all the good stuff in co...