Dan McKinley : March 2006

Please Stop Spamming the Debugger Output

posted Thursday, March 30, 2006 12:23 PM by mcfunley with 0 Comments

When I'm writing a GUI or a multithreaded server application, I make heavy use of OutputDebugString (and various API's that map to it). This is a very useful tool when the act of stepping through an application has side effects that drastically change Read More

Pointless Minesweeper Source Code

posted Wednesday, March 29, 2006 5:33 PM by mcfunley with 0 Comments

The source code for my Pointless Minesweeper Clone can be found here. Enjoy it.The license is BSD (you may know this as the "hey, go nuts" license). Read More

Pointless Minesweeper Clone

posted Sunday, March 26, 2006 9:11 AM by mcfunley with 1 Comments

My roommate, a grizzled veteran of Cornell's CS 211, made an announcement a week or two ago. It was something along the lines of, "gee whiz, I'm glad they didn't make us write minesweeper as a project. It looks impossible." To prove my vast intellectual Read More

Chords for E.M.P.T.Y. by the Clientele

posted Saturday, March 25, 2006 7:04 AM by mcfunley with 1 Comments

I couldn't find any chords for this band anywhere online, so I figured out a few myself. This is E.M.P.T.Y. from Strange Geometry (as of right now someone has an mp3 of it up here). I am leaving out a considerable amount of flourish, which is pretty Read More

Debugger Exercise: Displaying a Function's Return Value

posted Wednesday, March 22, 2006 6:34 PM by mcfunley with 0 Comments

I found myself needing to automatically manipulate the return value of a managed function in release code today. I thought this would make an interesting little writeup. For the purposes of the demonstration, let's use this example program:class Program{ Read More

C# 2.0 Features and the Whims of the Great Magnet

posted Tuesday, March 21, 2006 6:59 PM by mcfunley with 1 Comments

Good mescaline comes on slow. The first hour is all waiting, then about halfway through the second hour you start cursing the creep who burned you because nothing's happening ... and then ZANG!- HST, from Fear and Loathing in Las VegasThis is an only-slightly Read More

Beware the OutOfMemoryException Red Herring

posted Wednesday, March 08, 2006 12:48 PM by mcfunley with 1 Comments

Low memory conditions have a way of executing lightly- or never-tested code paths. Bugs in these paths can sometimes cast a penumbra over the real reason your application is crashing. Worse, the resulting exceptions or crashes are likely to be more Read More

The Russian Doll Approach to Web Services

posted Monday, March 06, 2006 3:07 PM by mcfunley with 2 Comments

Here's an anecdote for the WTF inbox. I assure you this is very real, but I cannot divulge any of the specifics.Some time ago a friend of mine was talking to a web services vendor, who was explaining his versioning scheme. The vendor's approach was to Read More

C++ and VS2005 Deployment PSA

posted Thursday, March 02, 2006 7:04 PM by mcfunley with 0 Comments

This is a straightforward fix, but I couldn't find anything about it anywhere else. I have a handful of old ATL projects that have been upgraded over the years from Visual C++ 6.0, through VS2003 and are now being built using Visual C++ 8. I was trying Read More

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