Monthly Archives: October 2013

Get inside

Posted on October 30, 2013 by Clive Tong

Inside Windows Debugging: Practical Debugging and Tracing Strategies by Tarik Soulami Quite simply, this is the best computing related book I have ever read. I’m interested in the low level details of the kernel, managed and unmanaged code and design … Continue reading →

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Not essential, but useful anyway

Posted on October 28, 2013 by Clive Tong

PhoneGap Essentials: Building Cross-Platform Mobile Apps by John M. Wargo I wish that I’d read this book a long time ago, before I had a fairly good understanding of PhoneGap. That said, part one of the book, which gives a … Continue reading →

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To the cloud

Posted on October 25, 2013 by Clive Tong

Azure in Action by Chris Hay and Brian H Prince This is a really good introduction to Azure and was just what I needed to get up to speed in this area. I wanted a book that would tell me … Continue reading →

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Debug the debugger

Posted on October 21, 2013 by Clive Tong

It came up at work the other day, and so I guess it’s worth writing down here. Using a debugger on a process affects the process you are debugging. The target process, of course, can ask whether there is a … Continue reading →

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I didn’t know that!

Posted on October 14, 2013 by Clive Tong

At work this week, I noticed and then learned a couple of things that I hadn’t realised before. We are doing some work on making our in-process COM component report errors back to us when something goes wrong. We use … Continue reading →

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It’s not what you do, it’s the way that you use it

Posted on October 10, 2013 by Clive Tong

Sometimes a really simple feature can lead to quite unexpected consequences. In this case I’m thinking of the XMLHttpRequest object and its Open method which allows a client to make a HTTP request to a server. JavaScript runs in a … Continue reading →

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Something for the weekend

Posted on October 4, 2013 by Clive Tong

Here are various bits and pieces I have been reading recently. This talk from Going Native 2013, on the implementation of Async in C++, was really interesting. The presenter talks about the implementation which currently uses side-stacks, 4KB stack segments … Continue reading →

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When you leave, I leave too

Posted on October 2, 2013 by Clive Tong

There was discussion at work about assembly unloading. In order to get the CLR to unload an assembly, you need to use a fresh AppDomain and only load a given type into that AppDomain. When the AppDomain is unloaded, the … Continue reading →

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