Monthly Archives: June 2005

Yesterday, I came across this post by Jomo Fisher about an interview question he’s considering. The goal is to implement a symbol recognition algorithm. Continue reading →

MSDN Nuggets Don’t have the time to read a 10-page how-to article or watch a full length webcast? Try an MSDN Nugget, a webcast that takes you step-by-step to discovering new functionality or exploring a hot developer topic, all in 10-15 minutes. View them online or download for later reference. http://www.microsoft.com/uk/msdn/events/nuggets.aspx The few I’ve watched so far were “not lame.”

Junfeng Zhang’s .NET Framework notes (http://blogs.msdn.com/junfeng/archive/2005/06/03/424680.aspx) referenced a bug logged against Fusion and answered as “Won’t Fix”. I do not think that Microsoft has correctly understood or responded to the problem. Continue reading →

I was reminded today why two of the traits of a great tester are curiosity and a willingness to share information. Continue reading →

If you’re using nmake, you’ll be familiar with this problem… I have logged some process, now I want to check for an error string in the log and terminate my build if it appears, and I don’t want to have to create a .CMD file to do it. The problem is that tools like grep and findstr return a success code when they find something, and that’s the opposite of what we want. Continue reading →