November 2006 - Posts

• The Managed Stack Explorer

  Posted Thursday, November 23, 2006 9:05 AM | 0 Comments
  
  

  Its always nice as a developer when you find a new tool to make your life easier - understanding what is actually happening during the execution of your application (rather than what you think is happening) is key to fixing those hard to find bugs. Read More by James | 0 Comments | Comment on this post

• The four second cutoff

  Posted Friday, November 10, 2006 10:51 AM | 0 Comments
  
  

  There was an article about some research which Akamai has done on user’s experiences of online stores – mainly with respect to loading times - on Slashdot yesterday and it appeared on BBC News this morning as well.   Their headline conclusion was Read More by James | 0 Comments | Comment on this post

• Sysinternals @ Microsoft

  Posted Friday, November 10, 2006 10:25 AM | 1 Comments
  
  

  I dont quite know when this appeared but Microsoft have added the sysinternals stuff to technet - If you havn't used sysinternals tools before then you are missing a real treat - I have lost count of the amount of times they have helped me debug some Read More by James | 1 Comments | Comment on this post

• Enumerating local 64 bit and 32 bit instances of SQL Server

  Posted Thursday, November 02, 2006 3:03 PM | 0 Comments
  
  

  When checking for local instances of SQL Server its normally best enumerate the value of the registry key HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Microsoft SQL Server\ and then look at the value on installed instances.   However on a 64 bit machine there are two Read More by James | 0 Comments | Comment on this post