Code Timing functions
Posted on June 27th, 2005 by Ben
time_t vs. GetTickCount vs QueryPerformanceTimer vs. GetMachineCycleCount
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25 Years
Posted on June 25th, 2005 by Ben
Well, today marks my 25th year of personal reign upon this earth….
I’m still young ‘un. I’m still in grad school, but I’ve got a good job, a wonderful wife, and things are going pretty well with everything else.
One of my favorite presents is a lego set. When I was a kid I played with legos [...]
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Visual Studio 2005 TS Beta 2
Posted on June 13th, 2005 by Ben
I finally received my Visual Studio 2005 Team System Beta 2 in the mail!
It took about 3 weeks to get here. I’m very excited. I plan on converting BRayTracer to use VS 2005.
It’s on track to take about 90 minutes to install. Installation of the compact framework failed, so I’m repairing that component. According to [...]
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Cars and the Idiots who Own Them – Part II
Posted on June 13th, 2005 by Ben
Well, I took it in this morning for a full checkup. I should preface this with by saying that for the last month, and especially the last week or so, I’ve been feeling strongly that I needed to take the car in for a serious look. Things just felt different–and not better.
I left it this [...]
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Cars and the Idiots who Own Them
Posted on June 11th, 2005 by Ben
Yes, I’m talking about me.
This morning, we had a big day planned: food shopping, checking out an international market, and having some guests this evening. We decided to go to the international market first1. We had heard they had really cheap produce and were not disappointed. We picked up quite a bit of greens and [...]
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Code Security and Typed Assembly Language
Posted on June 9th, 2005 by Ben
Over the summer I’m taking a class called Programming Languages and Security. This is the first time I’ve delved into security at this level before. It’s a seminar style, which means lots of paper reading, and I am going to give two presentations.
My first presentation was this past Thursday. I spoke about typed assembly language [...]
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Attributes and Complexity
Posted on June 6th, 2005 by Ben
Attributes are really just lightweight base classes…or are they?
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Managing Complexity – Part 2
Posted on June 3rd, 2005 by Ben
Further musings on complexity and software
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Managing Complexity
Posted on June 1st, 2005 by Ben
Software developers and managing complexity
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