I installed Windows Vista Service Pack 1 this morning. It took about 45 minutes, two reboots, and afterward I had no problems. It never showed up in Windows Update for me so I used the standalone installer (linked to above), fully prepared to reinstall some drivers. But afterwards, no drivers seemed to have any problems–Device […]
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This is an issue I run into constantly at my job.
Frank Kelly wrote up a good summary of some items. They’re simple, easy to understand, easy to follow, even for non-programmers.
In fact, I’m sending this link out to everyone in my group here at work.
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The importance of measuring performance changes is a topic that has been covered by others smarter and more experienced than me, but I have a recent simple tale.
I’ve simplified the code quite a bit in order to demonstrate the issue. Suppose I have a wrapper around an image (it has many more attributes):
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One of the key requirements for being able to reliably update software is the confidence that the changes you are making are safe. The amount of confidence required increases with the complexity of the system.
In my day job I work on a real-time messaging system that can have very, very little downtime. As the service […]
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For Christmas, I got my wife a neat little townhouse. A LEGO townhouse. She loved it–until she got towards the end of the first model. There was a single piece missing. I went to LEGO’s web site and filled out a simple form. A few weeks later, I got the part and a really nice […]
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