July 2007 Entries
Everyone has a horror story to tell about dealing with a technology giant whose bureaucracy has run amok. This harrowing tale of an encounter with Dell sales will send chills up your spine...
I have been saved from many a peril during my adventure of a life. When I was instrumenting a large system recently, I realized just how wonderful good design can make your software development life...
In order to free space on the system partition, we moved a variety of directories from drive C to drive D, and then used the Junction utility from SysInternals (now owned by Microsoft) to create reparse points on drive C that pointed to the new file locations on drive D. Unfortunately, the party ended when we tried to relocate the GAC...
If you're dealing with an issue that shows up only in production, sometimes you have to write special diagnostic code. This technique is known as instrumentation. If you don't have a license for a specialized profiler, or if you just want to focus on a small set of critical areas in your code, use the techniques in this post to find your bottleneck(s).