May 2006 Entries
Microsoft is doing a lot these days to tighten security in its software. This white paper enumerates the new features in Windows Vista that demonstrate this: http://download.microsoft.c
Alright, if you need to get down to the nitty gritty of Windows memory management like I have to right now, then you don't want to miss these four articles (one of which I posted earlier but will include here again for the sake of comprehensiveness and conveniance). The Virtual-Memory Manager in Windows NT: http://msdn.microsoft.com/l... Managing Virtual Memory in Win32: http://msdn.microsoft.com/l...
I'm currently working with a system that includes a shared memory manager written in C. This has forced me to brush up on some of the Windows programming concepts as well as learn a bunch of new ones. Alas, the Windows developer's world is extremely different from the web developer's. What is a buffer?http://en.wikipedia.... What is a pointer?http://en.wikipedia... What is a handler?http://en.wikipedia...
So it seems that pretty much everyone has decided to release some sort of AJAX framework. Microsoft: http://atlas.asp.net/ Sun: https://ajax.dev.java.net/ Adobe: http://labs.adobe.com/techn... Google: http://goog-ajaxslt.sourcef... Yahoo: http://developer.yahoo.com/... UPDATE (20 May 2006): There's more Oracle: http://www.oracle.com/techn... Google (a more comparable one this time): http://code.google.com/webt... Tibco: http://www.tibco.com/softwa...
A concise article that provides rich insight into multithreaded application programming with some references to available libraries in .NET: http://msdn.microsoft.com/m
I think you'd be hard pressed to find better looking free icons with such an open license agreement: http://www.famfamfam.com/