My machine has been a loyal servant for the few last years, got it new, and it was fine. last couple of months it is giving me hell. long hangs with no apparent reason (I run AV, and constantly scan my computer for evil beings - not spyware). The only indication for anything is given by the wonderfull Process Explorer which points that “Hardware Interrupts” are the ones giving me the grief. However, I have no special hardware connected anywhere, and no change has been made to my configuration...

Finaly a reply from Microsoft... They say that they will let us know what they will do later... http://www.microsoft.com/wi

I've recently been assigned the task of preparing our software to the DST (Daylight Saving Time) that is going to be implemented in the USA beginning March 2007. (link that explains the exact changes: http://www.energy.ca.gov/da... Our system (http://www.interwise.com) deals with event scheduling, so obviously such a change matters to us, and we have to at least asses what will happen when this change comes into effect. As you probably already know, DST is a method in which during...

I encountered this post by Scott Hanselman (whom I of course read regularly), and was mentioned in his after-post - WoooHooo!!! I love attention, even got a link back... Just kidding, I feel unworthy, I just tried putting in my two cents, and didn't think it was such a contribution. To the point, of course Scott is right, XmlReader is much more efficient than XmlDocument (I'm not going into this read his post), also I agree about the Nametable usage, I also wondered but I answered myself (and Scott...

I recieved an email saying I could win a prize by just bloging about it... so here it is:http://www.thinktecture.... Now seriously, I'm not intimate with the product itself, nor have I done much WS developement in a long time. I have, however, done web services programming some time ago, and read a lot of info about it. and it seemed and still seems logical to me to first define the contract - i.e. the interface, and go from there to defining and coding the actual implementation. This seems...

After a long time I'm back writing, mostly because I have something to write about - mostly time has passed by uneventfully... At work, something has changed, actually two things. one is that we have moved to a new office building in a different area, this one is brand new, and has everything that was missing from the old one, especially the fact that I now share an office with a friend - opposed to sitting in an open-space environment, which in my opinion is unsuitable for developing anything but...

Hi, I haven't blogged for the longest time, me and my wife have been settling in into married life and our rented apartment. Much has been going on in my life in the last couple of months. for example I have married my beatifull wife, I have also gotten in to a new hobby - woodturning, which I really love (ranting - again it is proven that leaving in the USA is much more cost effective for me - imagine the cost of importing a wood working Lathe and tools - it is huge!). Anyway, back to the main topic,...

Thanks to Port80 for providing these links, may I add a small contribution TamperIE from Bayden Systems a small utility that doesn't actually look at HTTP but at your GET/POST data and allows you to see and modify this info

I saw this in Signs in the sand blog I read from time to time, MS XSL team is doing a survey on their blog, first I want to thank Oleg for the pointer, second I want to say that this is a great idea in my opinion to ask the developer community on what features they need/want. My own experience with XSLT is quite limited, I have worked with it a few years back, and did some things with it, but I feel a bit un-qualified to answer the questions - especially the size questions, since I haven't dealt...

Since our wedding (and before) my wife and I have been searching for a place to call home - for at least a year, maybe more. This made me think a lot about what kind of place I would like to live in, and I reached some conclusions - if I could I would like to live in the country - away from city life, not that I dislike the city, but that is what I prefer. I grew up in a small village and as a young boy, going to the city was a major hassle - in Israel nothing is far away, but the fact that there...