The Tomes Of Experience

I heard the rumours, but this seems to have sealed it –
employees at MSFT basically “own” blocks of code for themselves.
 
http://blogs.msdn.com/michkap/archive/2005/06/22/431394.aspx
 
Its not that I disagree with the policy, and in fact I’m
a de-factor owner of entire modules at my current
place of work, but owning a few API’s seems funny – I guess
when we’re talking on [...]

Eran Sandler has just started blogging….He’s a
pro when it comes to debugging using native-low level debuggers and always has
lots of interesting stuff to say.
 
Read Here!
 
 
 

This
article over at MSDN discusses the design, architecture and implementation
of the Bungie.NET website. It’s really quite interesting to read how they
leveraged .NET and other technologies to create such a successful site.
 
(Taken from article)
Summary: The Bungie.net
site is the online companion to the wildly successful Halo 2 video game for
Xbox, released in November 2004 by Microsoft. The [...]

Yeap….In what has been dubbed the “Blue
Hat” conference in US, Microsoft invited several security researches to
demonstrate various aspects of Windows being compromised, in an attempt to show
that the company is serious about squashing security holes…
 
Very interesting to read….
 
 
 

I come from a background of Delphi development, and came
across this article by Steve Trefethen about The Delphi
R&D Development Process…
 
Interesting to note that the Delphi IDE builds in only 20
mins….Even more interesting is the fact that all of borland’s tools
(both internal and some external) are written in Delphi…..Hopefully one
day they’ll fix up the Delphi product [...]

If anyone can tell me why I always get the following error when trying to run the ODE.NET samples, I’d be really *really*grateful

 
Tell them to do some research on the “asynchronous
network analysis layer protocol based engine” (aka ANALPROBE)

Or so it seems, after having read on the net…..looks like I wont be able to try out ODE.NET just yet.

…In what I hope will be a long line of posts  
I think its safe to say that its now officially full-steam
ahead.
 
 
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