/* Rambling comments... */

May 10, 2007

cvs update -j
I've finally got to the point where my latest socket server refactoring can be merged back to the main development branch. The changes grew from just being a "remove inappropriate use of pointers where references would be better" to a...

Graceful close bug...
It seems that the latest changes to the socket server framework have managed to flush out a graceful shutdown bug that's been floating around since day 0. There's this whole, complex, way of determining how a socket is shutdown and...

May 12, 2007

UPnP User Interface causes Explorer to hang in My Network Places?
I've been having some problems with Explorer hanging when opening "My Network Places" on some of my machines. Some work fine, some hang. Most annoying. I've been trying a few things over the past few weeks (as and when I...

May 16, 2007

A computer magazine that makes me feel like I used to about programming...
I grabbed a couple of copies of "The NT Insider" from my 'not quite got around to reading' rack today and read them on the train on the way in to London. These are the quite short, bi-monthly, driver developer...

I'm with Dennis, and Ian...
Given what Jeff wrote recently and what Ian and Dennis said about it... I'm definitely on the Ian and Dennis side of the fence......

May 23, 2007

STLPort 5.1.3 and multiple VC versions
I'm just about to try out the latest STLPort release and I went to apply my 'STLPort 5.0 multiple side by side dlls changes' from 2005 and noticed that the place where one of the changes needs to be made...