/* Rambling comments... */

June 07, 2007

x64 Socket Server framework
My new development box arrived last week. It's a bit of a monster, dual processor (Intel Xeon E5320 quad core, 1.86 GHz), 8GB ram, and it runs 64bit Vista very nicely indeed. Since it's an x64 box I have started...

June 13, 2007

Performance counter installation on Vista
I've been aware that there was a 'need to run as Administrator' issue with some of my server examples for a while; only the ones that installed/removed performance counter dlls or installed/removed themselves as Windows Services. The service installation problem...

IPv6 support - in anger...
Whilst the server framework has supported IPv6 for a while now I haven't really used the functionality a great deal. My previous development box didn't have IPv6 installed and so I never really got around to playing with it. Since...

June 14, 2007

x64 port - a diversion
The x64 port of the socket server framework is going well. I've run the tests for the OpenSSL servers and things are looking good there; this is always an important stage to get to for me as these servers and...

June 27, 2007

Pluggable log systems
In the past I've mentioned my lack of enthusiasm for the normal 'debug trace' files that some systems seem to include... I pretty much consider them a design smell... But, some of my clients seem to like them and over...

Reliable UDP
I've been doing some work for a client on their reliable UDP implementation. It's been interesting stuff. They had picked out a 'best of breed' open source, reliable UDP protocol implementation which was in 'C' and integrated it into their...