/* Rambling comments... */: June 2008 Archives

June 03, 2008

Another ISO 8583 transaction server
It has been a busy couple of weeks for me. I've been working on an ISO 8583 based transaction server for a client and I set myself some fairly tight deadlines. I actually developed the first version of the server...

June 17, 2008

Data distribution servers
Many of the servers built from my socket server framework are for high number of connections and low data flow situations and as such that's where the focus has been on the framework development and testing. As I've shown in...

June 24, 2008

The mounted file system does not support extended attributes...
I really really really hate the error that I sometimes get when trying to copy a file from my Vista box to my NAS: "The mounted file system does not support extended attributes". With the options to "Try again" or...

June 25, 2008

High throughput, low latency
As I said in my recent posting about Data Distribution Servers, "Next on the list is writing a more focused server and clients." . Tick. I started out by writing the data feed. This was a simplified version of the...

Managed XLL Excel Addins
Back in December and January I was working on the initial phases of a system to allow the development of custom Excel worksheet functions in managed code using the Excel XLL 'C' interface (Excel4v). Phase 1 finished with us having...