/* Rambling comments... */

October 01, 2008

STLPort 5.1.5 and VS2008 and x64
I've been meaning to build STLPort for Visual Studio 2008 for some time now but as the STL support that ships with Visual Studio has been improved the urgency to be able to use an alternative has reduced. Unfortunately STLPort...

October 09, 2008

Asynchronous SChannel Servers
I'm currently working on an SChannel version of the asynchronous SSL connector code that we use to provide SSL support in the server framework. This will eventually be an alternative to the existing OpenSSL support that we currently provide and...

October 17, 2008

Goodbye old friend
As of release 5.2.4, which is due for release in December, we will no longer support Visual Studio 6 builds of the server framework. I've recently had to deal with some weird multi-threaded problems for a client and upgrading them...

October 19, 2008

/Wall
I've been compiling with /W4 for some time now. I didn't realise that this wasn't the best you could get. There are some warnings which are not enabled by default and therefore aren't included in /W4. To enable these you...

October 21, 2008

Lock contention
I had reason to run my deadlock detection tool on a server built with an old version of the server framework as I needed to make changes to the server's locking strategy and I wanted to make sure that I...