In the spirit of helping the next guy, here's some explanation for a problem that was surprising to me. We have recently upgraded our product to 64-bits and all developer workstations to Windows 2008 x64. The transition was easy and most things worked with minor or no tweak at all. We're still...
My current project has an interesting story of being converted across platforms and programming languages. I hope I can talk about this conversion process some day (it was not manual). One of the side effects of mass conversions like this is that the final result tends to carry over some weird patterns...
I'm about to configure a new development machine this week. It's going to be my 3rd install from scratch in the last 12 months, which I know is not all that much, but certainly more than I wish I had to. Besides the common software development tools, like Visual Studio, SQL Server, Ruby, Office...
How to Create Windows Services It's not uncommon for an enterprise application to need some form of background processes to do continuous work. These could be tasks such as Cleanup abandoned shopping carts Delete temporary files left behind by some report or image generation feature Send email notifications...