September 2004 - CraigBlog

CraigBlog

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  • From EIF to log4net

    You've seen my posts from time to time about Microsoft's Enterprise Instrumentation Framework (EIF). We were using it at one of my clients for quite some time to log all of our errors to various places. But recently we started experiencing massive slowdowns...
  • FlexWiki Available on SourceForge

    Finally, finally, finally, FlexWiki has completed its long transition from its old home at GotDotNet to its new home at SourceForge . David Ornstein - the father of FlexWiki - has a post talking about it from his perspective. Here's mine. Way back in...
  • Looks Like It Works

    It seems that the MSDN Product Feedback Site works: the System.Decimal bug that I complained about will be fixed in Whidbey Beta 2. Nice to see the loop closed.
  • MSDN Alpha Available

    For the past two years, I've been working on a complete overhaul of the MSDN publishing system. Tim Ewald was one of the principal forces behind this effort, but there were plenty of other really smart people involved, too: I am not at all kidding to...
  • FoamHenge

    My wife and I had ourselves a little getaway this weekend, as she will be starting school again soon, followed shortly thereafter by the birth of our son/daughter/other. In other words, it was basically our last chance to do this (easily). As we were...
  • Viewing EIF Trace Service Logs

    I've talked here before about problems I've had with EIF , the Microsoft Enterprise Instrumentation Framework. At the time, I thought that the bug I was seeing manifested itself as “I'm unable to open a remote logfile written by the EIF trace service...
  • Complexity is in the Eye of the Beholder

    I've got a few things in the pipeline, which is why it's been quiet around here. More on that later. In the meantime... Ian has an interesting post here about complexity in APIs. Since he doesn't have a comment facility, I can feel justified in using...