June 2005 - CraigBlog

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  • Take a Walk on the Wild Side

    I recently found myself in the interesting position of being asked by my client to help them write a web service client...in Java. I know basically nothing about Java, but I'm usually pretty good about picking things up quickly, so I dove in. I don't...
  • Visual Studio Guidelines

    Via John Robbins , I came across this little gem today. It's a registry setting that lets you display vertical guidelines in Visual Studio (2002, 2003, or 2005). This is handy as a cue that you might be writing lines that will be too long for your teammates...
  • PerformanceCounter Slowness Explained

    The unparalleled David Gutierrez from Microsoft stopped by and left a comment on my post about horrible PerformanceCounter slowness . His explanation in its entirety: I can shed some light on these issues. PerformanceCounters use a machine wide memory...
  • PerformanceCounter Constructor Horribly Slow

    I'm doing some work on FlexWiki , and I'm finding that this call: PerformanceCounter answer = new PerformanceCounter(s_PerformanceCounterCategoryName, name, false); is sometimes taking a really , really long time to come back. Like several minutes. I...
  • David Ornstein FlexWiki Interview on Channel9

    David Ornstein - who wrote most of FlexWiki - was interviewed on Channel9 and made the front page. In the interview, he talks about the history and philosophy of FlexWiki , why he created it, and how it's being used inside of Microsoft. Oh, and he mentions...
  • TiddlyWiki

    My friend Pinku posted a link to TiddlyWiki the other day. While I'm not quite sure I share his assessment of it as “the most amazing Javascript web app ever” I would definitely agree that it is a rather impressive application. If you're too...
  • Interactive Mode for JavaScript.NET

    Ever since I read Don's post the other day pointing out the often-overlooked support for a powerful command-line scripting languge in Windows (Javascript), I've been meaning to post this. It's a batch file that will let you run JScript.NET files interactively...
  • SoundMeter

    Someone emailed me today asking if I had any plans to extend my DirectSound tutorial to show how to read from a microphone. I don't really have time to write a full-fledged tutorial right now, but I did have a few minutes to post some code I'd written...