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A Grande, Triple Shot, Non-Fat Core Dump by Russell Ball

Browsing Posts published in February, 2010

Disclaimer: This is not an exotic edge case or even a particularly difficult bug to figure out. I am merely writing about it because I managed to learn a few useful things about how .NET works in a 64 bit environment as I was investigating it and thought it might be useful to share. The Bug: We [...]

As promised, here’s my review of the January book, the CLR via C# by Jeffrey Richter, from my 2010 tech book reading list. Rating – (3 out of 5 stars) Prerequisites IL Tutorial – Although most of the samples in the book are in C#, there are several key code samples in IL and the [...]

When I first started writing this blog, I devoted several posts to planning and describing my efforts to become a better developer. Although I was inspired by a certain unnamed developer’s public quest to read a book a week for six months, I never chose reading technical books as one of my goals. I’m not [...]