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August 2006 - Posts

Thursday, August 31, 2006 11:23 AM

Performance Quiz #11: Ten Questions on Value-Based Programming

Some of you have probably heard one or more of my talks, or read the annotations I made in the Design Guidelines . If you have then you already know that I don't always agree with every suggested guideline. Especially not in every context. It's probably
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Tuesday, August 22, 2006 5:01 PM

Taming the CLR: How to Write Real-Time Managed Code

I've actually been meaning to write about real time applications for ages so when I was asked to give a talk at MS Gamefest ( http://microsoftgamefest.com ) I jumped at the opportunity to give myself a hard reason to do the homework. Last Tuesday I gave
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Tuesday, August 15, 2006 7:18 AM

My 18th anniversary at MS

Today marks 18 years for me at Microsoft. In a little twist of fate, I'll be presenting at our Gamefest conference which is kind of fitting because I got my start programming games for the PET 2001 in Microsoft BASIC (before it was Visual) and 6502 assembly
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Thursday, August 03, 2006 4:03 PM

Introducing Performance Console

Ever wonder how I get those nice looking HTML call trees with attributed costs like this one here in my last quiz? Well, it turns out that Josh Williams wrote an excellent program for massaging the perf results that come out of our profiler. The way it
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