21 Oct 2014
Our BI team is currently going through an uplift from Win2k3 to Win2012. It is quite a massive undertaking of course. But, beyond the amount of work that has to be done there is another dangerous killer out there. Undocumented changes. In this article I describe the System.Security.HostProtectionException in relation to SSRS and custom code.
24 Sep 2014
More often than not I do postmortem debugging. That is to say, I get a dump file long after the machine has experienced an issue. But, on occasion I get pulled in to take a look at problems that need to be run through the debugger. This article will show you some commands you can use to locate and fix code using WinDbg.
23 Sep 2014
Usually when I performance test internal applications I don’t consider bandwidth unless I know we’re doing something irrational like transferring multi gigabyte files all the time. And even then I only consider it if we’re crossing a WAN or some other “slow” link between sites. But, every now and then there is a project that runs over the Internet and it is very data intensive. And, a lot of that data is out of the control of the developers (images, 3rd party libraries, fonts).
16 Sep 2014
While thumbing through Twitter I ran across an
article written by
@grabnerandi about a company not being able to load test a change for dependency injection. I can’t tell you how many times in my job that performance testing has been brushed over for speed to market.
06 Sep 2014
Every now and then a balance needs to be struck from the every day coding of an application. While personal life is usually the topic for these types of posts, today that is not the case. Sometimes you have to write code in order to write code. This is somewhat of an extended rant from my previous post.
