Windows 10 Install
I did a clean install of Windows 10 on a brand new SSD. Good things: It was relatively straightforward and quick. It also rebooted seamlessly without requiring me to remove […]
The art of doubt
I run into the same story time and time again. Someone stumbles upon a bug that they cannot explain. All plausible reasons are eliminated, but it still does not work. […]
Big Brother is seriously watching you
4:18PM: Went to Google Maps and entered “Tirana” in the search box. This was a random act of curiosity: we recently had a conversation about Albania at work, and I […]
Cannot return JToken from WCF Web Service
This blog entry is mostly for documentation purposes, so I don’t forget what happened. TL;DR: WCF’s DataContractJsonSerializer cannot deal with JToken or JObject. If you attempt to include those in […]
Dock panel for Angular.js
It sounds unbelievable, but modern HTML applications seem to lack proper support for dock panels. So, I created one for Angular.js. See the code in Plunker My solution is based […]
Azure table storage is slow
Simply put, Azure table storage is too slow. The best I could get out of it was about 700 records/second for INSERT and 4600 records second for READ, which was […]
Win32: Who loads the library that implements LoadLibrary?
I was sitting in a Dairy Queen this afternoon thinking about random stuff and suddenly this question hit me: who loads the library that implements LoadLibrary? Isn’t it some kind […]
The joy of git
Trying to move an SVN repository to git, I discovered a couple of interesting facts: git clone does not really clone. It only copies one branch, so the resulting repository […]
Your options for async LINQ are very limited (c)
CodeProject Simply put, async and LINQ don’t coexist very well. With “async all the way” approach, LINQ queries have to be unwound back into loops. Frankly, that’s a shame. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16866331/convert-async-loop-to-linq-query
How to break into debugger when specific Windows message is sent or posted
CodeProject We have recently been fighting a weird problem in our .NET application that was caused by a duplicate WM_KEYDOWN message. It relatively is easy to figure out who receives […]