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Development Porting to Win64
December 5, 2013
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64 bit tools leaving beta this month

For those of you keeping a keen eye on the version numbers of the various C++ 64 bit betas we have will have noticed that […]

Development
June 26, 2013
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Why symbols don’t load – the DbgHelp search path

The problem One of the problems with using DbgHelp.dll to read the symbols for your Visual Studio application is that sometimes your symbols do not […]

Coverage
May 9, 2013
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How to compare two code coverage sessions?

Recently we’ve had a flurry of customers wanting the ability to compare the code coverage of their application. This sounded like a good idea so […]

Development
May 9, 2013
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New environment variable dialog

We recently had some feedback from customers telling us that they were dealing with legacy applications that were configured using large numbers of environment variables […]

hardware
February 1, 2013
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Microsoft Surface RT, my first month

Introduction On the 1st January 2013 I purchased a Microsoft Surface RT. I purchased the 64GB version that comes with the touch cover. I didn’t […]

Announcements
December 7, 2012
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Problems with slow shutdown, slow install

There is a problem with recent versions of our software released prior to 5 December 2012. Problem description The problem is that some people will […]

conference Talks & conferences
November 22, 2012
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Ogilvy Lab Day

Friday 26 October 2012 was Ogilvy Lab Day, held at Ravensbourne next to the O2 Arena, London, UK. I apologise if any details are incorrect […]

Life
November 2, 2012
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The sedentary life of the software business

Software is great isn’t it? Configurable, flexible, modifiable, bend it to any shape you want. In short it’s very very useful. It also causes you […]

conference
October 2, 2012
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Herding cats with the BOS Big Band

Yesterday I had the honour to play with the Business of Software big band at the conference party in the Julep Bar, Boston, MA. The […]

Coverage
August 3, 2012
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UX Improvements for Coverage Validator

We recently released new versions of the Coverage Validator tools for all languages. The main reason for this release was to make the tools more […]

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