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Removing annoying ‘ceil’ : attributes not present on previous declaration warning C4985
A bug in Visual Studio 2008 when compiling for 64 bit code results in a rather odd warning message. The message is typically shown for […]
How to read embedded data from a resource
In the previous article, I showed you how to embed data into a custom resource in your executable. In this article, I’m going to show […]
How to embed data into a resource
In this article, I will demonstrate how you can embed data into a Windows PE format executable (EXE or DLL). At the end, I will […]
Thread Validator x64 enters BETA
Thread Validator x64 is now available for beta testing. Thread Validator x64 is the 64 bit version of our successful 32 bit Thread Validator software […]
Give up caffeine, improve productivity
Give up caffeine, improve productivity – yes I am serious. Just recently I found out that I was allergic to several things, one of them […]
How to commit suicide – outsource your software development
Is that headline a bit too strong? I don’t think so. Allow me to explain. This article applies to any company where your main product […]
Problems building Firefox
I’ve been building Firefox on Windows recently. Without problems. But then I wanted a build with symbols and that is when the problems started. It […]
Doing good work can make you feel a bit stupid
Doing good work can make you feel a bit stupid, well that’s my mixed bag of feelings for this weekend. Here is why… Last week […]
How to prevent a memory tool from monitoring your C/C++ allocations
A little known fact is that the Microsoft C Runtime (CRT) has a feature which allows some allocations (in the debug runtime) to be tagged […]
Don’t use srand(clock()), use srand((unsigned)time(NULL)) instead
Typically you use srand() when you need to start the random number generator in a random place. You may do this because you are going […]