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Random spurts of inspired discussion
DirectX managed redistributable
Sorry for the problems you've had running the "Whack-a-PM" sample program. It requires the managed...
Date: 02/03/2006
Week 2: Object-oriented Design and Visual J# Projects
This week's lecture is about object-oriented design, and how we're going to do the design for our...
Date: 02/02/2006
Week 1: The game and the sample code
This week's lecture is a more detailed description of the Hunt the Wumpus game you will be building,...
Date: 01/23/2006
Now actively recruiting Atlanta Hunt the Wumpus Mentors
I posted an initial notification but then spent time trying to find a school to work with first. I'm...
Date: 12/01/2005
Hunt the Wumpus in Atlanta
I'm looking to recruit other software folks to help teach software engineering practices as part of...
Date: 09/12/2005
[MIT enews] When I Testified Before Congress
A thought-provoking article about the state of science and engineering education in the U.S....
Date: 07/13/2005
Windows Embedded Challenge ROCKS!
I know I said I'd be blogging on the ce_base team blog now, but I figured my personal blog is a...
Date: 06/18/2005
Windows CE Base Team Blog
We just created a new team blog, the CE base team blog, to cover kernel & file system issues....
Date: 06/06/2005
Lock Convoys and How to Recognize Them
The problem: When using a particular application on one specific device, users noticed very bad UI...
Date: 05/27/2005
[misc] Getting Kids into Computers
Links I turned up from recent discussions of this topic: Scobleizer:...
Date: 05/26/2005
Windows CE eHow-tos and Tutorials! WOW!!
I saw a blip of this at MEDC, and just checked it out myself. How cool! It's like a DevCon for all...
Date: 05/25/2005
Using RAM over 512MB
Q: I can use only 512MB of RAM from my device. How can I address the remaining RAM ? On one of your...
Date: 05/25/2005
[BBC] Commentary: CEO Blogs
https://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4576737.stm Hmm this makes me wonder. If it's true that those...
Date: 05/25/2005
Recognizing Excessive Thread Switching
Sometimes the source of a performance problem is not that code is too slow, but that threads switch...
Date: 05/23/2005
Remote Kernel Tracker: More things you should recognize
I have a few more examples of patterns you can recognize when you’re looking at CeLog threading data...
Date: 05/21/2005
Introduction to Remote Kernel Tracker
When you connect to a device with Remote Kernel Tracker, or when you open a log file that has been...
Date: 05/17/2005
CeLog documentation
At long last, a big chunk of work I did to add documentation of CeLog & Remote Kernel Tracker...
Date: 05/16/2005
How does the OS use the registry?
Q: As an embedded programmer I am new to all windows development. And as such I am ignorant of the...
Date: 04/11/2005
More CE database Q&A
Posting some questions I received from my blog. 1. You mentioned the that the maximum size of an...
Date: 04/11/2005
GetTickCount – Truth and Fiction
I was surprised and dismayed to read a recent article in Embedded Systems Programming...
Date: 04/05/2005
DevCon 2005
Yeay! I'm going to this year's DevCon, which covers both Mobile and Embedded this year (instead of...
Date: 03/16/2005
Resolving Symbols Manually on Windows CE (ADDRESS --> SYMBOL)
You know you've been there. You are looking at a callstack, and the one function you want to know...
Date: 02/28/2005
Looking for a good tool for doing hex math
While I'm writing about all of these address tricks -- I figured I'd ask around if there's a good...
Date: 02/25/2005
Windows CE Virtual Memory Layout for Debugging
I want to blog about how to resolve symbols manually, and realized I would have to assume that the...
Date: 02/25/2005
Debugging tricks
John Eldridge has posted some debugging tricks on his blog, and that has inspired me to write up...
Date: 02/24/2005
It has been a while
I would use being busy as an excuse, except I'm always busy. ;-) Call it, lack of creativity about...
Date: 02/17/2005
2 [PC Magazine] SanDisk Marries Flash with USB
https://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,,1749522,00.asp Are there actually electrical components in the...
Date: 01/10/2005
3 [InternetNews.com] Microsoft Now Leads in PDA, Embedded OS
https://www.internetnews.com/ent-news/article.php/3435501 All our hard work is paying off in a...
Date: 11/17/2004
CE memory division between "storage" & "program" memory
Somehow I've been involved in a bunch of discussions on this subject lately, so I figured I might as...
Date: 09/09/2004
ADOCE 3.1 and PPC 2003
So, now that I've posted a message saying it's not possible to use the two together, I found a...
Date: 09/01/2004
What WINDOWS CE debugging tools would you like to see?
Just an informal survey -- I use some of our tools all the time, some rarely. I have my own nitpicks...
Date: 08/31/2004
2 [Wireless News Factor] Samsung Develops VGA Screen for Mobile Phones
Date: 08/12/2004
2 [ExtremeTech, JupiterResearch] A couple of PMC reviews
ExtremeTech did a not-so-favorable review of PMC:...
Date: 07/22/2004
3 [Yahoo] Amazon to Take Pre-Orders for Portable Media Center
https://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=582&e=1&u=/nm/20040709/wr_nm/tech_micros...
Date: 07/09/2004
3 [HowardForums] Motorola MPX300 is so cool!
Check it out, I want one!...
Date: 07/07/2004
Thread Lab materials are posted for EDC participants
They've finally posted my thread lab handouts and code up on www.edccontent.com. So if you went to...
Date: 07/06/2004
I survived!
Hooray, I survived DevCon! The kernel talk and perf talk were ready to go by Monday, and after many...
Date: 07/02/2004
2 [Newsweek] China Changes Microsoft
https://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5197528/site/newsweek/ China is definitely a challenge. I can't fault...
Date: 06/17/2004
2 [CNET] Worm ready to wriggle into smart phones
https://news.com.com/Worm+ready+to+wriggle+into+smart+phones/2100-7349_3-5233517.html?tag=nefd.hed...
Date: 06/15/2004
[BusinessWeek] What Do You Do For Fun?
https://www.businessweek.com/@@yi0OBWUQ42AQNRUA/premium/content/04_21/b3884138_mz070.htm?se=1 Dang, I...
Date: 06/04/2004
1 [NewsFactor.com] Nokia Launches Skywriting Cell Phone
https://wireless.newsfactor.com/story.xhtml?story_id=24369 I think these scrolling LED signs are...
Date: 06/03/2004
2 [KernelThread.com] Making an Operating System Faster (10 Things Apple did to make Mac OS X Faster)
https://www.kernelthread.com/mac/apme/optimizations/ The prebinding might be a possible improvement...
Date: 06/03/2004
2 [brighthand] Sony Exits U.S. Handheld Market
https://www.brighthand.com/article/sayonara_clie No more Clie's in the U.S. Their assessment is that...
Date: 06/01/2004
Common CE database questions
Q: Is it possible to use the CEDB APIs (CeMountDBVol, CeOpenDatabaseEx, etc) to open an existing...
Date: 05/27/2004
3 [LinuxDevices.com] Embedded tools vendor RTI joins Eclipse Foundation
https://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS9968938065.html Wow, pretty serious for us. RTI's tools are...
Date: 05/21/2004
Another DevCon talk
Looks like I'll also be giving the “Inside the Windows CE Kernel” talk at DevCon. It...
Date: 05/17/2004
See you at DevCon!
Sorry I haven't been posting any content. Mainly I expect content to come out of newsgroup...
Date: 05/10/2004
2 [Silicon Insider] Sharp Freshens Low-Cost ARM Chips
https://www.jimturley.com/si/Issue13/Issue13web.htm#link5 My take-aways: $12 - 75MHz ARM7 chips Makes...
Date: 04/26/2004