The Old New Thing

February 4, 2011 - The Old New Thing

The 2010 Niney Award nominees have been announced

February 4, 2011 Feb 4, 2011 02/4/11
Raymond Chen
The nominees for the first (annual?) Niney Awards have been announced. The Nineys are an award which recognizes those who have had the greatest impact on the technical/developer community over the past year. Winners are selected by you, the technical/developer community. The winners will be announced at the MIX11 conference in April. But ...

Ready… cancel… wait for it! (part 3)

February 4, 2011 Feb 4, 2011 02/4/11
Raymond Chen
A customer reported that their application was crashing in RPC, and they submitted a sample program which illustrated the same crash as their program. Their sample program was actually based on the AsyncRPC sample client program, which was nice, because it provided a mutually-known starting point. They made quite a few changes to the program...