It’s that time again: Sending some link love to my colleagues. <\/p>\n
dv<\/code> command<\/a>. Plenty of other debugging tips on that site, so check it out. Doug Stewart<\/a> has his own collection of links to debugging resources<\/a>. <\/li>\n- Michael Howard<\/a> goes into more detail about what sort of heap corruption is treated as fatal<\/a> if you set
HeapEnableTerminationOnCorruption<\/code><\/a>. Of course, this list may change as new types of corruption-detection are added, but it’s a start. <\/li>\n- Terry Zink<\/a> blogs about the world of email spam, including a massive 18-part series on backscatter<\/a>. <\/li>\n
- Dennis Middleton, the self-proclaimed NTFS Doctor<\/i>, explains why the Size on disk<\/i> and Used space<\/i> appear to disagree<\/a>. <\/li>\n
- The Environment<\/a> folks have their own blog for computing and the environment, titled Software Enabled Earth<\/a>. Nick Mayhew<\/a> calls out some of his favorite parts<\/a>. <\/li>\n
- The Live Search Webmaster Center Blog<\/a> introduces you to the basics of seeing how Live Search crawls your site<\/a> and what steps you can take to help it do a better job. <\/li>\n
- James Whittaker<\/a> tackles the thorny question, If Microsoft is so good at testing, why does your software suck?<\/a> <\/li>\n
- Better than epoxy<\/a>: Chris Chalmers’s e-Discovery<\/a> covers new group policies to give administrators better control over USB thumb drives. <\/li>\n
- Adrian Vinca<\/a> has shared a personal programming project written just to learn about XNA, but it sounds useful in its own right: Zune Clock 1.5<\/a>. (Earlier versions<\/a> also available.) <\/li>\n
- Alfred Thompson<\/a> helps us find old Office commands on the new ribbon<\/a>. <\/li>\n
- Tom Mertens<\/a> points to<\/a> an instructional video showing how to write your own Windows Live Messenger agent<\/a>. Now I’m tempted to write one, even though I have nothing for my agent to do… (Smarter people than me have created a .) \n
- The Office Natural Language Team<\/a> explain how you can remove a word from Office’s speller dictionary<\/a>. Earlier this year, there was also an article in the local newspaper on the day-to-day decisions by the people who maintain the list of words in the spell-check dictionary<\/a>. Bonus reading: A run-down of the process<\/a>, and reader feedback<\/a>. <\/li>\n
- Scott Hanselman<\/a> shares the history of the Windows Template Library (WTL)<\/a>. <\/li>\n
- Joseph Conway explains what the WINSXS directory is, and why it’s so huge<\/a>. <\/li>\n
- If you aren’t subscribed to the Engineering Windows 7<\/a> blog, then stop right now and go subscribe. I’ll wait. \n