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July 29, 2011

My Favorite Quotes

Here are some of my favorite quotes:

"Debugging is twice as hard as writing code in the first place.  Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it."
    - Brian Kernighan

"Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them."
    - Albert Einstein

"There are three categories of open issues with our application: those that we know about, those that we don't know about, and those that we don't know that we don't know about."  Someone in the group actually asked "Can you give an example of the last one?"
    - former coworker

"It's not a bug, it's a feature"
    - unknown

"Bugs are a form of job security."
    - unknown

"If debugging is the process of removing bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in."
  - Edsger Dijkstra

"The only difference between a beginning programmer and an experienced one is the complexity of the bugs they write."
  - Dave Black
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June 6, 2011

Finally a good free multi-monitor tool

timstall: Tool - WinSplit Revolution - move windows between ...: "A coworker showed me a useful (and free!) tool that conveniently positions open windows on your screen. The tool is Winsplit Revolution , ..."
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April 29, 2011

New WinDbg Extension available

I'm happy to announce that a new version of the WinDbg debugging extension PSSCOR2 (now called PSSCOR4) has been released.  It is available for public download here: 

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=a06a0fea-a4d4-434e-a527-d6afa2e552dd
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April 28, 2011

Whitepaper on the Debug Diagnostic Tool v1.1 - IIS debugging and debugdiag - Site Home - MSDN Blogs

Whitepaper on the Debug Diagnostic Tool v1.1 - IIS debugging and debugdiag - Site Home - MSDN Blogs
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March 9, 2011

IIS Tools that you should have...

Here is a list of IIS tools I've used in the past and their respective links.  Please note that all of these tools are FREE and widely used in the industry.
 
IIS Web Deploy 2.0
 
 
IIS 6.0 Resource Kit (many tools included here – most helpful are probably IIS 6.0 Migration Tool and the IIS Metabase Explorer)
 
 
IIS Diagnostics Kit – IIS Diag
 
This includes a number of tools which help diagnose various types of problems with IIS setup and configuration:
  • AuthDiag - authentication and ACL problems
  • SSL Diag - SSL-related problems
  • SMTP Diag - smtp-related issues
  • Log Parser - allows for easy reading of IIS log files
  • Debug Diag - allows you to create memory dumps manually or automatically when IIS hangs.  It also can run a memory ananlysis from the memory dump captured!
  • and others...

Event Log Explorer - allows you to create custom queries and filters against anything in the Event Viewer – very cool!


And a whole list of the other great tools from the IIS Team at Microsoft:


 
 
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