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This blog is where we help you improve your software, teach you how to use our tools to solve problems, software tool use cases, and improvements to our software tools.

Announcements
December 22, 2009
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Code signing and user hinting

We have just released new versions of our software tools that are code signed. This change will please those of you that are using more […]

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Support for MinGW and QtCreator

Everyone uses Visual Studio to write C and C++ software don’t they? Yes! you all chorus. Apart from some guys at the back who like […]

Memory
December 4, 2009
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Got a crash with a strange pointer value?

Ever had a crash with a pointer value of 0xcdcdcdcd or 0xdddddddd or 0xfeeefeee? You have? Sooner or later when you work with C or […]

Announcements
November 25, 2008
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What do programmers want for Christmas?

T-shirts appears to be the answer. Even better if they come with a natty logo or slogan. Andy Brice has come up with a wonderful […]

Profiler
August 8, 2008
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Robot footballers in China

A while ago a German University Robot Football team asked us if we could help them with their software. We provided Performance Validator to them […]

Announcements
May 12, 2008
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Stephen Kellett

Tab controls and tree/grid controls – why change them?

In this post I’m going to describe some of the changes we’ve been making to the user interface of our software tools and also why […]

Announcements
April 3, 2007
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XULRunner Support

About a month ago we hadn’t heard of XULRunner. Then the folks at Songbird emailed us asking if our JavaScript tools supported XULRunner. Its easy […]

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New .Net software tools

We’ve spent the last few years creating our software tools for C++, Java and all the funky scripting languages that are now getting the recognition […]

Memory News
December 1, 2006
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Stephen Kellett

Ruby Memory Tracking API

To provide the memory tracking, heap dump and object referencing facilities in Ruby Memory Validator we had to reverse engineer some hooks into the Ruby […]

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Firefox 2.0 support

We’ve just released the latest versions of all our JavaScript tools for flow tracing, code coverage, performance profiling and memory profiling. The latest versions support […]

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