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Delayed memory deallocation can look like memory leaks
We recently had a bug in one of our tools that passed all memory leak tests (it didn’t leak memory) but in real-life use with […]
Which lens are you viewing the world through?
This was written a few years ago, but only posted 13 September 2023. A few years ago I attended the funeral of a 96 year […]
How to Install Intel One Mono fonts on Windows
Recently Intel introduced the One Mono font, which is intended to reduce eye strain and to be superior for use by people with vision difficulties. […]
How to find exception reports for our Validator tools
In an ideal world software would never crash. In the real world, software crashes. Hopefully infrequently. Our tools write an exception report when they crash. […]
How do I monitor a process launched from batch files or Powershell scripts?
Batch files are often used to setup an environment prior to starting an executable. You can also do this with Powershell scripts. If you use […]
Enabling and disabling Powershell script execution
If you’ve ever tried to run Powershell scripts from Windows Powershell you’ve probably seen this error message. e:\testNativex86.ps1 : File e:\testNativex86.ps1 cannot be loaded because […]
How do I build all projects in a solution from the command line?
The problem I needed an easy way to automate the building of a Visual Studio solution from the command line. I have a process that […]
Manually installing a licence without reinstalling the software
In this article, we’re going to discuss how to manually install a licence without reinstalling the software. Why would I want to do this? The […]
Common IIS Server Errors
When working with IIS it’s not uncommon to run into problems with pages not being served correctly. When this happens you’re shown an error page […]
Setting directory permissions for user group IIS_IUSRS
If you’re working with IIS there is a high likelihood that at some point you’ll want to write data to a log file and/or enable […]