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Life
June 5, 2021
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Living with Repetitive Strain Injury (RSI)

This article was written by myself in 2000/2001 and was originally hosted on a different website that no longer exists. I have updated this with […]

Development Tips
May 11, 2021
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Why Process Injection Fails

If you are reading this web page it is most likely because you have just tried to inject into a running process and the injection failed. You’ve probably just viewed an information dialog similar to the one shown below.

Development Tips
May 11, 2021
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Memory Fragmentation, your worst nightmare

We first know when someone has a memory fragmentation problem when we receive an email that goes something like this:

Development Tips
May 11, 2021
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Unusual Memory Bit Patterns

Software development is an intellectual challenge. Sometimes the process is interrupted by software failures and/or crashes.

Debugging
April 14, 2021
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Why does GetProcAddress() sometimes return an address outside of the DLL?

For most uses of GetProcAddress(), the address returned will be an address inside the DLL that you’re using to look up the function. But sometimes, […]

Thread
December 10, 2020
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What’s new with Thread Validator

There are some changes coming to Thread Validator. I’m going to describe the various changes and the reasons behind them. Name Change The first one […]

Profiler
December 10, 2020
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What’s new with Performance Validator

There are many changes coming to Performance Validator. I’m going to describe the various changes and the reasons behind them. Name Change The first one […]

Memory
December 10, 2020
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What’s new with Memory Validator

There are many changes coming to Memory Validator. I’m going to describe the various changes and the reasons behind them. Name Change The first one […]

Coverage
December 10, 2020
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What’s new with Coverage Validator

There are many changes coming to Coverage Validator. I’m going to describe the various changes and the reasons behind them. Name Change The first one […]

Announcements user experience
December 8, 2020
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New UX Theme

We’ve been working on a new, calmer UX Theme for a while. The aim is to reduce the number of lines, have less visual clutter, […]

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