Wednesday, March 02, 2005 - Posts

posted Wednesday, March 02, 2005 4:24 PM by Mike Taulty :: 0 Comments

Processor Performance Top 5

Really good blog post over here by Rico Mariani about trying to be performant at the processor level in thinking about cache misses, translation look-aside buffers and so on. Great read. Read More
posted Wednesday, March 02, 2005 10:00 AM by Mike Taulty :: 1 Comments

Bendy Displays

The Polymer Vision rollable-displays look very cool indeed. Read More
posted Wednesday, March 02, 2005 7:33 AM by Mike Taulty :: 1 Comments

WSE2.0, TCP transports and Socket Options

Steve pointed out something to me about WSE2.0 and the TCP transport. Apparently you can encounter a "An attempt was made to access a socket in a way forbidden by its access permissions" error if you're a non admin Read More
posted Wednesday, March 02, 2005 6:55 AM by Mike Taulty :: 0 Comments

Cables just have to be easier than this...

The painful world of wireless networking continues. I have an SMC Barricade wireless router. At the moment, I'm finding that around 5-10 times a day this box seems to just die and I have to go switch it off, wait a while and switch Read More
posted Wednesday, March 02, 2005 1:31 AM by Mike Taulty :: 0 Comments

WindowsForms and the Idle Loop

When you're writing Windows Forms applications it's always nice to be able to keep the UI responsive in order to avoid frustrating the user. I seem to remember reading a UI study ages back which said that if the UI hangs for about Read More