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My thoughts on software development, technology and design, and the various ways they intersect with our culture.

View the origin of a repeating call stack

January 22, 2021 19:50 Tagged in Debugging Diagnostics Visual Studio

I have blogged about how tricky it can be to catch StackOverflowExceptions even with a great tool like procdump there ...

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Large Tech taking on inequality

January 14, 2021 2:39 Tagged in Diversity

I had meant to talk about Microsoft’s commitment to battling inequality earlier this year but I have to be honest it ...

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Catching Stack Overflow Exceptions

December 15, 2020 20:34 Tagged in .NET .NET Core

In the last couple of weeks I have seen at least three colleagues ask about capturing memory dumps during stack ...

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Invalid Access to memory location in KUDU App Services

December 10, 2020 15:33 Tagged in Azure Debugging

So I came across an interesting problem where immediately following a CI/CD deployment it appeared as if my entire ...

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Always make room for kindness

December 04, 2020 2:44 Tagged in Musings

I found myself thinking about the qualities that are important to make me a better friend, husband, brother and ...

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Balancing promises in your software

November 13, 2020 2:50 Tagged in Development Process

My latest public conversation about software has just been uploaded! I talk to Robby Russell on his podcast series ...

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ASP.NET Community Standup - Updating Scott's blog to DasBlog Core

October 29, 2020 2:52 Tagged in DasBlog Core

Got invited onto the ASP.NET Community Standup this week to chat about DasBlog Core, the direct descendent of the ...

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A talk about Dump File analysis

October 27, 2020 0:12 Tagged in Debugging Diagnostics

I had a fun chat today with my colleague Mads Kristensen on the Visual Studio live stream today! Our topic was one that ...

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Simple AiMesh Wi-Fi System

October 23, 2020 3:28 Tagged in Hardware Network

With the growing number of work from home video calls I have been keeping an eye on my network connectivity. I am ...

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