Every now and then when I see a poor practice of programmers, I think about the possibility of a world where such mistakes do not happen. I think about what I can do to make that future a possibility.
Technology Dreams
October 24th, 2009Long Trips to and from Work
October 22nd, 2009For a while, there will be long trips to and from work for me. This is all due to a propane tanker that exploded along the route to my work.
Migrated to WordPress
October 22nd, 2009I have migrated my blogging to my personal site in a WordPress installation. Check it out at http://gurganus.name/brant.
Ghostbusters
October 22nd, 2009Earlier this year, I started hearing rumors about a third Ghostbusters movie. After Ghostbusters
Security Tools
October 20th, 2009Security is an interest of mine, so I wanted to describe some computer security tools I use. By no means does the use of these tools mean I am secure though. Security itself is more an attitude than a state. I recommend such books as Writing Secure Code, Second Edition
Tracking Down Memory Corruption
October 20th, 2009For some time now, Internet Explorer has crashed for me in sometimes random scenarios. Before you get to bashing Internet Explorer, the main culprit behind Internet Explorer crashing is some sort of plugin or add-on. Therefore, with each crash, I use WinDbg to attach to the crash and do an analysis to determine a most likely cause. With the guidance of what it reports, I instructed Adobe Reader to not open in the browser, removed the Upromise Turbosaver for now, and removed the Skype plugin for Internet Explorer. With those changes alone, the Internet Explorer stability seems to have improved. There’s still something more happening though.
A Day of More Productivity
October 18th, 2009I ended up more productive than I have been lately.
Using Tools
October 17th, 2009Testing is an area of direction lately with my work. It seems that some work was done by a prior employee developing some tests, but it was never integrated into an automated system.
Value of a Post
October 16th, 2009Each night I think of something to post about. Sometimes that is a challenge. But why do it?