Blogs|Mar 2, 2014

ProcMonDebugOutput Now on GitHub

A few years ago Mark Russinovich and I put together a feature in SysInternal’s Process Monitor where you can add tracing statements to the log. (Here’s the original post.) The idea was that by seeing your tracing in line with the wonderful Process Monitor I/O reporting, it would be easier to track down problems in…
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Blogs|Feb 23, 2014

ProcDump Post Mortem Switches: Order Matters

This week I’m working behind the “Great Firewall” in China and Twitter is blocked by the Chinese government, but my blog is not. I would have tweeted this but instead dear reader, you get the complete back story along with the debugging challenge on how I figured out the problem. While working with a customer…
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Blogs|Feb 20, 2014

Breaking Radio Silence

My coworkers at Wintellect have reminded me that it’s been a really long time since I’ve posted an entry to my weblog. About two and a half years actually. That’s a long time, and if you happened to be one of my readers you might have wondered what happened to me? Did Keith take another…
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Blogs|Feb 19, 2014

What is the difference between JavaScript null and undefined?

  Primitives Let me begin by asking if you knew that there were only 3 primitives or primary types in JavaScript that can hold a value. That’s right, only 3. No more. No less. They are number, string and boolean. These are not objects. I know your dad said everything in JavaScript is an Object…
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Blogs|Feb 13, 2014

Deleting Entities In Windows Azure Table Storage

As I mentioned in my last blog post, I’m doing some work to bring the usage model of mongoose to .NET. As part of this I’m exploring implementation details of various NoSQL libraries in order to map CRUD-style semantics of each implementation onto a common higher-order model. I’m starting first with Azure Table Storage. Each…
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Blogs|Feb 10, 2014

Enterprise Adoption of NoSQL

For all of its obvious success, I still think that NoSQL is underutilized (or, at least, misunderstood) in the enterprise. Some of this can be explained by inertia… the classic relational model has ruled the roost for decades, and certainly isn’t going away anytime soon. Enterprises have significant skillset and infrastructure investments in the care…
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Blogs|Feb 10, 2014

Use Zone to Trigger Angular Digest Loop for External Functions

To continue my series on the power of Zone, I examine yet another powerful and useful way you can use zones to improve your application. If this is your first time learning about Zone, read my introduction to Zone titled Taming Asynchronous Tasks in JavaScript with Zone.js. Anyone familiar with Angular apps has run into…
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Blogs|Feb 8, 2014

Instrumenting Angular with Zone

In my last post I described an open source tool from the Angular team called Zone that allows you to execute a JavaScript workflow within an execution context. I demonstrated how to instrument a sequence of asynchronous events using Zone. This is a short post to follow-up and illustrate how to do the same thing…
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Blogs|Jan 30, 2014

WintellectNOW Authors on the Road Jan-June 2014

Now that 2014 is in full-swing we wanted to update you all on where you could find your favorite authors the first part of this year. You will find them speaking or exhibiting…or maybe a little of both!         South Florida Code Camp Feb. 22, Fort Lauderdale, FL   CodePaLOUsa Feb. 24-27,…
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Blogs|Jan 30, 2014

WintellectRAW: Tim Huckaby

Welcome to WintellectRAW – featurettes about your favorite authors.  Each month we’ll give you a quick glimpse into the life of a WintellectNOW author – how they got their start, some of their hobbies, their favorite projects, and more!   This month we feature Tim Huckaby, a Microsoft Regional Director, MVP, and one of the…
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wintellect-blogs|Jan 22, 2014

Head First Design Patterns – Part 1: Observer Pattern

My thoughts on patterns I’ll be honest with you…I never did like design patterns. I never got on board with it and, instead, just coded away like I thought I was supposed to do. Now, I realize they’re a bit of a necessary evil to learn, for the main reason just to be able to…
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