This post is being sent using Word 2007. To blog the currently open document, go to Publish->Blog, to create a new blog post, go to New and Choose Blog Post. While registering, I stumbled on the space name part. It stands for the "unique part" in the URL. From the documentation: "Your space name is [...]

A few days ago, some of us in my group were discussing about the GC mechanism used in the CLR. It was an interesting discussion, and like most discussions, inconclusive. So I decided to put (almost) everything interesting to know about the GC on paper. Some of the people who read this, particularly Vinod – [...]

In a couple of previous posts, I have talked about how all of us would need to write more concurrent code because of increasing number of cores in the CPU. Well, it seems that many-core becoming mainstream will happen sooner than expected. Here are some examples:   NVidia has a 128 stream processor chip: http://www.nvidia.com/page/geforce_8800.html    [...]

Like most people I too have struggled with finding a solution for mounting an ISO image in a virtual drive. My old solution -Alchohol 120% – does not work on Windows Vista and they do not give a date when they will have a solution. So I did some research and found the following:   [...]

Jan 132007

Microsoft recently released an Anti-Cross Site Scripting Library.   "For defence in depth, developers may wish to use the Microsoft Anti-Cross Site Scripting Library to encode output. This library differs from most encoding libraries in that it uses the "principle of inclusions" technique to provide protection against XSS attacks. This approach works by first defining [...]