March 06, 2009
A logic analyzer records bus communications between two chips. If you’ve ever had a problem getting two chips to talk, or wanted to reverse engineer a protocol, a logic analyzer is the tool you need to spy on the bus. The Logic is a USB logic analyzer with eight channels and sampling rates up ...
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February 13, 2009
A common method of troubleshooting is to count errors and the part with the most number of errors is the culprit. So Solaris has part of it's interface kstat structures. These structures are initialized and maintained since boot. However, this method of troubleshooting is flawed an...
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January 19, 2009
Code Execution has been interrupted: Continue - End - Debug - Help *Click Continue* *Repeat Indefinitely* Help?! Hopefully this error will resonate with someone else out there. It sounds hard to believe, but I experience it everyday. In Excel VBA, you can hit ctrl+break to interrupt your code execut...
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December 02, 2008
While working on a silverlight application for my current engagement, we were seeing some weird memory issues and application crashes. I won't bore you with the initial investigation of the issue, but it turns out we need to delve deep into what was going on behind the scenes. A fellow colleague and...
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November 19, 2008
We’re always excited to get a new chip or SIM card to interface, but our enthusiasm is often dampened by the prototyping process. Interfacing any chip usually means breadboarding a circuit, writing code, and hauling out the programmer; maybe even a prototyping PCB. A few years ago we built the...
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October 11, 2008
Our workshop was for Blogging Basics: personalize, polish, and promote your blog. Danielle Henderson, Alissa Kriteman, and Meghan Garnum joined me on the stage. Kristy got us in touch with Elliot, the hotel employee setting up the projector, who found all the stuff and the cables and hooked everythi...
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liz
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August 12, 2008
Here’s what I’ve been reading between June 24th and August 12th: Open Source Project Management Tools in Java - Only Ubuntu Linux: Fix for SSH slow to ask for password in Ubuntu Feisty Fawn - An Introduction to JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) - buildr - LoadRunner visual tutorials - DE...
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July 04, 2008
I am working on an interesting pet project that has a fairly rich UI. A rich UI means dealing with events, and I had a wake up call on what a pain it can be to deal with in the browser world. I ended up on a wild goose chase that ended up having a simple solution. Imagine one section of an applicati...
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May 27, 2008
Internet Information Services (IIS) 7.0 adds some significant new functionality to the manageability and customization of error messages. The three main areas of improvement when compared to IIS 6.0 are Custom vs. Detailed error pages, better configurability of custom errors, and language-specific c...
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May 06, 2008
After 6 hours of massive anxiety, stress, near tears, one pound on my desk, and some hair pulling, I tracked down the source of a nagging Disallowed Key Character error that I received while using CodeIgniter: an extra line break. The line feed (LF) and carriage return (CR) characters (and their hex...
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