I love this book title and description!
***Hardware Hacking: Have Fun While Voiding Your Warranty
Publisher: Syngress
ISBN: 1932266836
“Hardware Hacking” is for people who dream of running Linux on an Xbox and opening a garage door with a PDA. To successfully hack consumer and SOHO ….
I started the day reading “feh!” in a Kent Sharkey post and ended it with Ted Neward peppering a worthwhile rant with “chutzpah” and “oy”. It made me smile.
This is probably old news to many who have been playing with VB.NET Whidbey for a while…
I noticed that when debugging, if I didn’t have have NEW in a custom class, the debugger stops on code that instantiates that class, givint a little popup message “There is no source code for the current location.” You can hit okay and then just continue and all is fine. This is not affected by Option Explicit or Option Strict settings.
Probably something that has been duly noted by now. I wish I had time to do this stuff this summer when it would have been useful for the VB team.
Scott Nonnenburg, the Debugger PM, just posted a blog about visualizers and it’s not just a teaser it’s is a how-to.
Oh this is torturous! I want to drop everything and go play with this, now!
hmmm– not quite! I got a run time error not compile time. Any working examples out there?
SPOT outtage! Day old stock quotes. Yesterday’s weather. Hahahahah. Oops! Sorry, Scott, Sorry Peter.
The DevDays web track last session goes over Microsoft’s entry to eWeek’s 2002 OpenHack contest – now renamed and even updated. Though we are reminded that Microsoft’s application was not hacked once even after 80,000 attempts, Oracle’s app did suffer a few hacks. Okay they were minor but… (here’s eWeek’s wrapup of that)