Monthly Archives: September 2007

Free Music on the Web

Posted on September 22, 2007 by Jim

Back in the early 90s, Jeff Duntemann published a book called something like Free Stuff from the Internet. I don’t remember all of what it described, but it opened my eyes to a whole new world of stuff that I … Continue reading →

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Improper Use of Exceptions

Posted on September 5, 2007 by Jim

The .NET Framework’s ReaderWriterLock class API is broken. How? It uses exceptions where it should use return values. Consider the AcquireReaderLock method, which you call with a timeout value. If the timeout expires before the lock is acquired, the method … Continue reading →

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Helpful (not) error message

Posted on September 2, 2007 by Jim

I’m installing Windows 2000 on a machine here at home to do some testing. Windows 2000 is great for this kind of thing, although I’m finding that certain things aren’t supported on it anymore. New versions of DirectX, for example, … Continue reading →

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