Archive for October 2008

Minimizing memory footprint

My work on ABC-tool keeps looping back to optimizing memory usage. The ABC-tool application runs on Windows PCs which means that it has a 2 GB memory limit (typically). The largest datasets I have every run across is about 150 MB in size – but this was XML-files and the data part was significantly smaller. [...]

Visual Studio – Again!

Once again Visual Studio has proven troubleish! I’ve spent the last hour trying to find out why our project at work wouldn’t compile (complaining about missing files) on other machines but would on mine! I went through every file in the repository and confirmed that it was up to date. I confirmed that the same [...]

Office 2007 formats

I haven’t followed the great format wars over the last year or so – and I must admit that it had slipped out of my consciousness for a bit. Until I saw Mortens post the other day (warning: the link is in danish). After reading this post my mind spent 5 seconds looping through all [...]