Software Sleuthing
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2011 9
- Blog Migration
- Your Password is Too Secure
- WinDbg / i386kd Primer
- Console output with a transparent background color
- How Testers Test versus How Users Use
- Hex Conversion via a Batch File
- Common Process Termination Values
- Batch File String Substitution with Nested Environment Variables
- Limits of OLEDB and Access Passwords
2009 9
2008 52
- MiniDumps and "Bad" Stacks
- Upcoming Testing Conferences (1st half of 2009)
- New Xbox Experience
- Off to StarWest
- Save My Image File's Metadata
- Running 32bit dependent scripts in a 64bit world
- CreateObject fails with 0x80040154
- Testing when "the code is the documentation"
- Security Tools: Codenomicon
- Bad Error Messages: "Operation Failed"
- Developer Tip: Add a blank macro so testers can inject code
- Upcoming Testing Conferences (2nd half of 2008)
- Leave well enough alone
- Digital LEGOs
- Custom "View Source" Application on IE
- Compile First, then Check-In
- Free Security Book: HAC
- Know Thine Product's Language
- Automating Crash Dump Analysis: Some Final Thoughts
- Showing the Disassembly from a .DMP File (Automating Crash Dump Analysis Part 4)
- Getting the Crash Details from a .DMP File (Automating Crash Dump Analysis Part 3)
- Getting the Stack from a .DMP File (Automating Crash Dump Analysis Part 2)
- Opening a Crash Dump File (Automating Crash Dump Analysis Part 1)
- Prolific Usage of MiniDumpWriteDump (Automating Crash Dump Analysis Part 0)
- New Old Group
- Résumé Tip: Don't turn on revision tracking
- Automating Large Image Conversion with Photoshop
- You Don't Need a Zune to use the Zune Software (aka "yet another free media player")
- Colossal Handle Leak
- StrCmpLogicalA
- Validating a company email alias with Outlook
- Automating DOC to PDF Conversion
- Automating GIF charts from Excel
- NULLize the throwing new
- Writing Strings with OLE (CCommand)
- Zune Floor Mat == Coaster
- Poor-Man's Profiler
- Selecting Random Seeds
- API Testing Best Practices
- Poor-Man’s ISAPI Filter
- Zune-Arts + Valentines = ?
- Electrical Catastrophe and Waste
- Tester Center: White-Box Fuzzing
- Zune Combos
- Organizing My Favorites (Dewey Style)
- Custom Debugger Auto-Expansion Tips
- Zune == 1337 + 1
- Testing Your PDB Files
- There Be HRESULTs Here
- Google’s Chart API
- Social Experiment
- Leak Tracking with PowerShell