Category Archives: Programming

Microsoft’s PowerShell hangs when output is captured using Windows API

Posted on August 15, 2011 by Maris

I was debugging a program that uses Windows API (Creating a Child Process with Redirected Input and Output) to capture stdout of Microsoft’s Windows PowerShell. Script passed to PowerShell (-File switch) didn’t execute and PowerShell just hanged until killed by … Continue reading →

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2011 links no. 2

Posted on July 31, 2011 by Maris

Stack Overflow profiler open sourced: Profiling your website like a true Ninja. Smaller is Faster (and Safer Too). Chrome team have just started using a new compression algorithm called Courgette to make Google Chrome updates small. Read more. Ask Amir … Continue reading →

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Urih.com has online resource viewer for executable files

Posted on July 28, 2011 by Maris

One of very interesting online tool we launched in urih.com is online resource viewer for executable files. We call it – Portable executable online viewer. This new (online) tool can be used like any old (offline) tool to view images … Continue reading →

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Strange HTTP GET requests from IP 150.70.x.x and IP 62.24.x.x

Posted on July 8, 2011 by Maris

Recently I started to notice that one of our sites gets strange HTTP GET requests from two IP ranges: 150.70.x.x and IP 62.24.x.x. The short version of this goes as follows: we have web service when users can submit results … Continue reading →

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Call to OpenFileDialog or SaveFileDialog hangs or freezes

Posted on June 8, 2011 by Maris

Today I was debugging a very strange issue when call to OpenFileDialog and SaveFileDialog hanged, froze, never returned… At first I thought the problem is, that call is made from SysTray (Notification area) hidden window. However, digging deeper things got … Continue reading →

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2011 links no. 1

Posted on May 9, 2011 by Maris

3D Software Rendering Engine – Part I by darkoman. Fluent CSV/XML Exporter For List by Sacha Barber allows to export / save any C# container to CSV and XML. Push Framework – A C++ toolkit for high performance server development … Continue reading →

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fatal error C1083: Cannot open include file: ‘ammintrin.h’: No such file or directory

Posted on April 15, 2011 by Maris

I can not compile my C++ projects after installing ‘Security Update for Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 (KB2455033)’, see my yesterday’s post: Security Update for Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 (KB2455033) failed with Code 643. Visual Studio 2010 shows the following error: … Continue reading →

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Security Update for Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 (KB2455033) failed with Code 643

Posted on April 14, 2011 by Maris

Yesterday tried to install ‘Security Update for Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 (KB2455033)’ via Windows update on Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit but it failed with Code 643. Installation constantly failed with Code 643 – Some updates were not installed. Currently Google … Continue reading →

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Test Silverlight speed or Test CPU speed with Silverlight

Posted on April 14, 2011 by Maris

While we were developing SilverBench (online multicore CPU benchmarking with Silverlight), I found one interesting benchmark project. It is called Balls / Bubblemark animation test. You can test and directly compare speed / performance for the following programming languages: JavaScript, … Continue reading →

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Underused features of Windows batch files

Posted on April 13, 2011 by Maris

StackOverflow have another interesting topic about: Underused features of Windows batch files. Of course there are many things I didn’t know about. Some highlights: PUSHD path Takes you to the directory specified by path. POPD Takes you back to the … Continue reading →

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