Newsflash! After years of postponing the inevitable I've decided that a real blog is a better place to toss random thoughts. You can find my far more frequent posts at randomascii.wordpress.com.

On /analyze:

• Adventures with /Analyze for Visual Studio — the Good
• /Analyze for Visual Studio — the Ugly (part 1)
• /Analyze for Visual Studio — the Ugly (part 2), False Negatives
• /Analyze for Visual Studio — the Ugly (part 3), False Positives
• /Analyze for Visual Studio — the Ugly (part 4), False Negatives

On xperf

• “Performance Analyzer doesn’t process traces while elevated”
• Xperf and Visual Studio: The Case of the Breakpoint Hangs
• Visual C++ Debug Builds–”Fast Checks” Cause 5x Slowdowns
• Making VirtualAlloc Arbitrarily Slower
• Xperf Basics: Recording a Trace
• Xperf Resources
• Xperf Analysis Basics
• PowerPoint Poor Performance Problem
• Xperf for Excess CPU Consumption
• Faster Fractals Through Better Scheduling

Here are some other random posts:

• Photo Tagging Update
• MythBusters Math Mix-up - really? They can't calculate percentages?
• Photo Tagging with Windows Live Photo Gallery
• Bit-field Packing with Visual C++
• Perfect Pikmin - now with all days posted on YouTube

The current list of papers is:

• Riding the STP on a unicycle, again
• Ride the Lobster -- riding Nova Scotia on a unicycle
• Riding the STP on a unicycle
• Comparing Floats - as Integers
• x86 Processors and Infinity
• Game Scripting in Python from GDC 2002
• What Happened to my Colours!?! Displaying Console Computer Graphics on a TV - available here.
• Precompiled headers in VC++
• Game Programming Gems 2 - Micro-Threads for Game Object AI
• Game Programming Gems 2 - Game Input Recording and Playback
• Debugging release executables with VC++
• Structured Exception Handling, Jan 1999 Game Developer Magazine - code available
• Playing Perfect Pikmin - a guide to the nine day, zero deaths Pikmin challenge
• Printing Digital Pictures - a guide to photo printing sites
• Calculating PI - fourteen decimal places with pen and paper

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