Peter Torr's Blog
Posts about Windows [Phone] application development. And other stuff.
Regex perf bug
While trying to get a WordML -> HTML conversion that would work reasonably well with .TEXT, I...
Author: Peter Torr - MSFT Date: 01/05/2004
Series on secure programming
Over at IBM, there's a series on secure programming. It's mainly focused on Linux, but you can apply...
Author: Peter Torr - MSFT Date: 12/31/2003
We really need to work on our web site
Have a look at the home page for Mac OS X. Now have a look at the home page for Windows XP...
Author: Peter Torr - MSFT Date: 12/31/2003
What is "innovation"?
Another quickie.Raymond has a comment that illustrates a common theme in the IT industry: it's one...
Author: Peter Torr - MSFT Date: 12/30/2003
Wet paper bag or industrial safe?
A quick post this time (I promise!)Pop Quiz, hotshot. What's more secure: (i) a wet paper bag...
Author: Peter Torr - MSFT Date: 12/29/2003
Problems with dotWord
It seems that whatever transform Rob did to make WordBlogX work with BlogX doesn't work too well...
Author: Peter Torr - MSFT Date: 12/28/2003
What I'd like to see in blog schemas
Nary a day goes by when Robert Scoble doesn't have something on his blog about RSS versus ATOM or...
Author: Peter Torr - MSFT Date: 12/23/2003
Hacked up using dotWord
I'm posting this with a hacked-up version of WordBlogX that has been trivially modified to talk to...
Author: Peter Torr - MSFT Date: 12/23/2003
Testing the web service
This is a quick test of the .Text web service. Please ignore!
Author: Peter Torr - MSFT Date: 12/23/2003
Moved to ASP.NET
As previously announced, I have made my new home at https://weblogs.asp.net/ptorr/ My "first post" is...
Author: Peter Torr - MSFT Date: 12/22/2003
Moving to asp.net!
This is just a quick post to say I've moved to weblogs.asp.net and after this week won't be posting...
Author: Peter Torr - MSFT Date: 12/21/2003
Testing from InfoPath
I decided to build a simple InfoPath form based on the BlogX web service. Seems to be a pretty...
Author: Peter Torr - MSFT Date: 12/19/2003
Redefining a function in JScript
Taking a leaf out of Eric's book, I'm going to re-post a question I received in mail here. The...
Author: Peter Torr - MSFT Date: 12/10/2003
More geeky language stuff
British English tends to have more irregular forms than American English (learnt vs learned, spelt...
Author: Peter Torr - MSFT Date: 12/09/2003
Collapsing vocabulary
Eric recently had a post that generated a lot of comments about how the spelling of various words in...
Author: Peter Torr - MSFT Date: 12/06/2003
What does "Save As..." mean, anyway?
I'm in the middle of writing another blog entry about saving (note to self: add a link later) which...
Author: Peter Torr - MSFT Date: 12/05/2003
VSTO doc team blogging
Paul Cornell (Documentation manager for the VSTO group) has started a blog and it looks like other...
Author: Peter Torr - MSFT Date: 12/04/2003
OK so I'm a big fat liar
All you lucky people in England have probably been hearing this on the radio for a while now, but I...
Author: Peter Torr - MSFT Date: 11/29/2003
Things not to do with client-side script
Browsing Slashdot, I saw an article about some browser-based encryption code called JavaScrypt (ha...
Author: Peter Torr - MSFT Date: 11/29/2003
The kind of bug I like to see
The other day a customer reported the first "real" bug in Visual Studio Tools for Office. I put...
Author: Peter Torr - MSFT Date: 11/22/2003
Avoiding work any way I can...
So I promised a while ago not to gush about the Pet Shop Boys for a while, but I never said anything...
Author: Peter Torr - MSFT Date: 11/21/2003
Cross-application coding and other questions
Here's some questions for any of you that do (or perhaps would like to do) Office development. They...
Author: Peter Torr - MSFT Date: 11/20/2003
Downtime
If any of you have tried to access some of the GotDotNet blogs over the past few days, you may have...
Author: Peter Torr - MSFT Date: 11/20/2003
[Philosophical Question, Part ]
Yesterday I posed a question about how clear you conscience can be if you leave your post and bad...
Author: Peter Torr - MSFT Date: 11/12/2003
Philosophical Question
Here's something to think about. Say you're employed by a company that makes confectionary (candy /...
Author: Peter Torr - MSFT Date: 11/12/2003
Hackers about
Like a lot of people, I like to look at my Referrers page to see how popular I am and how people...
Author: Peter Torr - MSFT Date: 11/07/2003
Now you see 'em, now you... still do?
In a recent post I joked about hiding sensitive text in a Word document by formatting it as 1-point...
Author: Peter Torr - MSFT Date: 11/06/2003
OfficeZealot Blogs
The guys over at OfficeZealot have started blogging... hopefully they'll get some interesting...
Author: Peter Torr - MSFT Date: 11/04/2003
Making Movies
[This post is for "Da G-Playa" -- you know who you are ;-)]There are two types of people in this...
Author: Peter Torr - MSFT Date: 11/04/2003
PDC Session on Office Development with VS "Whidbey"
If you're going to the PDC in LA this year and you're interested in Office development, you should...
Author: Peter Torr - MSFT Date: 10/23/2003
Watch out, there's a Kiwi about
So Michael Howard (of "Writing Secure Code" fame) has got a blog. He's using WordBlogX, but...
Author: Peter Torr - MSFT Date: 10/23/2003
LiveJournal.com
I check my referrers page most days (well, most hours to be exact ;-) ) and I always seem to have...
Author: Peter Torr - MSFT Date: 10/23/2003
Running scared
So here's something really silly. As you probably know, I run my machine pretty well locked down....
Author: Peter Torr - MSFT Date: 10/21/2003
See also...
Eric has a blog that makes my ActiveX Control of Ultimate Destruction look like Sunday School Picnic...
Author: Peter Torr - MSFT Date: 10/20/2003
Influencing Hollywood
The other day, I went to see Lost in Translation with a friend at the Bellevue Galleria cinemas....
Author: Peter Torr - MSFT Date: 10/19/2003
[Part ] is coming...
So the other day I wrote an entry about code repurposing, and how it was the end of the world....
Author: Peter Torr - MSFT Date: 10/19/2003
Why is the VSTO project folder named Project_bin?
I just received some e-mail from someone who was not sure why we chose Project_bin as the output...
Author: Peter Torr - MSFT Date: 10/17/2003
Unfinished songs
Don't you hate it when you're in your car with a really cool song on the stereo and you reach your...
Author: Peter Torr - MSFT Date: 10/17/2003
SecurityFocus Article
Thor Larholm from PivX Solutions has an article on SecurityFocus that is a response to a previous...
Author: Peter Torr - MSFT Date: 10/14/2003
WordBlogX 1.1 Coming Along Nicely...
Rob and I are both working on WordBlogX tonight. We've got the WordML -> HTML conversion working...
Author: Peter Torr - MSFT Date: 10/14/2003
Another debugging tip
I wrote about a few debugging tips for VSTO the other day. Something else just came up this morning...
Author: Peter Torr - MSFT Date: 10/13/2003