aWorkBlogByGus
Eric moves on...
Eric has decided to try something new after what I believe has been close to 10 years of compiler...
Author: Gus Perez (MS) Date: 08/12/2004
I can now type freely...ahhh.
I installed XP SP2 RC2 a little over a week or so ago. The greatest thing happened as a result...
Author: Gus Perez (MS) Date: 07/23/2004
Folklore.org
Somehow I came across the Folklore site which has a bunch of interesting early-Apple stories...
Author: Gus Perez (MS) Date: 07/02/2004
I'm behind...
The last few weeks have been the definition of busy for me. Getting beta 1 out the door hasn't...
Author: Gus Perez (MS) Date: 06/30/2004
Native -> Managed?
Today, I was asked for performance data comparing between C++ and C#. The reason they ask is the...
Author: Gus Perez (MS) Date: 06/30/2004
VS Editor team blog
My wife and other members of the VS editor team are now blogging. If you use VS, you might end up...
Author: Gus Perez (MS) Date: 06/21/2004
Mgmt Training at Mt. Si
I've been shacked up at the Rainbow Lodge Retreat with about twenty-something other MS managers this...
Author: Gus Perez (MS) Date: 06/10/2004
Santosh has a first post...
Another member of the C# compiler QA team has started blogging recently. Santosh is a very...
Author: Gus Perez (MS) Date: 05/28/2004
Power-save and me just don't get along
I've got a Samsung Syncmaster 213T flat panel display at home. I love it except for how power save...
Author: Gus Perez (MS) Date: 05/27/2004
Update
I haven't posted in a while so I figured I'd post a quick update on what's been going on (work and...
Author: Gus Perez (MS) Date: 05/27/2004
Cyrus blogs...
Cyrus is a developer on the C# IDE team and he's recently started blogging. In almost two days, he's...
Author: Gus Perez (MS) Date: 05/16/2004
C# response files
Over time I've answered, and I'm sure lots of other guys on the team have as well, a question along...
Author: Gus Perez (MS) Date: 04/29/2004
Keeping docs in Word and not in the browser
Today, I had one of those moments of minor frustration where a 'feature' bugged me. So I tried to...
Author: Gus Perez (MS) Date: 04/28/2004
Grant moves upstairs
Grant has been my next-(office)door neighbor for a long time now. But tomorrow it comes to an end as...
Author: Gus Perez (MS) Date: 04/22/2004
Random fun fact: Lines of code in our C# compiler test suite
For some reason, that I don't remember now actually, one of the guys on my team had to write a quick...
Author: Gus Perez (MS) Date: 04/22/2004
Got bugs?
“Any idea how many bugs may still be in the product?” A question I've been asked and...
Author: Gus Perez (MS) Date: 04/18/2004
New laptop is up and running
Got my new laptop today around 3pm. After spending ~2-3 hours, it's all ready to go. Got all the...
Author: Gus Perez (MS) Date: 04/16/2004
Busy, busy, busy
It's been almost a month since my last real post. Posts about ubercool bulldogs and mice (the furry...
Author: Gus Perez (MS) Date: 04/16/2004
Skateboarding Bulldog
Far from work-related, but a good break from it, check out the skateboarding bulldog. Be sure to...
Author: Gus Perez (MS) Date: 04/12/2004
C# Compiler warnings
I wrote the code snippet tool using Everett (VS7.1). At one point, I struggled for a bit with a typo...
Author: Gus Perez (MS) Date: 03/23/2004
Snippy - C# Code Snippet Editor
Update (1/31/08): It looks like Snippy has now found a home on CodePlex. I haven't been maintaining...
Author: Gus Perez (MS) Date: 03/22/2004
Snippy - A C# code snippet editor
I made it my weekend project to hack up an editor for code snippet files. If you don't know what...
Author: Gus Perez (MS) Date: 03/21/2004
The Disclaimer
Each post is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.
Author: Gus Perez (MS) Date: 03/20/2004
Setting up remote debugging under XP SP2
Check out this page for detailed steps on how to get remote debugging working after you've upgraded...
Author: Gus Perez (MS) Date: 03/19/2004
Unused referenced assemblies don't actually stick around
Thanks to all who joined us in the C# & Unit Testing chat today. It was fun and we'll try to do...
Author: Gus Perez (MS) Date: 03/18/2004
Uptime 2000 - Displays system's uptime transparently on your desktop
Features:A tiny Win32 application (C++) that displays the system's up-time either in a small...
Author: Gus Perez (MS) Date: 03/18/2004
Uptime 2000 - Tool to display your system uptime transparently on your desktop
I'm posting an old utility I wrote back in 2001 that displays your system's uptime transparently on...
Author: Gus Perez (MS) Date: 03/17/2004
Measuring test effectiveness
You can find the post here.
Author: Gus Perez (MS) Date: 03/17/2004
RightSideUp - Automatically rotates images based on EXIF data
Update (1/3/06): Find the latest info on RightSideUp on my main blog from now on. A .NET application...
Author: Gus Perez (MS) Date: 03/13/2004
Two more C# apps added: RightSideUp and Space Invaders
I've moved over a couple more of the apps from my old site that I've hacked up over time....
Author: Gus Perez (MS) Date: 03/12/2004
Space Invaders - Another clone of the classic game
A .NET version of the classic game. It's all written in C# and uses GDI+ (not DirectX) for graphics....
Author: Gus Perez (MS) Date: 03/12/2004
My Software Projects
Below is a list of C# (mostly) applications I've written over time. They're all free, so do as you...
Author: Gus Perez (MS) Date: 03/12/2004
C# and unit testing chat next Thursday (3/18)
Scott's post reminded me of the upcoming chat I got an invite for a few days ago. It's happening...
Author: Gus Perez (MS) Date: 03/12/2004
Wordy v1.01
My vocabulary consists of about 100 words in total (and that includes not-quite-words such as...
Author: Gus Perez (MS) Date: 03/10/2004
Wordy - Quick dictionary access via system tray
Another C# app I wrote ages ago that I still use on every single one of the machines I use. Wordy...
Author: Gus Perez (MS) Date: 03/10/2004
Anson's blogging...
Anson used to be the C# Compiler PM and has now been working on the Visual C# IDE team for a while....
Author: Gus Perez (MS) Date: 03/09/2004
ezClip v1.02
Back in the 7.0 days I wrote a little tool called ezClip. It's sole purpose was to allow me to...
Author: Gus Perez (MS) Date: 03/08/2004
ezClip - Command-line clipboard utility
This is a tiny C# application I wrote a while back that allows you to copy/paste files via the...
Author: Gus Perez (MS) Date: 03/08/2004
C# Team Bloggers
The list of C# team bloggers is now being maintained by Charlie Calvert. You can see his (much more...
Author: Gus Perez (MS) Date: 03/07/2004
Migrated some entries from the old blog...
I've moved over a few of the recent entries I made on the old blog as I plan on posting follow-ups...
Author: Gus Perez (MS) Date: 03/07/2004
Stochastic (aka Random) Testing
Paul Dietz commented on one of my posts about testing the compiler asking whether we do any "random...
Author: Gus Perez (MS) Date: 03/07/2004
Inline Warning Control
There has been plenty of talk on four of the bigger new features in the C# compiler/language:...
Author: Gus Perez (MS) Date: 03/07/2004
Testing the C# Compiler #2
Lots of questions were sent my way after the last post about testing the compiler. A lot of them can...
Author: Gus Perez (MS) Date: 03/07/2004
Testing the C# Compiler #1
One of my intentions when I first started this blog was to focus some on software testing in general...
Author: Gus Perez (MS) Date: 03/07/2004
My acting debut
Yesterday marked the first, and quite possibly last, acting job (unpaid) I've ever had. A friend of...
Author: Gus Perez (MS) Date: 03/07/2004
My Intro
A friend just pointed out to me that I should probably write up a quick intro post since the people...
Author: Gus Perez (MS) Date: 03/07/2004
I've decided. I'm making the move...
Goodbye Movable Type, hello .Text (and Scott). My old blog will be stopped after my next post to it...
Author: Gus Perez (MS) Date: 03/07/2004