The OldWood Thing

Blog: The OldWood Thing

Markdown based archive of my Blogger hosted blog – The OldWood Thing – using GitHub pages at https://chrisoldwood.github.io/Blog.

2026

• The Illusion of a One-Time Set-Up
• The Case of the Disappearing App

2025

• Codurance AI Hackathon
• A Decade of Lightning Talks with Programming One-Liners
• How Do I Test This?

2024

2023

• Unpacking Code Ownership

2022

• WMI Performance Anomaly: Querying the Number of CPU Cores

2021

2020

2019

2018

2017

2016

2015

2014

2013

2012

2011

2010

• Exception Safe By Design
• Reacquainting Myself With Sed & Awk
• My ACCU 2011 Session Proposal - Using xUnit As a Swiss Army Testing Toolkit
• Implementing Constants & Enumerations in a Database
• What’s Exceptional Depends on Context
• IDisposable’s Should Assert In Their Finalizer
• Stored Procedures Are About More Than Just Performance
• Where’s the PowerShell/Python/IYFSLH*?
• Simple Database Build & Deployment With SQLCMD
• Unit Testing Evolution Part I - Structure
• Windows Batch File Template
• Oldwood v4.0
• Debug & Release Database Schemas
• The Dying Art of RTFM
• Refactoring – Do You Tell Your Boss?
• My ACCU Conference 2010 Lightning Talk
• Happy Birthday, Blog
• Object Finalized Whilst Invoking a Method
• Turning Unconscious Incompetence to Conscious Incompetence
• Lured Into the foreach + lambda Trap
• Integration Testing with NUnit
• Cleaning up svn:mergeinfo Droppings
• WCF Service Refusing Connections
• xUnit Style Database Unit Testing
• Coders at Work – Jamie Zawinski
• Process Explorer Failed to Display DLLs or Handles
• My [Unit] Testing Epiphany
• WCF Weirdy – NetTcpBinding, EndpointIdentity and Programmatic Configuration
• TFD vs TLD – What’s The Definition of “Later”?
• Company-Wide IRC Style Chat & Messaging
• Why is C++ Getting Left on the Bench?
• Two Book Reviews Published in This Month’s C Vu Magazine
• So Long and Thanks For All the Onions

2009

• From SourceSafe to ClearCase to Subversion
• C# + C++ + C++/CLI – Context Switch Hell
• Adjusting to the C#/.Net Ecosystem
• Standard Method Name Verb Semantics
• My New Blogging Machine
• Happy 21st/12th Anniversary
• A Chip Off the Old Block
• Stack Overflow Dev Days – London
• DDE Is Still Alive & Kicking
• We Don’t Use IE6 Out of Choice
• The Perils of Intellisense
• Going Back to Work
• My First Published Articles
• Using Visual C++ Together With GCC - Some Alternatives
• GCC for the Visually C++ Impaired
• Where Are the “Lite” Editions of Static Code Analysis Tools?
• The Default ‘Size’ & ‘Index’ Type: size_t vs int
• Visual C++, the INCLUDE variable and the /USEENV switch
• Building Visual C++ Projects From the Command Line
• Class Generator v2.0 Released
• Visual C++ Project Compare v1.0 Released
• BCS Talk - An Introduction to F#
• A Potted History of My Windows Framework
• Who is the ACCU?
• An apology to Raymond Chen

---

See Also

• Tools – the scripts used for archiving.