Archive for March 7th, 2008

Debugging Architects

Friday, March 7th, 2008

They know buzzwords like heap corruption, buffer overflow and multi-threading, talk about designing maintainable software but unable to cope with real-life debugging scenarios. I remember old days in one company where the executable Rational Rose Real-Time model with IDebug interface crashed and the whole team of software designers couldn’t find the defect in code and when I pointed them to the problem source code line after loading and running the executable under the Visual Studio debugger I was nominated as an expert in implementation.

- Dmitry Vostokov @ DumpAnalysis.org -

Thinking Out of the Box

Friday, March 7th, 2008

Q. Every time you open the specific Microsoft Word 2007 document on Vista WER error message box appears on the screen (click on the picture to enlarge):

What might be the cause of it?

You can find the correct answer in the comments to this post. 

- Dmitry Vostokov @ DumpAnalysis.org -