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Register WinDbg as the default debugger - How to quickly switch between WinDbg and Dr Watson as the default postmortem debugger.

MapCapsLockToCtrl - That Caps Lock has to go.  Get more Control on your Home row.  Here the royal we instructs you to swap your CapsLock and Ctrl keys.

First-chance exception from a Property Sheet? Solved. - Wrong styles and other entries in a property sheet's resource block can cause messy first-chance exceptions.

A gotcha in CPropertySheet, DoModal - A property sheet I was developing was being called through DoModal, yet was acting modelessly.  Here's how and why.

MapCapsLockToEscape - I very rarely use Caps Lock, yet I'm reaching for Escape hundreds of times per day.  Alas, this is the lot of a vim user.  By remapping Caps Lock to Escape, I can switch modes in vim without leaving the home keys.

MultipleJavaVersionsInWindows - Use JAVA_HOME in your PATH to simplify side-by-side Java installs.

WindowsDebugSymbols - A reminder of the public Microsoft Windows symbol server location.  Public .pdb files to help you get to the bottom of that nasty bug.

Conditional breakpoints in WinDBG - A quick example of the syntax of setting a conditional breakpoint in WinDBG.

CppNamespaceAlias - Describes how, why and when to use namespace aliasing to reduce code clutter in your C++ sources.

MySQL Lectures On Google Videos - Three lectures on MySQL: performance, clustering and the engine.

I write mostly in C/C++, but horses for courses.  Python for this site, Javascript for interactive browser-based (and client-server) Apps, Java for low complexity and programs that aren't "close to the machine" / "close to the silicon".  Bash for convenience, VBscript for automation.  Erlang for abstracted large-scale parallelism.  PHP and MySQL for quick web apps.

Juicy Data is written using the Google App Engine, and is based on the cccwiki example application.  GAE is Python based.

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