Windows 7 went on sale today.
I’m enormously pleased about this because for the last two and a half years I’ve been working as a Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) on the Windows Fundamentals Reliability team. I joined the team (and Microsoft) right as Windows 7 development was getting underway and have been immersed in …
The summer Engineering Forum at Microsoft was held back at the start of June. It’s an annual week-long event where technical staff from across the company present lectures and hold roundtable discussions on a variety of engineering topics. All presentations were organized into topical groups called tracks. For example, there was a designing and testing …
A large part of my day job revolves around reliability—testing software reliability, testing operating system features that make the software running on it more reliable, working on test tools that look for reliability problems. I think about reliability a lot. And here’s the amazing conclusion I’ve come to:
No one knows what reliability is.
Or, to put …
When I was a graduate student at CSU, Chico I wrote my master’s thesis on how to implement Scheme-style continuations within the context of the .NET CLR – Implementing Continuations for a Virtual Machine Environment.
Traditional continuation implementation techniques depend on the ability to modify the area of memory holding the runtime call stack, but the CLR …
I know I’m – what, two years? – late with this, but the Gears of War ad with the cover of “Mad World” by Gary Jules and Michael Andrews is one of the best game advertisements ever.
The way the music recontextualizes the game footage astonishes me each time I watch it.
There are a couple more weblogs on lorelli.info. Emily started a new weblog at emily.lorelli.info. We also started a family weblog at family.lorelli.info.
The original photo galleries are still MIA. Eventually I’d like to get them back up at the new web host. I’ll probably change the format significantly though. I used to export pages straight …
Finally put a weblog back up. It’s Monday. The Olympics are on. Let’s go.