I've just put together an installer for Wildcat BZR on Windows. This includes everything that is required to run the application - no previous installations of Bazaar or any other python-related things are required.

wildcatbzr.exe MD5: 32c87c37a11f27a8834f6e98b7125f87

I have re-worked the algorithm for reading the directory structure and Bazaar status of files in Wildcat BZR, and verified that it works correctly on Windows XP:

I've read a few reports which have mentioned a problem with .NET's String.IsNullOrEmpty static method where under certain circumstances it can cause a null reference exception at runtime. Bill at MSMVPS.COM has as article with some sample source code that can be used to test this problem.

I've done some experimentation and found that it only occurs when a program is compiler in release mode and run outside of the development environment on a PC with .NET 2.0 installed. Debug builds are not affected and neither are computers running Mono.

It looks like this may be a bug in the optimizations performed by Microsoft's .NET CLR or JIT on Windows. Microsoft have posted an article addressing this issue and have stated that it will be fixed in the Orcas CLR beta 1.

Needless to say, the .NET developer community are shocked that a flaw in the CLR with such serious consequences as this will not be fixed in the current version, but instead people will need to upgrade to a new and relatively untested technology preview.

Apple released the Safari 3 web browser for OS X and Windows today. Download it here.

As Twitter is becoming the latest cool way of keeping touch with friends and generally yapping or moaning about stuff, I decided to take a look at a few desktop client applications for Twitter. I looked at four - two on the Mac and two on Windows: TwitterPost, Twitterrific, VisualTwit and Twitteroo. I thought Twitterrific on the Mac was the nicest of them all:

Twitteroo was the best Windows one I found:

When I logged into my computer at work this morning, Windows decided to protect me from itself, and presented me with this:

On Sunday night I ended up being too tired to The Shed and stayed in and messed around with Mono and XSP instead. Monday was my Mum's birthday so I went down to visit for a while, then struggled to get to The Stand without being too late for Dance Monkey Boy Dance. This is the first time I've been back at the stand after their few weeks off at the end of the summer. I've been working on a project involving CGI scripts running inside Apache web server on Microsoft Windows this week, and not having a good time. Apache randomly crashes and usually takes 5 minutes to pass requests onto the Perl script. I'm now building Apache 2 from source to attempt to work out what's going wrong. |