Kenny Kerr

Recently Daniel Moth from Microsoft UK asked me to write a short article for the MSDN Flash newsletter. The only caveat was that it absolutely had to be no more than 500 words. Yikes.

Today Novell announced that it has agreed to acquire PlateSpin. I spent five and half years helping to get PlateSpin started before moving on last year. Congratulations Stephen, Ari, John, Adam and the rest of the gang. You’ve certainly earned it.

BT has once again shut down my account for no reason. We’re shortly moving to a new house so I’m not even going to bother fighting it. I’m cancelling my BT account as well as my Virgin DSL, paying the cancelation fees, and looking for a cable provider that can offer both telephone and Internet access. I just can’t handle the stupidity of it all any longer.

My latest column is now available in the Visual Studio 2008 launch issue of MSDN Magazine.

I often get asked about unit testing native code and quite frankly I’ve never really had a good answer. Until now that is. Maria Blees was kind enough to share a unit testing framework she developed for C++ called WinUnit and I must say I’m really impressed. Go read about it now in her article published in this month’s issue of MSDN Magazine:

As I did last year, I thought I'd provide a quick summary of some of the highlights from 2007.

So far in the Parallel Programming with C++ series I've talked about asynchronous procedure calls (APCs) and how they can be used to build efficient and responsive client applications quite easily by waiting for I/O requests to complete asynchronously without having to create additional worker threads.

I know a lot of you are wondering what’s going on with Window Clippings. I had hoped to release another update this year but time has just slipped away. It’s turned into a pretty hectic year what with moving from Canada to the UK and starting a new job as a technology consultant in London, quite a departure from commercial software development.