The first self-replicating pattern has been developed in Conway’s Game of Life.
Author: Gordon
Matter, Energy and Wonder
You know, life is mostly ordinary. But sometimes something shines through the veil of mere matter and energy to make you marvel.
The dreaded “Application failed to initialize properly”
Developing in Visual C++, I came across the dreaded “Application failed to initialize properly” error. This is usually caused by a missing DLL, but in this case all the DLLs were there.
I finally realized that a static variable in one of the DLLs was throwing an exception in its constructor, causing the load to fail.
VS 2005 & IE 8 Debugging Tip
I ran into the strangest problem today. After upgrading to IE8, my Visual Studio 2005 (this is for work on a legacy system) debugger would detach all by itself soon I hit F5 to debug an ASP.NET page via IIS.
Turns out this is due to IE8’s use of separate processes for tabs. To disable this behavior, set a DWORD value of 0 in the key HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main\TabProcGrowth.
Of course this negates the benefit of running tabs in separate processes, but the debugger will not automatically detach.
Update: make sure you set the registry value in the 32-bit hive.