At work I develop an application that is employed in production plants all around the world. It can host a lot of different code modules from different developers, so the code it executes is pretty diverse. To be able to quickly react to any problems I implemented a crash-handler that makes a memory image of… Read More »
We’ve had some machines stop working with NI-MAX error 42HG08DD. Nothing found online on the error helped. I dug deeper into the binaries and found out it was a simple problem with file access rights. If you experience this, have a look at the access rights of the files under C:\ProgramData\National Instruments\Shared Memory. The MXSEventSharedMemory.tmp… Read More »
As a developer I wouldn’t exactly say that I thrive on pressure but it certainly is an important element in getting stuff done. QPC2 v5 has been in the works for over three years and I wanted to release it for almost as long, but there has always been this one more bug to fix… Read More »
A colleague of mine needed help wrapping some C DLLs for NodeJS. He’s using the Node FFI API for the wrapping, which unfortunately is a little light on documentation. The problem was that by default Node FFI wraps cdecl functions and there is no mention of stdcall anywhere. In fact the consensus on the net… Read More »