Got Kernel?

A very public place to store those little bits of information i know i will need sometime down the track

Implement Background Audio for Modern Windows Applications

I had a requirement to test some background audio scenarios for my team and found it more difficult...

Author: Chad Duffey Date: 06/27/2014

DRAM refresh & PASR

You can think of DRAM like a big array of buckets for storing electrical charge. Every bucket...

Author: Chad Duffey Date: 03/14/2014

What is Application Launch Prefetching?

In a nutshell, it is about speeding up the launch of Windows client applications by optimizing the...

Author: Chad Duffey Date: 03/14/2014

Fessing up. The "30 minute application" took a couple of weeks...

Yep, in the end, the "30 minute application" took me a couple of weeks to get into the...

Author: Chad Duffey Date: 03/14/2014

"Build" a Windows Phone App in 30 minutes using only your web browser

It is incredibly easy to build a real Windows Phone application. So easy, you could do it with your...

Author: Chad Duffey Date: 02/21/2014

Fun with Breakpoints

In the previous post we looked at the task of attaching a debugger to a Windows machine. The topic...

Author: Chad Duffey Date: 02/16/2014

Cheat Sheet: Break into a Windows machine with a debugger

Short version - there steps: 1. Enable debugging on the Windows guest machine. 2. Change the VM...

Author: Chad Duffey Date: 02/15/2014

Connected Standby & You

Connected Standby is an improved standby mode available on some Windows 8 (& 8.1) devices....

Author: Chad Duffey Date: 02/15/2014