Outside The Box blogs, Autodesk University anecdotes, articles, blog digests, and product news in chronological order. See Articles for the same material by subject.

Infinite Computing: Bah, Humbug!

· Personal, Industry

At Autodesk University, Autodesk CEO Carl Bass introduced the term “Infinite Computing” in an attempt to define Autodesk’s perspective on “the cloud” from a unique angle. I think the term is a brilliant and effective use of terminology because it focuses an otherwise nebulous concept and it radiates a sense of real and immediate purpose. …

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Debugging heap corruption with PageHeap

· Programming

Heap corruption bugs in C++ code can present some difficult debugging challenges. Often the actual corruption goes unnoticed until some apparently random point in the future when the corrupt memory is accessed by unrelated code. In such cases, it’s almost impossible to infer the location of the bug using typical debugging tools. …

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Windows offline files

· Tools

Notes on the Windows offline files cache and RoboCache, a command-line tool for managing it.

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