Rambling Comments - Len Holgate's blog

The code for this series of articles is now available on GitHub and has been updated for Visual Studio 2022.

I’ve been playing around with Rust recently and whilst investigating asynchronous programming in Rust I was looking at Tokio, an async runtime.

Back in 2004 I started a series of blog posts called “Practical Testing”, about unit testing a non-trivial piece of C++ code.

I’m currently reading Rust Brain Teasers by Herbert Wolverson.

It seems amazing but the last time we did a release of The Server Framework was in 2021.

I’ve finally done what I should have done several years ago and shut down the LockExplorer site.

One of my clients has been reporting an intermittent issue with the deployment of new releases of their game server.

I’m currently reading Rust Atomics and Locks by Mara Bos and it’s excellent.

I have just completed migrating the blog from Movable Type to Hugo.

Previously published This article was previously published on lhexapod.com as part of my journey of discovery into robotics and embedded assembly programming.

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It felt like things almost got back to normal in 2022, which was good.

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I’ve had a client ask if it’s possible to rename his server log file whilst the server is running but not allow deletion.

As of the latest Chrome, Edge, Opera, and FireFox updates all of my ‘obsolete’ hardware (routers, NAS drives, network switches, etc) are inaccessible as they don’t use TLS 1.2.

2021 was another “interesting” year.

Back in 2009 I mused on the idea of ‘breakpoint sequences’, where a breakpoint was only hit if a series of previous breakpoints have been hit.

We’ve just found out that an email misconfiguration means that some emails to serverframework.com email addresses have been bouncing.

As you’ll see, we released 3 new versions of The Server Framework today.

Version 7.4 of The Server Framework was released today.

Version 7.3 of The Server Framework was released today.

Version 7.2 of The Server Framework was released today.

As I mentioned in May last year, I’d was having trouble with a client’s system where a UDP DDOS was causing Windows Server machines to use all available non-paged pool and then blue screen.

Version 7.1 of The Server Framework was released today.

Back in October 2019 I pointed out that I didn’t normally do roadmaps of where the framework was going but did one anyway.

Version 7.0 of The Server Framework was released today.

Version 6.9.5 of The Server Framework was released today.

2020 was probably a challenging year for everyone.

UPDATED: 23 August 2021 see here As I mentioned a while ago, it seems there’s a strangely fatal bug in the Windows networking stack at present.

UPDATED: 23 August 2021 see here One of my clients runs game servers on the cloud.

Previously on “Practical Testing”… The last time I updated the code was in 2016, things have changed quite a lot since then with several new compilers and several compilers that I no longer support.

Version 6.9.4 of The Server Framework was released today.

Wow.

Version 6.9.3 of The Server Framework was released today.

I’m in the process of putting together a series of releases for The Server Framework.

Version 6.9.2 of The Server Framework was released today.

The Linux port of The Server Framework is going really well and we now have investigated both libuv and epoll back ends.

We’re going to be really busy for the rest of the year as we’ve just won a large contract with our Industrial Control Client in Germany.

We’re currently working on a proof of concept Linux port of one of our more complex server systems for a client.