Comment Feed for Channel 9 - Checking In: Gov Maharaj - Shimming the World, Dreaming in Assembly http://ak.channel9.msdn.com/ch9/2a39/3005a907-7eaa-4b4e-a144-9f1a00102a39/CheckingInGovMaharaj_100_ch9.jpg Channel 9 - Checking In: Gov Maharaj - Shimming the World, Dreaming in Assembly Gov Maharaj is a developer on the Windows Compatibility team. You know Gov from the popular C9 show, Defrag. He spends most of his time solving problems reported by customers over the phone, in email, or via automated telemetry data. Gov is one of those people who makes work-a-holics feel as though they aren't working hard enough. Gov works ALL the time. He's one of the most prolific posters on a few of our internal Windows-specific email discussion lists, helping folks with coding issues or troubleshooting hard-to-figure-out Windows errors reported by customers. From a code perspective, Gov spends most of his time reading and writing assembly, but he does dabble in the higher level stuff like C and C++. Gov's team is in the business of writing effective compatibility shims for Windows code, ensuring code will run as expected (if possible) across versions of the OS. You'll learn a lot about this art in this conversation. This is a great episode of Checking In with Erik Meijer -> Classic Channel 9! Thank you, Erik and Gov, for an excellent conversation. Tune in. en Sun, 26 May 2013 06:16:11 GMT Sun, 26 May 2013 06:16:11 GMT Rev9 Re: Checking In: Gov Maharaj - Shimming the World, Dreaming in Assembly posted by WhyBeTea

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Checking-In-with-Erik-Meijer/Checking-In-Gov-Maharaj-Shimming-the-World-Dreaming-in-Assembly#c634462703450000000 Thu, 14 Jul 2011 19:59:05 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Checking-In-with-Erik-Meijer/Checking-In-Gov-Maharaj-Shimming-the-World-Dreaming-in-Assembly#c634462703450000000 WhyBeTea Re: Checking In: Gov Maharaj - Shimming the World, Dreaming in Assembly love it Smiley

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]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Checking-In-with-Erik-Meijer/Checking-In-Gov-Maharaj-Shimming-the-World-Dreaming-in-Assembly#c634462707470000000 Thu, 14 Jul 2011 20:05:47 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Checking-In-with-Erik-Meijer/Checking-In-Gov-Maharaj-Shimming-the-World-Dreaming-in-Assembly#c634462707470000000 Maddus Mattus Re: Checking In: Gov Maharaj - Shimming the World, Dreaming in Assembly Or Purple

posted by vesuvius

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Checking-In-with-Erik-Meijer/Checking-In-Gov-Maharaj-Shimming-the-World-Dreaming-in-Assembly#c634462710940000000 Thu, 14 Jul 2011 20:11:34 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Checking-In-with-Erik-Meijer/Checking-In-Gov-Maharaj-Shimming-the-World-Dreaming-in-Assembly#c634462710940000000 vesuvius Re: Checking In: Gov Maharaj - Shimming the World, Dreaming in Assembly nice video and interesting facts about Gov and his office Smiley

posted by MagicAndre1981

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Checking-In-with-Erik-Meijer/Checking-In-Gov-Maharaj-Shimming-the-World-Dreaming-in-Assembly#c634462793900000000 Thu, 14 Jul 2011 22:29:50 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Checking-In-with-Erik-Meijer/Checking-In-Gov-Maharaj-Shimming-the-World-Dreaming-in-Assembly#c634462793900000000 MagicAndre1981 Re: Checking In: Gov Maharaj - Shimming the World, Dreaming in Assembly I hate MAX_PATH!  Mad It's interesting to hear why we're stuck with it ... for now.  I was burned by it, yet again this week.  This time creating packages for Azure.  The depths of dll hell have been sealed and yet the software suffers; the highest abstraction to the lowest isomorphism of the machine; from this concrete, even axiomatic constant.  Not loved like the constants which man has treasure dug from the hard stone wall of nature.  Nor loved like the axioms and theorems squeezed through furious pen and furrowed brow of genius.  Loathed by all, it was unnaturally conceived by the falsehood and hubris of "that'll be enough room".  Wink

posted by Richard.Hein

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Checking-In-with-Erik-Meijer/Checking-In-Gov-Maharaj-Shimming-the-World-Dreaming-in-Assembly#c634462921910000000 Fri, 15 Jul 2011 02:03:11 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Checking-In-with-Erik-Meijer/Checking-In-Gov-Maharaj-Shimming-the-World-Dreaming-in-Assembly#c634462921910000000 Richard.Hein Re: Checking In: Gov Maharaj - Shimming the World, Dreaming in Assembly I'm so glad to see Erik again Smiley

posted by AceHack

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Checking-In-with-Erik-Meijer/Checking-In-Gov-Maharaj-Shimming-the-World-Dreaming-in-Assembly#c634462968650000000 Fri, 15 Jul 2011 03:21:05 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Checking-In-with-Erik-Meijer/Checking-In-Gov-Maharaj-Shimming-the-World-Dreaming-in-Assembly#c634462968650000000 AceHack Re: Checking In: Gov Maharaj - Shimming the World, Dreaming in Assembly @Richard.Hein: Just create your projects under c:\azure\ Wink

posted by Maddus Mattus

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Checking-In-with-Erik-Meijer/Checking-In-Gov-Maharaj-Shimming-the-World-Dreaming-in-Assembly#c634463067760000000 Fri, 15 Jul 2011 06:06:16 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Checking-In-with-Erik-Meijer/Checking-In-Gov-Maharaj-Shimming-the-World-Dreaming-in-Assembly#c634463067760000000 Maddus Mattus Re: Checking In: Gov Maharaj - Shimming the World, Dreaming in Assembly I heard the 'rhymes with orange' story from Raymond Chen before

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2008/10/21/9008384.aspx

posted by felix9

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Checking-In-with-Erik-Meijer/Checking-In-Gov-Maharaj-Shimming-the-World-Dreaming-in-Assembly#c634463068710000000 Fri, 15 Jul 2011 06:07:51 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Checking-In-with-Erik-Meijer/Checking-In-Gov-Maharaj-Shimming-the-World-Dreaming-in-Assembly#c634463068710000000 felix9 Re: Checking In: Gov Maharaj - Shimming the World, Dreaming in Assembly Hmm.... is there an 'user tile' in the task bar ? Devil

posted by felix9

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Checking-In-with-Erik-Meijer/Checking-In-Gov-Maharaj-Shimming-the-World-Dreaming-in-Assembly#c634463075890000000 Fri, 15 Jul 2011 06:19:49 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Checking-In-with-Erik-Meijer/Checking-In-Gov-Maharaj-Shimming-the-World-Dreaming-in-Assembly#c634463075890000000 felix9 Re: Checking In: Gov Maharaj - Shimming the World, Dreaming in Assembly @felix9: Actually something does rhyme with Orange, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blorenge

I was wrong about Purple as that rhymes with the everyday word curple.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_words_without_rhymes

 

posted by vesuvius

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Checking-In-with-Erik-Meijer/Checking-In-Gov-Maharaj-Shimming-the-World-Dreaming-in-Assembly#c634463139750000000 Fri, 15 Jul 2011 08:06:15 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Checking-In-with-Erik-Meijer/Checking-In-Gov-Maharaj-Shimming-the-World-Dreaming-in-Assembly#c634463139750000000 vesuvius Re: Checking In: Gov Maharaj - Shimming the World, Dreaming in Assembly @Maddus Mattus:  If only it were that simple, but since I cannot control the source control mappings other developers make, and since we package up contents of a branch into a cspkg from a folder tree containing close to the MAX_PATH, and since cspkg puts everything into an even deeper folder tree, I haven't found any other solution than to compress folders before packaging.

posted by Richard.Hein

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Checking-In-with-Erik-Meijer/Checking-In-Gov-Maharaj-Shimming-the-World-Dreaming-in-Assembly#c634463291920000000 Fri, 15 Jul 2011 12:19:52 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Checking-In-with-Erik-Meijer/Checking-In-Gov-Maharaj-Shimming-the-World-Dreaming-in-Assembly#c634463291920000000 Richard.Hein Re: Checking In: Gov Maharaj - Shimming the World, Dreaming in Assembly Where in Canada is Gov from?

posted by pnewhook

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Checking-In-with-Erik-Meijer/Checking-In-Gov-Maharaj-Shimming-the-World-Dreaming-in-Assembly#c634463383770000000 Fri, 15 Jul 2011 14:52:57 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Checking-In-with-Erik-Meijer/Checking-In-Gov-Maharaj-Shimming-the-World-Dreaming-in-Assembly#c634463383770000000 pnewhook Re: Checking In: Gov Maharaj - Shimming the World, Dreaming in Assembly @felix9:No.

posted by Charles

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Checking-In-with-Erik-Meijer/Checking-In-Gov-Maharaj-Shimming-the-World-Dreaming-in-Assembly#c634463412600000000 Fri, 15 Jul 2011 15:41:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Checking-In-with-Erik-Meijer/Checking-In-Gov-Maharaj-Shimming-the-World-Dreaming-in-Assembly#c634463412600000000 Charles Re: Checking In: Gov Maharaj - Shimming the World, Dreaming in Assembly @pnewhook:

I'm from Alberta... born and raised... proud to be Canadian!!! But I also love where I am now.

posted by RhymesWithOrange

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Checking-In-with-Erik-Meijer/Checking-In-Gov-Maharaj-Shimming-the-World-Dreaming-in-Assembly#c634463487290000000 Fri, 15 Jul 2011 17:45:29 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Checking-In-with-Erik-Meijer/Checking-In-Gov-Maharaj-Shimming-the-World-Dreaming-in-Assembly#c634463487290000000 RhymesWithOrange Re: Checking In: Gov Maharaj - Shimming the World, Dreaming in Assembly haha ... I could tell before he even said uttered it that he would say MAX_PATH. ugh.

posted by contextfree`

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Checking-In-with-Erik-Meijer/Checking-In-Gov-Maharaj-Shimming-the-World-Dreaming-in-Assembly#c634463937760000000 Sat, 16 Jul 2011 06:16:16 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Checking-In-with-Erik-Meijer/Checking-In-Gov-Maharaj-Shimming-the-World-Dreaming-in-Assembly#c634463937760000000 contextfree` Re: Checking In: Gov Maharaj - Shimming the World, Dreaming in Assembly I couldn't help but think about this tech talk when Erik asked Gov if he could sense where code came from:

Where Did This Code Come From? Discovering the Provenance of Program Binaries

posted by exoteric

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Checking-In-with-Erik-Meijer/Checking-In-Gov-Maharaj-Shimming-the-World-Dreaming-in-Assembly#c634464004090000000 Sat, 16 Jul 2011 08:06:49 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Checking-In-with-Erik-Meijer/Checking-In-Gov-Maharaj-Shimming-the-World-Dreaming-in-Assembly#c634464004090000000 exoteric Re: Checking In: Gov Maharaj - Shimming the World, Dreaming in Assembly btw the "rude mailing list participant who will not appear on channel 9 and who shall remain nameless" = Raymond Chen?

posted by contextfree`

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Checking-In-with-Erik-Meijer/Checking-In-Gov-Maharaj-Shimming-the-World-Dreaming-in-Assembly#c634464334720000000 Sat, 16 Jul 2011 17:17:52 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Checking-In-with-Erik-Meijer/Checking-In-Gov-Maharaj-Shimming-the-World-Dreaming-in-Assembly#c634464334720000000 contextfree` Re: Checking In: Gov Maharaj - Shimming the World, Dreaming in Assembly @contextfree`: http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/558144-What-do-you-want-to-know/792ee9d904bf40baa04c9dea00a89836

posted by felix9

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Checking-In-with-Erik-Meijer/Checking-In-Gov-Maharaj-Shimming-the-World-Dreaming-in-Assembly#c634464882770000000 Sun, 17 Jul 2011 08:31:17 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Checking-In-with-Erik-Meijer/Checking-In-Gov-Maharaj-Shimming-the-World-Dreaming-in-Assembly#c634464882770000000 felix9 Re: Checking In: Gov Maharaj - Shimming the World, Dreaming in Assembly I think with all that gear Gov has, he'd be a great subject for a "Show us your tech" video!!

posted by RT1138

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Checking-In-with-Erik-Meijer/Checking-In-Gov-Maharaj-Shimming-the-World-Dreaming-in-Assembly#c634466795640000000 Tue, 19 Jul 2011 13:39:24 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Checking-In-with-Erik-Meijer/Checking-In-Gov-Maharaj-Shimming-the-World-Dreaming-in-Assembly#c634466795640000000 RT1138 Re: Checking In: Gov Maharaj - Shimming the World, Dreaming in Assembly

,RT1138 wrote

I think with all that gear Gov has, he'd be a great subject for a "Show us your tech" video!!

You should see some of my setup at home... I custom built most of my solutions (home entertainment mostly) and because of my very young neice and nephews, I have had to keep it simple enough for them to use, and techy enough to do all the things I want to be able to do. Not an easy task. And I really try to keep it low power usage. Latest thing I got was the 6CC HDHomeRun Prime, which I love.

Also, all of my work related equipment you saw in my office.. the monitors, and my main dev machine... All mine. I built the dev box myself (3TB raid system, 16GB ram, 8 way) and the monitors (4X22") all mine.

posted by RhymesWithOrange

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Checking-In-with-Erik-Meijer/Checking-In-Gov-Maharaj-Shimming-the-World-Dreaming-in-Assembly#c634502334170000000 Mon, 29 Aug 2011 16:50:17 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Checking-In-with-Erik-Meijer/Checking-In-Gov-Maharaj-Shimming-the-World-Dreaming-in-Assembly#c634502334170000000 RhymesWithOrange Re: Checking In: Gov Maharaj - Shimming the World, Dreaming in Assembly Hey Gov,

I had Windows Media Player on Windows 7 question/issue for you. Your insight would be very useful. The problem's been bugging me for a week now. Is there an email I can reach you on?

Thanks in advance.

posted by TestPhreak

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Checking-In-with-Erik-Meijer/Checking-In-Gov-Maharaj-Shimming-the-World-Dreaming-in-Assembly#c634504962440000000 Thu, 01 Sep 2011 17:50:44 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Checking-In-with-Erik-Meijer/Checking-In-Gov-Maharaj-Shimming-the-World-Dreaming-in-Assembly#c634504962440000000 TestPhreak