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Screaming Death Monkey (besides having the coolest name for a company, EVER) is a full service post production facility specializing in visual effects for film, television, commercials and music videos.In my search to find out as much as I could about the artistry behind the movie 300 I…

I'm going to be honest with you guys- the Teleprompter is one of my  favorite inventions ever. Don't get me wrong, it's not always easy to make it appear as though you are not reading to the audience at home but once you've got it down it makes a world of difference. The problem has been that…

Download PPTX slide here: Part 1  You can't troubleshoot a problem effectively until you first know what the problem is. When applications encounter stability or performance issues in the production environment, obtaining an accurate problem definition is a key first-step to reducing Time To…

Download PPTX slide here: Part 2 Performance Monitor is oftentimes an overlooked tool when troubleshooting application issues.  But in the production environment, it can be invaluable to helping you determine just what kind of application issue you have.  Perfmon has a lot to offer,…

Download PPTX slide here: Part 3 Ever try to load SOS/psscor into your debugging session and get a "Failed to load data access dll" error?  It's not uncommon, especially when you first start debugging .NET applications.  Join us for a brief introduction to Windbg before we…

Download PPTX slide here: Part 4 "I got my first dump.  Now where do I begin?" I get this question a lot from customers and fellow Premier Field Engineers who are learning how to debug post-mortem dump files of problematic .NET applications.  In Part 4 of our series, we cover…

Download PPTX slide here: Part 5   If you've spent any time developing applications, it's likely you've encountered a high cpu hang at some point.  Troubleshooting this problem in the dev environment is one thing, but how do Premier Field Engineers troubleshoot this problem in a customer's…

Download PPTX slide here: Part 6 Some exceptions don't cause your application to crash.  Some do.  Either way, developers should work to rid their applications of exceptions for both stability and performance reasons.  Special guest Mario Hewardt joins us as we discuss how to detect…

In Part1 of this series, we discussed how most every application issue in production can be listed in one of three buckets: exceptions, non-responsiveness, and performance issues.  This last bucket includes memory pressure issues, which is by far the most common type of .NET application issue…

You may wish to watch the video using one of the high quality links on the right so the text is readable. This episode is the second of three which introduces viewers to the topic of troubleshooting memory pressure issues.  In the previous episode, we took a high level…