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If you have a minimized window and want to know where it will go when you restore it, the GetWindowPlacement function will tell you. In particular, the tells you where the window would go if it were restored (as opposed to minimized or maximized). One perhaps-non-obvious flag is WPF_RESTORETOMAXIMIZED. This flag indicates that the window...

If you find yourself in a meeting with a mix of managers and programmers, here's one way to tell the difference between them: Look at what they brough to the meeting. Did they bring a laptop computer? Score bonus points if the laptop computer is actually turned on during the meeting or if the laptop is special in some way (e.g., it has a w...

Putting together some skills you've already learned.

For those in the Seattle area who missed it last year, The Fremont Outdoor Cinema is screening Bubba Ho-Tep on Friday, July 9th. Go see it. You won't be disappointed. Assuming what you were expecting to see was Elvis fighting a mummy. With the help of JFK. In a wheelchair. If you were expecting something else, then okay maybe you'll be...

There isn't any difference any more.

There isn't any difference any more.

Reaching back into the history bucket... Some people have discovered that strange things happen if you name your DLL "security.dll". The reason is that there is already a system DLL called "security.dll"; it's the Security Support Provider Interface DLL, and it used to go by the name "security.dll", though nowadays the name "secur32.d...

Reaching back into the history bucket... Some people have discovered that strange things happen if you name your DLL "security.dll". The reason is that there is already a system DLL called "security.dll"; it's the Security Support Provider Interface DLL, and it used to go by the name "security.dll", though nowadays the name "secur32.d...

The air must be thinner the higher up the management chain you go, or maybe it just gives you more opportunities to look stupid. Like this message: From: <some upper manager> Subject: <some subject> I will try to keep this relatively brief as I know how busy everyone is. <... 4-page message follows...> If this i...

Some people wondered about my fascination with Germanic languages and asked why I didn't branch out to other language families. It's basically laziness. I grew up speaking English (and a little of the Holo dialect, most of which has by now vanished from disuse), then studied German in high school and college, and most recently added Swed...