The Old New Thing

Drink at work: The blog of a cartoonist

Francesco ("Ces") Marciuliano is the author of the comic strip Sally Forth. In his blog, Drink at Work he expounds on whatever tickles his fancy. (Warning: Includes strong language, adult situations, and political views.) Sure, the stories on writing a cartoon are fun, especially when he responds to feedback from readers, and he also has ...

Why do Microsoft code samples tend to use ZeroMemory instead of { 0 }?

If you go browsing around MSDN, you'll find that code samples tend to call explicitly rather than using "" notation. Why is that? To make it clearer for people who are used to other programming languages. Like it or not, a significant percentage of people who write programs for Windows do it in languages other than C and C++. Although ...