The Old New Thing

September 30, 2005 - The Old New Thing

The reverse-engineering of PDC 2005 pass colors

September 30, 2005 Sep 30, 2005 09/30/05
Raymond Chen
Last night, the MVP Global Summit broke up by product groups for dinner. I was at the Windows Client product group dinner. The problem for me was figuring out who were the MVPs and who were just Microsoft employees looking for MVPs to chat with. Unfortunately, the people who made up the badges didn't think of making it easy to tell who is who...

English Cut: Bringing bespoke tailoring into the general consciousness

September 30, 2005 Sep 30, 2005 09/30/05
Raymond Chen
Thomas Mahon's English Cut is a glimpse into the world of bespoke tailoring, a world I was completely unaware of prior to his web site. I was particularly fascinated by his description of how to recognise the work of Anderson & Sheppard by inspecting the pockets. It is this attention to detail that really makes the difference between ...

But I have Visual Basic Professional

September 30, 2005 Sep 30, 2005 09/30/05
Raymond Chen
Back in 1995, I was participating in a chat room on MSN on the subject of device driver development. One of the people in the chat room asked, "Can I write a device driver in Visual Basic?" I replied, "Windows 95 device drivers are typically written in low-level languages such as C or even assembly language." Undaunted, the person ...