June 29, 2007Jun 29, 200706/29/07If you make a single-instance program,
and somebody runs a second copy of the program and passes a command line,
the most common way
of handling this is to hand the command line to the first
copy of the program and let the first copy deal with it.
June 29, 2007Jun 29, 200706/29/07Random stuff.
June 28, 2007Jun 28, 200706/28/07I was filling out an online form, and it gave me the option of providing feedback on the service I had received. The button was marked “optional”, but I clicked it anyway because there were one or two things I thought were worthy of mentioning,
June 27, 2007Jun 27, 200706/27/07A few weeks ago, I got a piece of email from a friend.
Maintenance crew in cockpit. They just told the pilot that the airplane “double faulted.”
June 27, 2007Jun 27, 200706/27/07A customer wanted to alter the behavior of a multi-line edit control
so that it did not treat a press of the Tab key as a request to insert
a tab character but rather treated it as a normal dialog navigation key.
June 26, 2007Jun 26, 200706/26/07Brain Hayes, author of Infrastructure: A Field Guide to the Industrial Landscape (another example of the “short: long” book title fad), talks us through all of the wires hanging from what we commonly call a “telephone pole”.
June 26, 2007Jun 26, 200706/26/07From a purely theoretical point of view, there is only one “want” code
you really need: DLGC_WANTMESSAGE.
All the others are just conveniences.
For example,
returning DLGC_WANTARROWS means
“I want this message if it is an arrow key; otherwise, I don’t care.”
June 25, 2007Jun 25, 200706/25/07Columnist Wm. Steven Humphrey expounds on Why the Fantastic 4 Human Torch ATV (with Light-Up Headlights!) is the Worst Movie Tie-In Toy Ever. (Readers cautioned for strong language, but it’s funny because it’s true.)
June 25, 2007Jun 25, 200706/25/07IsBadXxxPtr is a bad idea and you shouldn’t call it.
In the comments, many people proposed changes to the function to
improve the implementation.
But what’s the point?
IsBadXxxPtr is just a bad idea.
There’s no point improving the implementation of a bad idea.
June 22, 2007Jun 22, 200706/22/07Perhaps you’ve seen this quote attributed to Albert Einstein:
As a young man, my fondest dream was to become a geographer. However, while working in the Customs Office, I thought deeply about the matter and concluded that it was far too difficult a subject.
