April 30, 2013Apr 30, 201304/30/13Many years ago, I visited the office of a colleague who worked on Internet Explorer in order to work on some problem or other. As we investigated the issue, we took notes on a 5″×7″ tear-off notepad which bore the logo Forms³.
April 29, 2013Apr 29, 201304/29/13I dreamed that I was living in a nursing home in some Brazil-like dystopic future.
In this future, people had become so horribly disfigured that they wore flesh-colored suits under their clothes all the time just so they would look good “naked”.
April 29, 2013Apr 29, 201304/29/13Today’s Little Program takes the symbolic name for
a shell property and returns a string
suitable for display to the end-user,
translated into the user’s specified display language.
#include <windows.h>
#include <ole2.h>
#include <propsys.h>
#include <propkey.h>
#include <atlbase.h>
#include <atlalloc.h>
int __cdecl wmain(int argc,
April 26, 2013Apr 26, 201304/26/13In 2010, a group of scam artists pretended that they were making a film, appropriately titled A Landscape of Lies. They did this so that they could claim over £2.7 million in tax credits intended to boost the British film industry.
April 26, 2013Apr 26, 201304/26/13Adam Rosenfield noted that
“those sure are a lot of hoops you have to jump through to solve
this unusual problem”
of specifying which handles are inherited by a new process.
Well, first of all,
what’s so wrong with that?
You have to jump through a lot of hoops when you are in an unusual
situation.
April 25, 2013Apr 25, 201304/25/13Is the
InterlockedIncrement function broken?
One person seemed to think so.
We’re finding that the
InterlockedIncrement is producing
duplicate values.
Are there are any know bugs in
InterlockedIncrement?
Because of course when something doesn’t work,
it’s because you are the victim of a vast conspiracy.
April 24, 2013Apr 24, 201304/24/13Here are some strange but legal declarations in C/C++:
int typedef a;
short unsigned typedef b;
By convention, the typedef keyword comes at the
beginning of the line, but this is not actually required by the
language.
The above declarations are equivalent to
typedef int a;
April 23, 2013Apr 23, 201304/23/13In standard English, a tenet is a fundamental belief held by a group of people. At Microsoft, the term tenet is used as a generalization of what we previously called taxes: Things that everybody has to do in order to be a good software citizen.
April 22, 2013Apr 22, 201304/22/13I dreamed that two of my colleagues were playing a game based on pantomiming Unicode code points. One of them got LOW QUOTATION MARK, and the other got a variety of ARROW POINTING NORTHEAST, ARROW POINTING EAST, ARROW POINTING SOUTHWEST.
I wonder how you would pantomime ZERO WIDTH NON-JOINER.
April 22, 2013Apr 22, 201304/22/13Today’s Little Program prints the current selection
in all open Explorer windows.
(This is an alternative to the
C++ version that involves a ridiculous amount of typing.)
var shellWindows = new ActiveXObject(“Shell.Application”).Windows();
for (var i = 0; i < shellWindows.Count; i++) {
var w = shellWindows.Item(i);
