June 30, 2014Jun 30, 201406/30/14Another round of the semi-annual link clearance.
Academic researchers summarizes their thesis in one snarky sentence on lol my thesis. Mine would be “Tesselation in 3D is much harder than 2D, and you can’t even show the results on a flat piece of paper,
June 30, 2014Jun 30, 201406/30/14Today’s Little Program locates the × button in the corner
of the window and
displays a balloon tip pointing at it.
We did this
some time ago
with the help of the
WM_GETTITLEBARINFOEX message,
which is new for Windows Vista.
But what if you don’t have that message available,
June 27, 2014Jun 27, 201406/27/14The C and C++ languages are notorious for the very large section
of the map labeled
here be dragons,
or
more formally,
undefined behavior.
When undefined behavior is invoked, anything is possible.
For example,
a variable can be both true and false.
June 26, 2014Jun 26, 201406/26/14Hacker News member citizenlow recalls the time I went over after hours to help out the Money team debug a nasty kernel issue. They were running into mysterious crashes during their stress testing and asked for my help in debugging it.
June 25, 2014Jun 25, 201406/25/14Today is another example where the right thing to do is not to answer the customer’s question but rather to solve the customer’s problem.
A customer liaison asked, “What do the registry keys X and Y do? We noticed that they are both read from and written to when you open a common file dialog.
June 24, 2014Jun 24, 201406/24/14Each preschooler at my daughter’s school was asked a few simple questions, and the answers were printed in the yearbook. Among other things, the preschoolers were asked to complete the sentence, “I like to play with (person).”
This is the type of question that leads to tears and hurt feelings.
June 24, 2014Jun 24, 201406/24/14Back in the old days, the “Run as administrator” menu option was placed on the extended menu. To get the extended menu, you hold the shift key when you right-click on the shortcut.
In Windows 7, the “Run as administrator” option was moved to the primary menu,
June 23, 2014Jun 23, 201406/23/14Today’s Little Program plays a sound when the
Alt+Tab window appears and disappears.
#define STRICT
#include <windows.h>
#include <mmsystem.h>
HWND g_hwndAltTab = nullptr;
void CALLBACK WinEventProc(
HWINEVENTHOOK hWinEventHook,
DWORD event,
HWND hwnd,
LONG idObject,
LONG idChild,
DWORD dwEventThread,
DWORD dwmsEventTime
)
{
PCTSTR pszSound = nullptr;
June 20, 2014Jun 20, 201406/20/14Feel free to stop using DDE.
There was one customer who confessed that they were still using DDE, and they asked for help debugging a DDE problem. They found that sometimes, when their application was launched for DDE, it never received the WM_DDE_INITIATE message.
June 19, 2014Jun 19, 201406/19/14The great thing about open comments is that anybody can use them to introduce their favorite gripe as long as it shares at least four letters of the alphabet in common with the putative topic of the base article.
xpclient “asks”
