The Old New Thing

August 7, 2014 - The Old New Thing

The latest technologies in plaintext editing: NotepadConf

August 7, 2014 Aug 7, 2014 08/7/14
Raymond Chen
On November 13, 2014 November 14, 2014, Saint Paul, Minnesota will be the home to NotepadConf, which bills itself as "the premier technology conference for Notepad.exe users and text enthusiasts." I'm still not sure whom Microsoft will send to the conference, but maybe that person could give a talk on how you can use Notepad to take down ...

Since clean-up functions can't fail, you have to soldier on

August 7, 2014 Aug 7, 2014 08/7/14
Raymond Chen
Clean-up functions can't fail, so what do you do if you encounter a failure in your clean-up function? You have to keep cleaning up. Some people like to follow this pattern for error checking: And some like to put it inside a cute flow control macro like or even Whatever floats your boat. But you have to be careful if using ...