Raymond Chen

Raymond has been involved in the evolution of Windows for more than 30 years. In 2003, he began a Web site known as The Old New Thing which has grown in popularity far beyond his wildest imagination, a development which still gives him the heebie-jeebies. The Web site spawned a book, coincidentally also titled The Old New Thing (Addison Wesley 2007). He occasionally appears on the Windows Dev Docs Twitter account to tell stories which convey no useful information.

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On writing loops in continuation-passing style, part 4

August 25th, 2023
Equivalents in C# and JavaScript.

On writing loops in PPL and continuation-passing style, part 3

August 24th, 2023
Explicit shared state.
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On writing loops in PPL and continuation-passing style, part 2

August 23rd, 2023
Recursion comes back.
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On writing loops in PPL and continuation-passing style, part 1

August 22nd, 2023
Keeping track of what to do next.
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Inside STL: The different types of shared pointer control blocks

August 21st, 2023
Well, some of them, at least.

Phantom and indulgent shared pointers

August 18th, 2023
The phantom controls something yet holds nothing. The indulgent holds something but controls nothing.

What it means when you convert between different shared_ptrs

August 17th, 2023
Changing the pointer while controlling the same object.

Inside STL: The shared_ptr constructor and enable_shared_from_this

August 16th, 2023
Working together through a secret signal.

Inside STL: The shared_ptr constructor vs make_shared

August 15th, 2023
Where to hide the control block.

Inside STL: Smart pointers

August 14th, 2023
Simple pointers or more complicated pointers.