Joe Beda stopped by my office, clutching a stack of documents he had just had notarized, and told me, "Raymond, you should become a notary public." "Why?" "It'd be fun." "Notarizing documents is fun?" "No, just being a notary public - just ...

Answers to exercises from Scrollbars Part 10.

Whimsical bug reports, while not a common occurence, aren't exactly unheard of either. They are a popular way to vent a shared frustration and lighten the mood. Recently, we changed milk suppliers for our cafeterias. Well, more accurately, our previous milk supplier was bought by another milk company...

The original taskbar didn't look at all like what you see today. It defaulted to the top of the screen.

When your window is resized, Windows uses the message to determine where your window's client area lives inside your window rectangle. There are two forms of the message. The simple form merely takes a window rectangle and returns a client rectangle. This is useful for resizing a window to ...

Yes, I'm the Raymond that Kraig Brockschmidt is writing about when he discusses "Dress Like Raymond Day...

UK survey reveals that one in seven computer users needs help turning the computer on and off...

Short answer: Because they're wrong. Long answer: The official name for the thingie at the bottom of the screen is the "taskbar". The taskbar contains a variety of elements, such as the "Start Button", a collection of "taskbar buttons", the clock, and the "Taskbar Notification Area". One of the most common errors is to refer to the Taskbar ...

Bubba Ho-Tep will be playing at the Varsity Theater in Seattle for a limited run. (Check the release schedule to see if it will be airing in your area.) Be there. Or the mummy will have already won...

When a document is displayed with scrollbars, the metaphor is that the window is a viewport onto the entire document, only a portion of which is visible at the moment. The default behavior of a resize, however, is to maintain the origin at the upper left corner of the client area, which breaks the metaphor when...