A difference between cricket and baseball that most people don’t mention
July 8, 2019Jul 8, 201907/8/19The pitch invasion.
July 8, 2019Jul 8, 201907/8/19July 8, 2019Jul 8, 201907/8/19Detecting in C++ whether a type is defined, part 1: The initial plunge
July 8, 2019Jul 8, 201907/8/19Let's play games with unqualified name lookup.
I set the OFN_NONETWORKBUTTON option in the OPENFILENAME structure, but it has no effect on the network item in the navigation pane
July 5, 2019Jul 5, 201907/5/19But hey, at least it's not a button.
Baseball: The rules for the casual viewer
July 4, 2019Jul 4, 201907/4/19The minimum you need to know.
Generating good error messages from code analysis tools is harder than it looks
July 4, 2019Jul 4, 201907/4/19Describing the problem accurately, with enough diagnostics to chase the problem
Why does my attempt to index a collection with the x:Bind markup extension keep telling me I have an invalid binding path due to an unexpected array indexer?
July 3, 2019Jul 3, 201907/3/19Important detail stated by omission.
Cricket: The rules for the casual viewer
July 2, 2019Jul 2, 201907/2/19The minimum you need to know.
Microspeak: Ingestion
July 2, 2019Jul 2, 201907/2/19Let's hope it goes down easily.
A program to detect mojibake that results from a UTF-8-encoded file being misinterpreted as code page 1252
July 1, 2019Jul 1, 201907/1/19Because it happens.
2019 mid-year link clearance
June 28, 2019Jun 28, 201906/28/19Another checkpoint reached.
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Apollo 11 in real time: Follow the lunar landing mission as it happened
July 17, 2019Jul 17, 201907/17/19A fifty-year-old replay.
Windows NT services are assigned a SID based on an SHA-1 hash, but what about the risk of collision?
July 17, 2019Jul 17, 201907/17/19Those collisions are going to be hard to manufacture.
That time Dana Carvey went off script at the Microsoft Company Meeting
July 16, 2019Jul 16, 201907/16/19Timing is important in investing as well as comedy.
Cricket: The practical exam for 2019
July 15, 2019Jul 15, 201907/15/19How much did you understand the rules?
My initial confusion when encountering functions whose names begin with Co
July 15, 2019Jul 15, 201907/15/19We aren't in the math department any more.
Detecting in C++ whether a type is defined, part 5: Augmenting the basic pattern
July 12, 2019Jul 12, 201907/12/19Making things more convenient for specific scenarios.
Pesäpallo: The rules for the casual viewer
July 11, 2019Jul 11, 201907/11/19I wonder how much of this I got right.
Detecting in C++ whether a type is defined, part 4: Predeclaring things you want to probe
July 11, 2019Jul 11, 201907/11/19Declaring the thing whose definition you are looking for.
Detecting in C++ whether a type is defined, part 3: SFINAE and incomplete types
July 10, 2019Jul 10, 201907/10/19You can give something a name without saying what it is.
Detecting in C++ whether a type is defined, part 2: Giving it a special name
July 9, 2019Jul 9, 201907/9/19Maybe it's the real thing, makybe it's a fake.