Oct 5, 2021 6 0 Not from inside the Redmond Reality Distortion Field: Microsoft Streets and Trips support for ferries Raymond Chen From somebody else's reality distortion field.
Aug 24, 2021 8 0 How to sneak the Windows 95 credits screen into the build without anybody noticing Raymond Chen Write it in an obscure language.
Aug 18, 2021 4 0 What’s with all of the references to “dude” in the accessibility header files? Raymond Chen A catch phrase from long ago.
Aug 10, 2021 1 0 Why did the old RAID database use a signed 16-bit integer for its record count? Why not unsigned, or a 32-bit integer? Raymond Chen You have to understand decisions in context, and that includes knowing the problem it was trying to solve.
Jul 27, 2021 7 0 Twitter misdetected the 2011 Build conference keynote as a denial-of-service attack Raymond Chen Just a lot of excited developers.
Jul 23, 2021 0 0 The history of passing a null pointer as the key name to RegOpenKeyEx Raymond Chen It doesn't mean anything special any more, but it once did.
Jul 13, 2021 3 1 How did copying and renaming with wildcards work in MS-DOS? Raymond Chen By lining up two parallel arrays.
Jun 25, 2021 1 0 The ARM processor (Thumb-2), part 20: Code walkthrough Raymond Chen Putting together what we've learned, with a surprise.
Jun 24, 2021 1 0 The ARM processor (Thumb-2), part 19: Common patterns Raymond Chen Code sequences you will learn to recognize.
Jun 23, 2021 1 0 The ARM processor (Thumb-2), part 18: Other kinds of prologues and epilogues Raymond Chen Taking shortcuts and combining steps, or omitting them entirely.