{"id":20063,"date":"2008-11-27T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-27T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2008\/11\/27\/not-my-finest-hour-getting-instructions-on-doing-something-ive-already-done\/"},"modified":"2008-11-27T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-27T10:00:00","slug":"not-my-finest-hour-getting-instructions-on-doing-something-ive-already-done","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20081127-00\/?p=20063","title":{"rendered":"Not my finest hour: Getting instructions on doing something I&#8217;ve already done"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last year, I sent some email to the people who run our team&#8217;s check-in validation tool asking how I could add a new rule to the validation tests. One of the members wrote back, &#8220;You do it just like this guy,&#8221; and sent me a reference to another check-in that added a validation rule.<\/p>\n<p> That other check-in was made by me. <\/p>\n<p> But wait, it gets better. <\/p>\n<p> That other check-in? It added the very rule I was thinking about adding. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year, I sent some email to the people who run our team&#8217;s check-in validation tool asking how I could add a new rule to the validation tests. One of the members wrote back, &#8220;You do it just like this guy,&#8221; and sent me a reference to another check-in that added a validation rule. That [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-20063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-other"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Last year, I sent some email to the people who run our team&#8217;s check-in validation tool asking how I could add a new rule to the validation tests. One of the members wrote back, &#8220;You do it just like this guy,&#8221; and sent me a reference to another check-in that added a validation rule. That [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20063\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}