{"id":34273,"date":"2005-09-08T10:00:24","date_gmt":"2005-09-08T10:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2005\/09\/08\/i-wont-be-signing-books-but-dont-let-that-stop-you\/"},"modified":"2005-09-08T10:00:24","modified_gmt":"2005-09-08T10:00:24","slug":"i-wont-be-signing-books-but-dont-let-that-stop-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20050908-24\/?p=34273","title":{"rendered":"I won&#8217;t be signing books but don&#8217;t let that stop you"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Whereas <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/ericlippert\/archive\/2005\/09\/07\/461962.aspx\"> Eric Carter will be signing<\/a> his <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/ericlippert\/archive\/2005\/06\/06\/425847.aspx\"> book (co-authored with another Eric)<\/a> at the PDC. <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/oldnewthing\/archive\/2003\/10\/08\/55204.aspx\"> I have no book of my own to sign<\/a>, but will be happy to sign the Erics&#8217; book if you ask me to! <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/oldnewthing\/archive\/2005\/08\/17\/452631.aspx\"> You can catch me in the Fundamentals Lounge<\/a> pretty much the whole time. <\/p>\n<p> There have been some changes to my talk since I wrote about it last time. The lecture style is gone; the material simply didn&#8217;t support it. It&#8217;s just going to be a conventional talk against a series of slides. I sort of painted myself into a corner with my title, <a href=\"http:\/\/commnet.microsoftpdc.com\/content\/SessionView.aspx?SessionID=8acd4162-adb9-4a37-98db-720e7b6e3a48\"> Five Things Every Win32 Developer Should Know<\/a>: If you should know it, then it can&#8217;t be all that advanced can it? As a result, my talk is really more of a high 200&#8217;s\/low 300&#8217;s type of talk. But maybe just collecting all these factoids in one place makes it worthy of a 400 rating? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whereas Eric Carter will be signing his book (co-authored with another Eric) at the PDC. I have no book of my own to sign, but will be happy to sign the Erics&#8217; book if you ask me to! You can catch me in the Fundamentals Lounge pretty much the whole time. There have been some [&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-34273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-other"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Whereas Eric Carter will be signing his book (co-authored with another Eric) at the PDC. I have no book of my own to sign, but will be happy to sign the Erics&#8217; book if you ask me to! You can catch me in the Fundamentals Lounge pretty much the whole time. There have been some [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34273","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=34273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34273\/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=34273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}