{"id":4803,"date":"2013-03-29T07:00:01","date_gmt":"2013-03-29T07:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2013\/03\/29\/2013-q1-link-clearance-microsoft-blogger-edition\/"},"modified":"2013-03-29T07:00:01","modified_gmt":"2013-03-29T07:00:01","slug":"2013-q1-link-clearance-microsoft-blogger-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20130329-01\/?p=4803","title":{"rendered":"2013 Q1 link clearance: Microsoft blogger edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> It&#8217;s that time again: Linking to other Microsoft bloggers. <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>     <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/b\/cjacks\/archive\/2006\/07\/10\/661089.aspx\">     How much personalization is the right amount?<\/a> <\/li>\n<li>     <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/b\/audiofool\/archive\/2006\/08\/22\/713498.aspx\">     A lesson in dynamic range<\/a>. <\/li>\n<li>     <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/b\/twistylittlepassagesallalike\/archive\/2011\/04\/23\/everyone-quotes-arguments-the-wrong-way.aspx\">     Everyone quotes command line arguments the wrong way<\/a>,     a companion to     <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/b\/oldnewthing\/archive\/2010\/09\/17\/10063629.aspx\">     What&#8217;s up with the strange treatment of quotation marks and backslashes by CommandLineToArgvW<\/a>. <\/li>\n<li>     <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/nadyne\/archive\/2006\/08\/29\/730630.aspx\">     The Microsoft fallacy<\/a>.     Nadyne&#8217;s third fallacy is something I see when other companies who     are interested in employee blogging ask,     &#8220;How does Microsoft&#8217;s PR department manage 5000 bloggers     all of whom will say exactly what you tell them to say?&#8221;     It makes the underlying assumption that bloggers are     <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft-watch.com\/content\/corporate\/how_microsoft_blogging_pr_works.html\">     working closely with the PR department<\/a>,     when in fact I bet most bloggers can&#8217;t     even name a single person in the PR department beyond maybe     Frank X. Shaw. <\/li>\n<li>     <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/b\/adam_nathan\/archive\/2006\/12\/04\/thoughts-from-the-author-of-cards-dll.aspx\">     Thoughts from the author of cards.dll<\/a>.     <b>Bonus<\/b>:     <a href=\"http:\/\/www.evan-roth.com\/work\/solitaire-exe\/\">     A deck of playing cards based on the images in cards.dll<\/a>.     (Warning: Web page title and white-on-white text NSFW     <a href=\"http:\/\/www.evan-roth.com\/about\/\">by design<\/a>.) <\/li>\n<li>     <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/mglehman\/archive\/2007\/02\/11\/the-next-big-language-or-how-writing-a-compiler-makes-you-a-better-programmer.aspx\">     On how writing a compiler makes you a better programmer<\/a>.     I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ve ever written a compiler,     but I&#8217;ve written a good number of interpreters.     I guess that makes me a marginally better programmer. <\/li>\n<li>More information about notification icons,     notification GUIDs,     and how a digital signature     <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/b\/asklar\/archive\/2012\/03\/06\/system-tray-notification-area-icons.aspx\">     lets your app take its     notification icon to a new location<\/a>. <\/li>\n<li>     <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/b\/calvin_hsia\/\">     Calvin Hsia<\/a>     was Microsoft&#8217;s first Most Valuable Professional (MVP).     MVP originally stood for     <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/news\/features\/2013\/feb13\/02-21MVP.aspx\">     Most Verbose People<\/a>, since they were the people who     were most active on the message boards. <\/li>\n<li>     <a href=\"https:\/\/channel9.msdn.com\/Shows\/The-Defrag-Show\">     The Defrag Show<\/a>     is Channel 9&#8217;s tech support and troubleshooting show.     Co-host Gov Maharaj is described in the blurb as     &#8220;tech troubleshooter extraordinaire&#8221;.     It sounds like an exaggeration, but it&#8217;s not.     This show is not to be confused with the similarly-named&#8230; <\/li>\n<li>     <a href=\"https:\/\/channel9.msdn.com\/Shows\/Defrag-Tools\">     Defrag Tools<\/a>.     This is the show about serious hard-core debugging.     (I&#8217;m plugging my friends here, because Gov, Andrew, and I     are frequent contributors to the &#8220;Hard-Core Debugging&#8221; sessions     at Microsoft&#8217;s internal technical conference known as     <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/TechReady\">TechReady<\/a>.     <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/b\/oldnewthing\/archive\/2010\/12\/01\/10099005.aspx\">     My TechEd China 2010<\/a> presentation was basically a tweaked version     of one of my &#8220;Hard-Core Debugging&#8221; talks.     Though given the stunned silence from the audience during my     presentation, I figure that either I was phenomenally boring     or that the information was too advanced. Or both.) <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s that time again: Linking to other Microsoft bloggers. How much personalization is the right amount? A lesson in dynamic range. 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