Rants of a Hippie Coder

Actually in this case it'd be one of those weekends. I was working this weekend (at home fortunately) on getting some changes in for an upcoming product release and I just hit roadblock after roadblock. I have a name for my pain - it is GAUNTLET! Not...

At one point folks got carried away with drag and drop. For example: The system menu icon is a drag source in IE and Explorer windows. So you can use it to drag a shortcut to the current page/folder/document to anywhere you want. The icon in the address...

C++ magic in particular. What's wrong with this code? #define BLANK_IF_NULL(_s_) ((_s_) ? (_s_) : (TEXT(""))) We had a macro like this in MSN Explorer that would ensure you didn't pass a NULL string around. Well there's lots of things wrong with the code...

Howdy. I figure my first entry just ought to give you some of my background (IOW, the reasons to not take me too seriously). I've been at Microsoft almost 8 years. I started off working on the IE team. I worked on CDF channels, offline web pages, the...