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July 2005 - Posts

Classic Clippy Story

This short story that Larry links to is a great reminder of the dangers of trying to create software that's *too* helpful. It's evocative of the way many C++ developers feel about the evolution of the IDE experience since Visual C++ 6.0. One customer Read More...
Posted Tuesday, July 26, 2005 11:27 AM by borisj | 4 Comments

Blogging from Meltdown

I'm presenting my Visual C++ productivity tips talk at the Windows Gaming conference, also known as Meltdown 2005 . As you can see from the picture, it's got quite the super hero theme going for it this year. For those that are curious, each of those Read More...
Posted Tuesday, July 26, 2005 10:10 AM by borisj | 0 Comments

Useful Code: Swap .h/.cpp

Over the past few weeks, for a number of reasons I have been working on a number of macros to extend the functionality of Visual C++. The first reason is that I have been giving preparing demos for various talks, such as Gamefest (which I mentioned earlier) Read More...
Posted Monday, July 25, 2005 1:18 PM by borisj | 21 Comments

Sufjan Stevens

Wow. What an amazing concert I went to tonight (well last night by now). If you're not familiar with Sufjan Stevens (pronounced soofyan), you should definitely pick up his latest album titled Illinois or any of his older ones. My friend Nelson bought Read More...
Posted Sunday, July 24, 2005 5:12 AM by borisj | 1 Comments
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Chat: The Visual Studio Debugger, July 28th @ 1pm Pacific Time

I'll be participating in an online chat about debugger features next week. There will be members of the core debugger team online who can answer almost any question you might have. I'll be there to answer some of the C++ specific questions, so feel free Read More...
Posted Friday, July 22, 2005 6:58 PM by borisj | 0 Comments

Testing new internal blog posting tool

Hopefully this works and I'll start posting more often. I've been playing with the idea of using OneNote to write up posts as well... Read More...
Posted Friday, July 15, 2005 3:34 PM by borisj | 0 Comments

I want this keyboard

Found this keyboard on /. today, looks like a really cool idea. Update : It's not everyday you get ahead of Scoble on finding these things. Then again that probably means I should curtail on the surfing :) Read More...
Posted Thursday, July 14, 2005 11:16 AM by borisj | 6 Comments
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The design of C++0x

Bjarne (no last name needed on a C++ oriented blog) posted this article in the May edition of the C/C++ Users Journal, discussing the upcoming new C++ standard that's being developed by the ISO C++ committee. I noticed the Lambda the Ultimate picked it Read More...
Posted Wednesday, July 06, 2005 7:32 PM by borisj | 4 Comments

Google Maps Mania

Well I suppose this was inevitable. There are now so many Google Maps hacks (err... applications) that someone has created a blog dedicated to following up on them. On that note, if you haven't checked out Google Earth , you really must. I can't wait Read More...
Posted Wednesday, July 06, 2005 7:26 PM by borisj | 62 Comments

Vertical Guidelines

Now here is a feature that we should expose far more prominently (and I'll push the core team to do so) that I think many developers will appreciate. There's a registry key that allows users to make vertical lines appear in the VS code editor so that Read More...
Posted Friday, July 01, 2005 2:44 PM by borisj | 64 Comments
 
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