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Bobs Math

And now for something completely different... As anyone who reads my blog regularly, I often put forward items that come from the classroom where Valorie works. Well, today's no different. For the season break, I thought I'd share one of their homework Read More...
Posted Friday, December 17, 2004 10:47 AM by LarryOsterman | 9 Comments
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WMDG loses one of its own.

So often, you don't hear about the developers who work behind the curtains here at Microsoft. Today I'd like to talk a bit about one of them. One of the key developers on Windows Multimedia at Microsoft is Syon Bhattacharya. Syon was responsible for many Read More...
Posted Thursday, December 16, 2004 4:36 PM by LarryOsterman | 17 Comments
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Win32 on Win64 Registry support

We've recently spent a bit of time ensuring that we have a good Win64 story for our components. For the vast majority of our stuff, it's pretty trivial - our component's a part of the windows base, so it's a 64bit native application, done. But of course Read More...
Posted Wednesday, December 15, 2004 11:08 AM by LarryOsterman | 1 Comments
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What does _imp_<Function> mean?

Someone here just asked this question to one of our internal mailing lists: I think this is a rather basic question, but I can’t find an answer in any debugging books I have or on the Net with google. How does “_imp” get added to function names and what Read More...
Posted Tuesday, December 14, 2004 1:19 PM by LarryOsterman | 3 Comments
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Moving Offices

Well, last week, we had yet another office move. Office moves are sort-of a tradition at Microsoft, this one's something like my 20th. Personally I think that management schedules them just to make sure we don't collect too much junk in our offices... Read More...
Posted Monday, December 13, 2004 1:43 PM by LarryOsterman | 21 Comments
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Going dark until next week

No posts until then, moving offices and... Read More...
Posted Tuesday, December 07, 2004 5:28 PM by LarryOsterman | 0 Comments

Interview Questions

Heather, Gretchen and Zoe are going to kill me for this one, but it was cute... Yesterday, we had a 5th anniversary lunch for one of the developers on our team. One of the other developers related the following story about his internal interview. First Read More...
Posted Tuesday, December 07, 2004 5:24 PM by LarryOsterman | 18 Comments

I couldn't pass this by: KenJen's now working for Microsoft as a spokesman for Encarta

From Betanews (found on Neowin): Jeopardy Whiz becomes Encarta Spokesman You go dude! Read More...
Posted Monday, December 06, 2004 2:21 PM by LarryOsterman | 1 Comments

Slavish Compatibility

It's no secret the levels of effort that Microsoft goes through to maintain software compatibility. However, it's not as well known that Microsoft's hardware division has a similar passion for compatibility Back in the early 1990s, Valorie worked on printer Read More...
Posted Monday, December 06, 2004 10:58 AM by LarryOsterman | 20 Comments

Why doesn't Disney's "Adventures in Typing with Timon and Pumba" work on my PC?

Sorry for the sort-of dorky title, it's for google. Today, Sharron finally finished the Aventures in Typing program. Her 3/4 class uses it to teach typing (yeah, they teach typing to 3rd graders these days). It's actually a pretty cool typing program. Read More...
Posted Friday, December 03, 2004 3:08 PM by LarryOsterman | 16 Comments

Why is the compiler flag for symbols -Zi?

If you want the compiler to emit symbols for your application, you need to specify the " /Zi " command line switch. But where on earth did they chose "i" for the flag to enable symbols? It has to do with the original Microsoft symbolic debugger. Way back Read More...
Posted Thursday, December 02, 2004 11:08 AM by LarryOsterman | 5 Comments

Hiding Complexity

In a comment on yesterday's post, Manip asked: Larry: You said Macros work to hide the complexity and say so like it is a bad thing.. ? Excuse me but I thought that was the POINT of using a Macro.. Actually, in the world in which I live (writing systems Read More...
Posted Wednesday, December 01, 2004 10:37 AM by LarryOsterman | 22 Comments
 
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