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Thursday, March 31, 2005 6:58 AM

The dialog manager, part 3: Creating the controls

Walk the template items and do what they say.
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Thursday, March 31, 2005 6:58 AM

Neuroscience in the service of basketball fans

Slate's experiment in using neuroscience to distract opposing foul shooters.
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Wednesday, March 30, 2005 7:04 AM

The dialog manager, part 2: Creating the frame window

Walk the template header and do what it says.
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Tuesday, March 29, 2005 8:23 AM

Adventures in product testing: Candles that catch fire

Candles can create a fire hazard, safety commission concludes.
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Tuesday, March 29, 2005 7:04 AM

The dialog manager, part 1: Warm-ups

Preliminary musings.
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Monday, March 28, 2005 7:04 AM

When a program asks you a question and then gets upset if you answer it

The setup program that expected you to answer its questions a certain way.
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Monday, March 28, 2005 7:04 AM

The CEO-to-English Phrase Book, a continuing series from Slate

Those CEOs speak a language not entirely unlike English.
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Friday, March 25, 2005 6:57 AM

If you disable drag/drop on the Start menu, you also disable right-click

This is one of those poorly-worded options.
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Friday, March 25, 2005 6:57 AM

The invisible price reduction

Coop Forum's price reduction that you can't see.
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Thursday, March 24, 2005 6:58 AM

Pointers to virtual functions with adjustors

Two confusing features that explode when you combine them.
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Wednesday, March 23, 2005 7:04 AM

Why does the debugger show me the wrong virtual function?

Pointers to virtual functions all look the same.
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Tuesday, March 22, 2005 7:04 AM

Why does the debugger show me the wrong function?

The linker combines identical functions, though they might not seem identical at first glance.
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Monday, March 21, 2005 7:04 AM

Psychic debugging: Why your expensive four-processor machine is ignoring three of its processors

One bad shell extension can ruin your whole day.
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Friday, March 18, 2005 6:57 AM

Confusion over whether you have Windows XP SP1 or SP2

Ignore the build identification string; it's all very confusing.
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Thursday, March 17, 2005 7:03 AM

Your exception handler can encounter an exception

Just because you caught the exception doesn't mean you're done.
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Thursday, March 17, 2005 7:03 AM

Competing to be the worst-dressed couple in America

On TLC's What Not to Wear.
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Wednesday, March 16, 2005 7:01 AM

The great Alaskan ice sculpture

A giant tower of ice.
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Wednesday, March 16, 2005 7:00 AM

Windows NT Security in Theory and Practice

A well-written series of articles on the Windows NT security model.
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Tuesday, March 15, 2005 7:55 AM

Windows are not cheap objects

The cost of a window handle.
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Monday, March 14, 2005 8:48 AM

Dot-Con Job: How InfoSpace took its investors for a ride

Quality investigative reporting from the Seattle Times.
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Monday, March 14, 2005 8:45 AM

A subtlety in restoring previous window position

Don't put two windows in exactly the same place.
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Friday, March 11, 2005 1:54 PM

VegFest 2005 this weekend - and - vegetarian is as vegetarian does

Vegetarians of Washington host a festival of vegetarian food.
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Friday, March 11, 2005 1:50 PM

Performance gains at the cost of other components

Short-sighted performance is when your component runs faster, regardless of its impact on other components.
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Thursday, March 10, 2005 6:58 AM

Why does SystemParametersInfo hang when I pass the SPIF_SENDCHANGE flag?

The pitfalls of broadcasting messages.
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Wednesday, March 09, 2005 7:01 AM

Using SystemParametersInfo to access user interface settings

Lots of user interface settings are kept here.
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Tuesday, March 08, 2005 7:00 AM

Keep your eye on the code page

There are two 8-bit code pages in common use in Windows. Make sure you know the difference.
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Monday, March 07, 2005 7:00 AM

A timed context menu

Similar to timed message boxes, but much, much simpler.
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Friday, March 04, 2005 7:00 AM

Modality, part 8: A timed MessageBox, the better version

Keeping temporary state in a per-thread location without using TLS.
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Thursday, March 03, 2005 7:01 AM

Raymond's random walk, from Swedish designers to Mr. Monkey

From Swedish designers to Mr. Monkey.
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Thursday, March 03, 2005 7:00 AM

The bonus window bytes at GWLP_USERDATA

A predefined place to hide a pointer-sized value.
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Wednesday, March 02, 2005 8:26 AM

Curling proves itself much more exciting than hockey this year

An amazing come-from-behind victory from Jennifer Jones' rink.
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Wednesday, March 02, 2005 7:00 AM

The scratch window

A dummy helper class for those one-off tasks.
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Tuesday, March 01, 2005 7:00 AM

Modality, part 7: A timed MessageBox, the cheap version

Exploiting the rules for handling of the WM_QUIT message.
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