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June 2006 - Posts

Friday, June 30, 2006 7:00 AM

Congratulations, Montréal, on finally paying for the 1976 Olympic Games

The "Big O[we]".
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Friday, June 30, 2006 7:00 AM

2006 mid-year link clearance

Random stuff.
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Thursday, June 29, 2006 7:00 AM

Generating tooltip text dynamically

Using the TTN_GETDISPINFO notification.
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Wednesday, June 28, 2006 7:00 AM

Multiplexing multiple tools into one in a tooltip

If you have a very high number of tools in one tooltip.
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Tuesday, June 27, 2006 7:00 AM

... so it doesn't poop all over your office

The dangers of conversation fragments.
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Tuesday, June 27, 2006 7:00 AM

Using custom-draw in tooltips to adjust the font

Changing the font is the most common customization.
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Monday, June 26, 2006 7:00 AM

Look who bought my name

What are they up to?
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Monday, June 26, 2006 7:00 AM

Coding in-place tooltips

The TTM_ADJUSTRECT message does the heavy lifting.
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Friday, June 23, 2006 7:00 AM

The subtle usability considerations of conference nametags

There are lots of little details that add up.
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Thursday, June 22, 2006 7:00 AM

The continuing phenomenon of size inflation in fast food

Wendy's "Biggie" is gone, but only in name.
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Thursday, June 22, 2006 7:00 AM

An auto-reset event is just a stupid semaphore

Think of it as a semaphore with a maximum of one token.
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Wednesday, June 21, 2006 7:00 AM

It's still not a democracy, but at least other people have noticed, too

Not much of an election now, is it.
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Wednesday, June 21, 2006 7:00 AM

Psychic debugging: Understanding DDE initiation

Going input idle implies that your DDE server is ready.
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Tuesday, June 20, 2006 7:00 AM

Three-Minute Masterpieces (2006)

Short amateur films.
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Tuesday, June 20, 2006 7:00 AM

A single-instance program is its own denial of service

Knowing your limits when trying to protect against a denial of service.
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Monday, June 19, 2006 7:00 AM

Announcements on the ferry, one self-explanatory, one not

A puzzle.
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Monday, June 19, 2006 7:00 AM

Why can't you programmatically reorder the items on the Start menu?

The power would be used for evil more often than for good.
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Friday, June 16, 2006 7:00 AM

Understanding what significant digits really mean

It's just a shorthand for relative precision.
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Thursday, June 15, 2006 7:00 AM

It's a good idea to get somebody who knows the language to be your proofreader

A simple common-sense rule that manages to elude many people.
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Thursday, June 15, 2006 7:00 AM

Window class properties apply to all windows that belong to the class

That's why they're called class properties.
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Wednesday, June 14, 2006 4:00 AM

Pitfalls of transparent rendering of anti-aliased fonts

Transparent text output requires extra attention.
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Tuesday, June 13, 2006 7:00 AM

Lies and statistics: 600,000 Chinese engineers

Where did this number come from?
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Tuesday, June 13, 2006 7:00 AM

Fumbling around in the dark and stumbling across the wrong solution

It gets worse and worse until it works in the worst way possible.
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Monday, June 12, 2006 4:00 AM

Remember what happens when you broadcast a message

Most messages are not safe to broadcast.
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Friday, June 09, 2006 7:00 AM

What happened to the traffic circle at the corner of 156th Ave NE and NE 56th Way?

It's now a speed bump.
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Friday, June 09, 2006 7:00 AM

Why did the Add or Remove Programs control panel try to guess all that information?

It thought it was trying to help.
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Thursday, June 08, 2006 7:00 AM

The forgotten common controls: The MenuHelp function

It doesn't really help much.
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Wednesday, June 07, 2006 7:00 AM

Disaster averted, thanks to undisclosed government action, no really

You didn't see that tsunami did you.
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Wednesday, June 07, 2006 7:00 AM

If you're going to try to simulate user actions, make sure the user can do them

Otherwise you end up creating the impossible.
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Tuesday, June 06, 2006 7:00 AM

Apparently driving is messed up in a lot of countries

Reactions to tips on driving in Taiwan.
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Tuesday, June 06, 2006 7:00 AM

The forgotten common controls: The page scroller

It was for scrolling menus.
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Monday, June 05, 2006 7:00 AM

Why can't you say </script> in a script block?

Because it ends the script block, of course.
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Friday, June 02, 2006 7:00 AM

What does the CS_CLASSDC class style do?

It reserves a DC for the entire class.
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Thursday, June 01, 2006 7:00 AM

What does the CS_OWNDC class style do?

It reserves a DC for each instance of the class.
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