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September 2008 - Posts

Tuesday, September 30, 2008 7:00 AM

2008 Q3 link clearance: Microsoft blogger edition

From elsewhere in the collective.
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Tuesday, September 30, 2008 7:00 AM

When computer programmers dabble in economics: Buying prepaid lunch vouchers

Doing the math.
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Monday, September 29, 2008 7:00 AM

Meet the authors: Mario Hewardt and Daniel Pravat, authors of Advanced Windows Debugging

At the PDC pre-con.
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Monday, September 29, 2008 7:00 AM

Anybody can make up a generic mapping

It describes how the GENERIC_* access mask should be interpreted
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Friday, September 26, 2008 7:00 AM

ERRORLEVEL is not %ERRORLEVEL%

One is a concept; the other is an environment variable.
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Thursday, September 25, 2008 7:00 AM

The description of my 2008 PDC talk is wrong

The title is okay, sort of.
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Thursday, September 25, 2008 7:00 AM

Even if a function doesn't do anything, you still have to call it if the documentation says so, because it might do something tomorrow

The sad history of GetEnvironmentStrings().
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Wednesday, September 24, 2008 7:00 AM

When attending a training session on how not to mess up your life, try not to mess up your life

Then again, that's why you're taking the class, right?
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Wednesday, September 24, 2008 7:00 AM

How do I change the size of my desktop icons?

You may have changed them without realizing it.
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Tuesday, September 23, 2008 7:00 AM

Microspeak: Space delivery

But space is all around you.
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Monday, September 22, 2008 7:00 AM

News flash: Doing something that requires your attention reduces your ability to do other things at the same time which also require your attention

Apparently people didn't realize this.
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Monday, September 22, 2008 7:00 AM

I've seen why people steal the foreground window for their dialog box

Maybe it's because they didn't know any better, but not always.
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Friday, September 19, 2008 7:00 AM

Steamy coffee leaves grounds for concern

I'm embarrassed for the bad pun.
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Friday, September 19, 2008 7:00 AM

How can I tell that a directory is weird and should be excluded from the user interface?

The hidden and system attributes.
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Thursday, September 18, 2008 7:00 AM

How can I tell that a directory is really a recycle bin?

You can ask for its description ID.
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Wednesday, September 17, 2008 7:00 AM

Well at least that's one fewer program that relies on window handles being even numbers

One down, who-knows-how-many to go.
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Tuesday, September 16, 2008 7:00 AM

The purpose of charts is normally to make information easier, not harder, to understand

The useless pie chart.
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Monday, September 15, 2008 7:00 AM

I no longer have to remind the payroll department to gear up for annual raises

They finally figured it out.
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Friday, September 12, 2008 7:00 AM

The terms of service you have to accept before you can see them

A legal catch-22.
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Friday, September 12, 2008 7:00 AM

Who is responsible for destroying the font passed in the WM_SETFONT message?

Whoever created it.
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Thursday, September 11, 2008 7:00 AM

For a place that's supposed to be full of doctors, they sure don't look like doctors

Except for Anthony Edwards.
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Thursday, September 11, 2008 7:00 AM

Suggestion Box 3, short answers (part 2 of who knows how many)

Short answers.
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Wednesday, September 10, 2008 7:00 AM

And now, your moment of reflection

According to Ira Glass.
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Wednesday, September 10, 2008 7:00 AM

What were ShellExecute hooks designed for?

And what they weren't.
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Tuesday, September 09, 2008 7:00 AM

If you use an absurd signature, I might end up sending it back to you

But it's only turnabout.
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Monday, September 08, 2008 7:00 AM

I'll see (some of) you in Los Angeles, but this time it'll be October

PDC 2008.
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Monday, September 08, 2008 7:00 AM

QueryPerformanceCounter counts elapsed time, not CPU cycles

Because that's what it's spec'd to do.
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Friday, September 05, 2008 7:00 AM

Tales from the interview: Anticipating your own incompetence is not a good interview strategy

Where do you see yourself in five years?
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Thursday, September 04, 2008 7:00 AM

Tales from the interview: Lunch is not a competition, episode 2

Both sides will lose.
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Wednesday, September 03, 2008 7:00 AM

Tales from the interview: Lunch is not a competition

Order what you want, it's okay.
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Tuesday, September 02, 2008 7:00 AM

Tales from the interview: Can you rotate this two-dimensional array?

No.
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Monday, September 01, 2008 7:00 AM

It helps if you write a cover letter and remember the name of your interviewer

It makes you stand out from the crowd.
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Monday, September 01, 2008 7:00 AM

How do I convert an error code to text when FORMAT_MESSAGE_FROM_SYSTEM doesn't work?

It depends where you got it from.
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