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pcooper — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 18:05:13 GMT

You mean, "back in 2003", right?

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J. Edward Sanchez — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 18:07:06 GMT

This book has been on my wish list at my online bookstore for several months now. I'm really looking forward to it.

Congratulations on the book, and on a fantastic blog!

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Scott — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 18:08:15 GMT

How big is the book? My book purchases are based on whether or not I can read the book while in bed. The large size computer books are too big for that.

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Joy — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 18:23:36 GMT

Go Raymond! We knew you could do it!

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Tom — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 18:24:11 GMT

If only it were available before Christmas, it would be on my list. Wait a minute... Maybe I can get someone to pre-order it as a gift and have it delivered next year. Yeah... That's not a bad idea!

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Rob — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 18:24:58 GMT

Now I know what to get with the inevitable Amazon gift certificate.

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Jeff — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 18:38:01 GMT

Just pre-ordered my copy. Thanks for writing this!

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Allan Nelson — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 18:50:16 GMT

Preordered at Amazon. Thanks for the blog

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kiwiblue — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 18:53:38 GMT

What's the amount of new, sprinkled-in material? That's the deciding factor for me.

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Joke — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 19:00:38 GMT

Okay, I changed my mind, I don't want to buy a book based on this blog.

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Thu, 07 Dec 2006 19:20:20 GMT

I'll buy it only if there are Bob anecdotes.

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richard — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 19:26:15 GMT

I hate fat books - I try to chew through 2 or 3 books a week. I can't do that if they are 700+ pages long (or more like 1500+ for programming books - it seems).

I love 200 page books, they are the ideal length - easily read in an evening (or two if they are crammed with info). Tell your publisher that there are readers who eschew the heavy tomes for thinner fare. In the late 70s, I noticed books started getting fatter. I hated it and always looked for (and continue to look for) books around 200 pages.

I would be happier to buy the book as two 200-250 page volumes than a single 500 page volume. Imagine if Knuth wrote The Art of Computer Programming today - I am sure the publisher would insist on the first three volumes being bound as a single fat volume.

I'll probably buy it, but tell your publisher that thinner is better.

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James Bray — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 20:00:54 GMT

Pre-ordered. Roll on January :-)

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Sean W. — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 20:13:12 GMT

Awesome. Truly awesome. *goes off to Amazon to pre-order...*

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BOFH — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 20:15:37 GMT

At least you might make christmas in the eastern orthodox countries where holidays still operate on the Julian calendar.

The books sounds intriguing, I'll admit it...

Can it be bought in electronic form, either as PDF or CHM?

[I don't know, but I suspect it'll follow the pattern of other AW books and show up on Safari. -Raymond]

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Dan McCarty — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 20:19:43 GMT

Nice job, Raymond. I hope that the book does very well for you!

But we have to know: does the book contain any line art or images?

I KID I KID! :P

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Matt Davis — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 20:19:45 GMT

Excellent- pre-order complete!

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Stefan Kuhr — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 20:21:54 GMT

Great thing for sure. I preordered it and I am really curious what I will get in January. Keep on the good work. Raymond, does this have anything to do with your May 2006 posting "Raymond makes a psychic prediction for 2006"? Or has this riddle already been solved meanwhile and I just didn't notice?

[I wonder if people actually read my stuff before commenting. "I will post the actual prediction at the end of the year," it says right at the top. -Raymond]

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Cody — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 20:31:11 GMT

"But we have to know: does the book contain any line art or images?"

And do they render properly? ;)

[Screenshots in books suck since paper is much higher resolution than the screen. The line art came out okay though. -Raymond]

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Fox Cutter — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 20:32:35 GMT

Preordered. :)

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TimMisiak — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 20:34:33 GMT

Hurray! Pre-ordering now!

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benjamin — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 20:36:00 GMT

Man, $50 for a paperback? On one hand, it's Raymond, on another, $50.

Decisions, decisions.

[It says $40 for me. Or maybe you're including tax and shipping? Just imagine how much more the 700-page book would've cost. -Raymond]

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typoo — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 20:43:57 GMT

Only 26 bucks at Bookpool......

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me — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 20:51:32 GMT

I'm glad you too have noticed the title fad; it's irked me for years.

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Eric Schneider — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 20:51:35 GMT

Cool! What can I say, I preordered too. :>

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Pointy — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 21:00:07 GMT

Quick question Raymond: is most of the material rehashed (and perhaps expanded) from the blog, or is there a lot of stuff you've not written about here? Asking because I'm kind of poor at the moment...

[It's about 1/6 new, 5/6 old (but the old stuff is better-written now). -Raymond]

"Size does matter"

Anonymous coward — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 21:06:33 GMT

Who are the guis who completly read 500-700 pages technical books? Those are hard, you have to put the book down and think for a few minutes all the time. On those kind of books I usually get arround by skipping stuff or I never finish it.

Do they really need a 500 page book or they evaluate a book like a supermarket meat packet?

Sorry Raymond, I know that this post should be a kind of annyversary moment.

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Eber Irigoyen — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 21:08:08 GMT

pre-ordered

...and according to Addison-Wesley my book will be shipping on 12/08!

I quote

"If you submit your order now it should ship on 12/08/2006."

whooohoo!!

OldNewThing - Raymond Chen's new Book

James Finnigan — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 21:12:48 GMT

Okay, I changed my mind, I wrote a book after all Back in 1993, I wrote that I'm doing this instead of

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Carlos — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 21:13:03 GMT

It's $55 here in the UK :(

I hope that translates into extra royalties.

[Nope, it translates into less. -Raymond]

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gm — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 21:18:14 GMT

pre-ordered!

And mine is "shipping" on the 7th.

-garret

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Bob (no relation) — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 21:22:18 GMT

Not preordered, but I'm definitely picking one up after the holidays. Heck, I'd buy it just to know all the "taxes" my group's apps don't pay!

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Steve — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 21:27:13 GMT

Preordered - now you can start on a book of the Win95 stories ;)

At last I can break the silence

Under The Hood - Matt Pietrek — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 21:33:42 GMT

OK... It's not a super-duper juicy revelation, but it's exciting to me. Raymond Chen has finally gone

Congratulations!

JenK — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 21:34:42 GMT

Doing any signings? Third Place or U Bookstore might be interested.

(I bet the company store gets requests to carry it ;)

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JamesNT — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 21:37:13 GMT

Mr. Chen,

You will be pleased to know that I pre-ordered your book at Amazon.com on Sept. 23 of this year.

James

On Order

sherriman — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 22:02:09 GMT

I usually don't post "me too" comments, but I just ordered the book too.

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Justin Olbrantz (Quantam) — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 22:04:05 GMT

"Now I get to see how many people were lying when they said, "If you wrote a book based on this blog, I'd buy it.""

I never said that. Although I might buy it anyway.

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Cooney — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 22:21:53 GMT

[It says $40 for me. Or maybe you're including tax and shipping? Just imagine how much more the 700-page book would've cost. -Raymond]

How's that work? Every -huge- book I've bought hs been an awful waste of space to the point where I don't buy them any more. Of course, those were SAMS books.

Anyway, if it's $40, why not hardcover?

[Um, because if it were hardcover it wouldn't be $40? -Raymond]

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Ben Cooke — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 22:23:40 GMT

I'd have pre-ordered it right off the bat if I hadn't just bought a load of books only yesterday. I'll try to remember to buy it a bit closer to release. (I'm sure you'll post about it in your blog again in the mean time, anyway. :) )

For those UK folk who are interested, Amazon.co.uk has the book on pre-order for £27.54.

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Mihai — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 22:39:49 GMT

Just preordered it at Amazon :-)

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Mike Dunn — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 22:50:50 GMT

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Amanjit Gill — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 23:04:01 GMT

Preordered @ amazon.

GO, GO, GO :-)

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Daniel — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 23:09:34 GMT

Any ETA on the German and Swedish editions? :-)

Congratulations

Calin Iaru — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 23:13:03 GMT

Hi Raymond,

hartly congratulations for writing this book. I have been reading your blog regularly. Do you know if others area about to `write the talk`? Perhaps Larry Osterman, Doron Holan or Rob Short.

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WikiServerGuy — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 23:13:21 GMT

1993? Erm, 2003 right ;) (if there was a blog 12 years ago from you I'd like to know about it! :D)

Maybe I missed something...

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Jan Van Ryswyck — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 23:15:52 GMT

I'm not going to lie to you: I'm looking forward to this book for many years now!

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BrianK — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 23:16:27 GMT

Wow - $39.99. I'd love to read it, but that's a little steep. May have to wait until there are some used ones out there. Anybody want to sell theirs around Feb 07? Why do technical books cost so much?

Brian

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Igor Delovski — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 23:23:05 GMT

Done!

My order at Amazon:

1. ATL Internals Paperback by Brent E. Rector

2. Quartz 2D Graphics for Mac OS X... Paperback by R. Scott Thompson

3. The Old New Thing: Practical... Paperback by Raymond Chen

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Thu, 07 Dec 2006 23:28:41 GMT

Pre-ordered, looking forward to it! I've always wanted a copy of this blog that I could sit and read off-line.

Out of curiosity (I couldn't glean this from the info or I didn't read hard enough), did you include any comments or your comment responses at all?

[Part of what made it "better-written" was incorporating feedback from comments. -Raymond]

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Stefan Kuhr — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 23:29:18 GMT

"I wonder if people actually read my stuff before commenting. "I will post the actual prediction at the end of the year," it says right at the top"

Raymond, I know you wrote this. But you somehow managed to challenge everyone to guess what it is. Or do you have a number of generated predictions that will all have the same hash and on 12/31/2006 you will chose the most appropriate one? Did anybody find out what it is, did I miss something? I sometimes miss some of your blogposts or readers' comments. So why shouldn't it be "I wrote a book this year"?

[Please read the article again. That's all I'm going to say. -Raymond]

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Ben Combee — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 23:37:21 GMT

Very cool! I've added this to my wishlist on Amazon, and if no one pre-orders it for me for Christmas, I'll pick it up in January.

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KTamas — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 23:53:45 GMT

$25 to get it shipped to Hungary. Gotta start savin' for some Win32 bedtime stories.

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BryanK — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 23:55:13 GMT

I won't preorder it now, but I will be checking in from time to time to see when it gets released, and I'll likely order it then. (Along with that book on quantum mechanics that I've been meaning to read...)

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Brian — Fri, 08 Dec 2006 00:04:04 GMT

[Nope, it translates into less. -Raymond]

http://www.crystalreportsbook.com/SelfPublishing_02.asp

Holy cow, according to that site, most books sell 5,000 copies! If we only sold 5,000 copies of our software, we'd go bankrupt. Heck, we consider it a failure if it only sells 500,000.

Raymond, I hope you sell more than 5,000 copies of your book. I'll help by buying one.

You couldn't get Microsoft Press to publish it?

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Stefan Kuhr — Fri, 08 Dec 2006 00:04:56 GMT

"Please read the article again. That's all I'm going to say"

Hhm, you wrote "Revealing my prediction now may influence the event itself". This is most probably not true for "I wrote a book this year". I will eagerly await the end of the year.

[I tried twice to end this thread. Please let it die. -Raymond]

The Old New Thing

OPC Diary — Fri, 08 Dec 2006 00:26:50 GMT

The Old New Thing : Okay, I changed my m...

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James — Fri, 08 Dec 2006 00:31:01 GMT

"Or do you have a number of generated predictions that will all have the same hash and on 12/31/2006 you will chose the most appropriate one?"

Very unlikely - generating hash collisions is difficult, unless your hash function isn't any good. Since Raymond posted both MD5 and SHA1 hashes, the chances Raymond - or anyone else - could find even two predictions which collided in both functions are extremely slim indeed.

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Jonathan Rascher — Fri, 08 Dec 2006 00:38:36 GMT

Awesome! I know what I want for Christmas. :)

PS: It's only $31.99 at Barnes & Noble ($28.79 for members), with free shipping.

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Kelly — Fri, 08 Dec 2006 01:16:36 GMT

This is great news. Any word from the publisher if the book will be available an an e-text format?

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Jonathan Wilson — Fri, 08 Dec 2006 03:11:56 GMT

Now this sounds like a book I would get use out of.

All I gotta do is find someone who will sell it to me here in australia :)

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Igor — Fri, 08 Dec 2006 03:22:46 GMT

Congratulations Raymond. I can't wait to read your book.

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Paul M. Parks — Fri, 08 Dec 2006 03:25:37 GMT

"If only it were available before Christmas, it would be on my list."

There are some seventh graders that might have some ideas about how to accomplish that.

PMP

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Stephen — Fri, 08 Dec 2006 03:59:49 GMT

If/when the book's "hot time" ends, try to buy the remainders, like Harlan Ellison does, then you can sell personally autographed copies for full price at talks and conventions.

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Troy Phillips — Fri, 08 Dec 2006 04:24:56 GMT

Congratulations on the book Raymond, I hope it does great. The whole book publishing process seems quite blokely, so I don't think anyone will accuse you of "publishing like a girl" :)

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Andy C — Fri, 08 Dec 2006 09:26:21 GMT

Preordered on Amazon. Looking forward to the new year.

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Brent Newbury — Fri, 08 Dec 2006 12:10:49 GMT

Congratulations on the book.

I'm really pleased to hear you've penned down your knowledge for us to read in our own time.

Although, I'm sorry to say, I probably won't buy the book. I love reading your blog for insight into non-Wind32 issues (e.g. when you should use bloon notifications on icons in the Notification Area). Sometimes I have no idea what your talking about when you do Win32 stuff, but I try and understand it as somethings are in some way vaguely relevant (hey, .NET boils down to Win32 api calls).

I just wanted to say Congratulations and keep upp all the good work.

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Norman Diamond — Fri, 08 Dec 2006 12:18:10 GMT

> Nobody buys Win32 books any more, that

> dinosaur!"

Yeah, because used ones cost tons more than they did new. Some of the prices are as big as dinosaurs. Oh yeah, here's another use for that time machine.

> It's about 1/6 new, 5/6 old

And 6/6 old new.

> I tried twice to end this thread. Please let

> it die.

Too bad you can't do anything about it, it's stuck in kernel mode and it's not your fault.

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Yuvi — Fri, 08 Dec 2006 14:06:25 GMT

I'ld sell my soul to buy it...

Preordered!

Lorenzo — Fri, 08 Dec 2006 14:10:34 GMT

Just preordered! Thank you, Raymond!

Pingback: http://www.loz.it/dblog/articolo.asp?articolo=6

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bw — Fri, 08 Dec 2006 14:37:34 GMT

I would buy this 700 pages book without blinking an eye!

:(((((((((((((((((((((

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Yuvi — Fri, 08 Dec 2006 14:39:22 GMT

I'd sell my soul to buy it...

Any takers?

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Michael — Fri, 08 Dec 2006 16:00:59 GMT

Excellent! I'm really going to buy this one

From Bits to Book

Jeff Stong — Fri, 08 Dec 2006 16:30:36 GMT

One of my favorite blogs is now a book. A lot can be learned by understanding...

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Michael Puff — Fri, 08 Dec 2006 16:56:58 GMT

Will there be a German edition? Maybe translated by the author himself? ;)

..

JD — Fri, 08 Dec 2006 21:00:45 GMT

You want to use this URL

http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2006/12/07/1233002.aspx#1233622

to point to Eber's comment. Your current url is incorrect.

And congratulations on your book, I will be buying it when it releases! :)

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Cooney — Sat, 09 Dec 2006 02:41:38 GMT

[Um, because if it were hardcover it wouldn't be $40? -Raymond]

why's that? The production cost is about the same.

[Whether that's true or not, bookstores certainly charge more for the hardcover. -Raymond]

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Dennis E. Hamilton — Sat, 09 Dec 2006 02:49:13 GMT

Amazon has it for pre-order, with a publication date of December 29.

We'll see if it arrives sooner.

I can't wait to find out why you press the Start button to do a Shutdown.

Thanks, I'm going to love this.

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Lorenzo — Sat, 09 Dec 2006 04:04:42 GMT

"I can't wait to find out why you press the Start button to do a Shutdown."

Because, even to shutdown the system, you have to start from somewhere...

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Maurits — Sat, 09 Dec 2006 04:43:18 GMT

> bookstores certainly charge more for the hardcover

Market segmentation.

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Edge — Sat, 09 Dec 2006 06:15:31 GMT

Pre-ordered from Bookpool. Congrats Raymond. =)

Raymond Chen ... su carta :-)

Claudio Brotto — Sun, 10 Dec 2006 00:48:20 GMT

Come da suo post. A detta dell'autore (si deduce anche da una prima occhiata alla TOC): It's a selection...

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demattel — Mon, 11 Dec 2006 16:52:32 GMT

Preordered at Amazon. Thank you!

Explaining 'why'

Mathemagenic — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 21:23:45 GMT

Raymond is writing a book after all

alexbarnett.net blog — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 01:56:43 GMT

Thanks to Lilia Efimova , I saw Raymond Chen's news of a book he's publishing in Jan, 2007: 'Old

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ArC — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 23:47:11 GMT

Ah, if only you'd actually titled the book "Catchy Phrase: Longer Explanation of What the Catchy Phrase Means"!

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Sarath — Thu, 14 Dec 2006 09:50:18 GMT

Hi Raymond,

I was a bit late to check the blog.

Whatever be the size of the book I'll definitely buy one. This one which I've been waiting for..

thanks alot for writing on such an interesting topic like win32. Hope your scratch program too be there in the new book :)

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suren — Sat, 16 Dec 2006 08:49:16 GMT

Raymond:

I look forward to read your book. You should keep the title as Win3(2.0) in this web 2.0 age or May be Win32 "Live" to cath up with MS Live strategy :)

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Mr. Ed — Sun, 17 Dec 2006 11:41:42 GMT

How much of the book is in Swedish?

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Roger — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 01:21:18 GMT

Raymond wrote: "the current fad of giving your book a title of the form Catchy Phrase: Longer Explanation of What the Catchy Phrase Means."

This fad may have had a "current" resurgence, but I hope you didn't mean to imply it was a new phenomenon. Just look at the titles of technical books from the 16th and 17th centuries.

[Book] Raymond Chen sort (enfin) un livre !

Patrice Lamarche — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 16:31:02 GMT

Raymond Chen l'auteur d'un de mes blogs techniques préférés (bien que traitant de Win32) The Old New

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cardcover — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 13:28:09 GMT

Where can I order the hardcover? isbn?

The Old New Thing : The Old New Thing book will also be available electronically

The Old New Thing : The Old New Thing book will also be available electronically — Mon, 25 Dec 2006 18:00:18 GMT

PingBack from http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2006/12/25/1361289.aspx

The Portable Old New Thing

David Kline — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 22:42:26 GMT

I know I'm a little late on this one... During the recent Seattle area snow event , I was able to get

Unexpected consequences of writing a book: Public appearances

The Old New Thing — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 18:24:25 GMT

You have to accept this stuff now.

Raymond Chen ... su carta :-)

Claudio Brotto — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 13:12:39 GMT

Come da suo post . A detta dell'autore (si deduce anche da una prima occhiata alla TOC ): It's a selection

Why, when you sort by name, doesn't it actually sort by name?

The Old New Thing — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 17:42:14 GMT

Because "Sort according to the default sort order for the column whose title is... Name" is too long.

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OldNewThing - Raymond Chen's new *Book*

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Congratulations!

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