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Microspeak: Funded / unfunded
8 days ago
Recall that Microspeak is not merely for jargon exclusive to Microsoft, but...
The perils of binding to value types in XAML
7 days ago
A colleague ran into trouble with their XAML program. They were using...
Why didn’t the Windows Entertainment Pack just run the MS-DOS version inside an emulator?
15 days ago
I mentioned a little while ago that Tony Krueger reverse-engineered the MS-DOS...
In the product end game, every change carries significant risk, episode 2
14 days ago
A colleague related this story of a bug that arose at the...
On forcing all derived classes to implement a specific non-virtual method, part 1
13 days ago
You may have a base class that implements only partial functionality and...
On forcing all derived classes to implement a specific non-virtual method, part 2
12 days ago
Last time, we observed that one way to force all derived classes...
AWE does not require PAE, though PAE makes it much more useful
9 days ago
The Address Windowing Extensions (AWE) is a feature of Windows that allows...
Reducing C++ template bloat by factoring out the type-dependent portions of the function
20 days ago
C++ templates let you reuse code, but it comes at a cost...
Reducing C++ template bloat by factoring out the type-dependent portions of the function, practical exam
19 days ago
A short time ago, we observed that there’s usually no need to...
Comparing the two holograms on the Windows 95 box
16 days ago
I noted some time ago that the Windows 95 anti-piracy hologram had...
Why did the Microsoft Entertainment Pack for Windows have a special sticker announcing that it also had Tetris?
22 days ago
The first Microsoft Entertainment Pack for Windows didn’t have a number after...
On wrapping a callable in a lambda that just calls it with the same parameters
21 days ago
Suppose you have a function that accepts a lambda and wants to...