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November 2006 - Posts

Proofreading...

So this morning, I was reading the PI's Microsoft blog and noticed this post: Google, Microsoft, Yahoo in 'SiteMaps' pact . Cool! So I went to the Live Search blog post mentioned in the PI article , and went to the Sitemaps.Org site. I was curious, so Read More...
Posted Thursday, November 16, 2006 10:23 AM by LarryOsterman | 7 Comments

Flattening the world

Yesterday, I finally decided to bite the bullet and flatten my dev machine. I got this machine in 2003, and obviously installed XP on it, I've been self-hosting Vista on it since some time around April of this year, upgrading just about every week. The Read More...
Posted Thursday, November 16, 2006 9:22 AM by LarryOsterman | 16 Comments

What's wrong with this code, part 19 - the answer

In yesterday's post , I asked about a relatively simple piece of code that tried to use the COM type conversion logic to determine if a parameter to a function is an integer index or string key. Here's the code, for reference: HRESULT GetValue(VARIANT Read More...
Posted Tuesday, November 14, 2006 10:32 AM by LarryOsterman | 6 Comments

What's wrong with this code, part 19

Wow, I've done 19 of these? Cool. I got an email question from a reader earlier today, and I realized that his question would make a great "What's wrong with this code" question. He has a C++ function "GetValue" that is used to retrieve a value from something Read More...
Posted Monday, November 13, 2006 11:03 AM by LarryOsterman | 16 Comments

The Sounds of Vista

I actually didn't think this would be a big deal. Shows you what little I know. It started yesterday afternoon. I had an errand to run (Parent Teacher conferences), so I left work at about 12:00. When I got back, I noticed a NorthWestCableNews van sitting Read More...
Posted Friday, November 10, 2006 9:21 AM by LarryOsterman | 18 Comments
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Four years ago...

I was working in building 50, the SCP project was clearly approaching it's end-of-life, and I was casting around the company looking for new opportunities. When a project is end-of-lifed, the powers that be usually try to find a new home for all the people Read More...
Posted Wednesday, November 08, 2006 10:40 AM by LarryOsterman | 21 Comments

Resolution to my IE CTRL-D problem

A long time ago, I complained to the IE team on their blog : So how do I disable the CTRL-D "add-to-favorites" behavior? It's my one major objection to IE6. The problem is that CTRL-D is also the "delete email" link, and I have my email on one monitor Read More...
Posted Thursday, November 02, 2006 9:30 AM by LarryOsterman | 18 Comments
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