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PDC 2008, Day 3

I got finished late yesterday, so sorry this post is coming so late. Yesterday was yet another blast.  I got up, had a “real” breakfast in the hotel buffet (I’m not sure it was actually better than the breakfast at the PDC though :().  Then Read More...
Posted Thursday, October 30, 2008 9:11 AM by LarryOsterman | 9 Comments
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PDC 2008, Day Two

Wow, it’s midnight on day two. What a day. I started the day at the Win7 keynote. It was amazing how the product was received by our customers – I’m really gratified that people seemed to like what they saw. You know you’re in a group of geeks when the Read More...
Posted Wednesday, October 29, 2008 12:28 AM by LarryOsterman | 13 Comments
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PDC 2008, Day 1

Wow, today’s been a long day. For whatever reason, I woke up at 4 AM and wasn’t able to get back to sleep :(. On the other hand, I did get this cool picture from outside my window: When I got to the convention center I discovered that they were right Read More...
Posted Monday, October 27, 2008 9:02 PM by LarryOsterman | 1 Comments
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I'm in LA!

I just got into LA and checked into my hotel for the PDC.  The flight was uneventful, while I was flying down, there was a most amazing sunset (I was in an isle seat so the picture’s kinda blurry – I didn’t have anything to stabilize the shot and Read More...
Posted Sunday, October 26, 2008 10:32 PM by LarryOsterman | 3 Comments
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Chrome is fixing the file download bug…

I just noticed that Ryan Naraine has written that Google’s fixed the file download bug in Chrome . This is awesome, but there’s one aspect of the fix that concerns me. According to the changelog : This CL adds prompting for dangerous types of files (executable) Read More...
Posted Monday, October 20, 2008 2:17 PM by LarryOsterman | 13 Comments
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Engineering 7: A view from the bottom

About 2 months ago, Steven Sinofsky and Jon DeVaan started the “ Engineering Windows 7 ” blog.  The instant I saw the blog, I wanted to contribute to the blog (because I love writing :)). I spent a fair amount of time thinking about what to write Read More...
Posted Thursday, October 16, 2008 7:43 AM by LarryOsterman | 8 Comments

I get spam :)

I just received this spam message the other day: From: Microsoft [mailto:customerservice@microsoft.com] Sent: Saturday, October 11, 2008 11:13 PM To: Larry Osterman Subject: Security Update for OS Microsoft Windows Dear Microsoft Customer, Please notice Read More...
Posted Tuesday, October 14, 2008 9:13 AM by LarryOsterman | 18 Comments

What really happens when you shutdown Windows?

About a year or so ago, I wrote a post that talked about the Windows shutdown experience.   A couple of the people reading the post asked for more details, and it turns out that the performance folks have just issued this paper which describes (in Read More...
Posted Thursday, October 09, 2008 10:47 AM by LarryOsterman | 7 Comments
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What’s wrong with this code, part 24 – the answer

In my last post , I included a snippet from an MSDN article written by Kenny Kerr.  The snippet was pretty straightforward, but had a subtle bug in it: CRect rectangle; VERIFY(m_splitButton.GetWindowRect( &rectangle)); TPMPARAMS params = { sizeof Read More...
Posted Tuesday, October 07, 2008 9:09 AM by LarryOsterman | 6 Comments

What’s wrong with this code part 24 (From an MSDN article)?

I ran into this bug earlier today and realized that it’d make an awesome “What’s wrong with this code”. I started pulling together a test app when I realized that this MSDN magazine article contains sample code that perfectly exhibits the bug: CRect rectangle; Read More...
Posted Monday, October 06, 2008 4:52 PM by LarryOsterman | 23 Comments

The common control library sometimes sends an NMCUSTOMDRAW message for the NM_CUSTOMDRAW notification.

I just fixed a bug in our UI that was caused by a misunderstanding of the API contract for the NM_CUSTOMDRAW handler for some of the common controls. On of October 3rd, 2008 The common control documentation for the NM_CUSTOMDRAW message says: lpNMCustomDraw Read More...
Posted Friday, October 03, 2008 4:37 PM by LarryOsterman | 7 Comments
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