Charlie Petzold was one of the pioneer Windows development writers, along with Paul Yao and a few others. I didn't write my first Windows development book until 1992, and by then Charlie's books were ...

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When Microsoft developers come to speak of their long-term work, they keep revealing exciting curiosities. So Dave Plummer ...

That's right - 1,752 pages, a whole lot of code, a few chunks of math, and very little space wasted on pictures. Mr. LaMothe, mathematician and computer scientist and author of the immensely ...

Dave Plummer, the Microsoft programmer who ported Pinball from Windows 95 to NT, didn't add a frame limiter to the game, ...

Way back when: People used screensavers to prevent "burn-in" on CRT monitors, where static images could permanently damage the screen. Screensavers like 3D Pipes animated the display during inactivity ...

Dave Plummer ported 3D Pinball (Space Cadet) to Windows NT, but neglected to include a frame rate limiter - so it ran like ...