A collegue of mine pointed to me today a chapter from a book called “The UNIX-HATERS Handbook”, published by IDG Books Worldwide Inc. in 1994 (ISBN 1-56884-203-1). One of the latest chapters is called “Creators Admit C, Unix Were Hoax”. In this chapter the authors say that Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie and Brian Kernighan addmited…
Month: April 2007
MFC in Orcas: support for Vista’s command button
MFC in Orcas comes with several important changes, such as support for Vista specific command button and split button. I have put together a small demo application displaying a command button with the tex Say “Hello Vista” and the note “Click on this button to show a “Hello Vista” message!”. The command button is still…
Google and the April Fool’s Day
Google seems to take the April’s Fool Day very seriously. 😉 They did two practical jokes, and I’m wondering how many people did fall for it. First, was the Toilet Internet Service Provider, or TiSP. Yes that was a practical joke, of course. 🙂 Second, they posted this page about a new service: Gmail on…
What’s new in Orcas for VC++
Channel9 has posted recently an interview with Sarita Bafna, a Program Manager on the VC++ Libraries team, about the new features available in Orcas (in March CTP also) for VC++. The interview is focused on 2 things: marshaling library and MFC updates. The marshaling library consists on one single API, marshal_as, for marshaling between managed…
TiSP, latest service from Google
Google did it again: they just launched a free in-home wireless broadband service, called TiSP, available for now in a BETA version. According to google, TiSP is a Google TiSP (BETA) is a fully functional, end-to-end system that provides in-home wireless access by connecting your commode-based TiSP wireless router to one of thousands of TiSP…