Even the boss got into the festivities. The post The Microsoft Company Party where everybody played name tag swap appeared first on The Old New Thing.

Generalizing the shuffle to arbitrary numbers of blocks. The post Rotation revisited: Shuffling more than three blocks, and other small notes appeared first on The Old New Thing.

Not doing the reading. The post The back cover of <I>C++: The Programming Language</I> also raises questions not answered by the front cover appeared first on The Old New Thing.

Math is hard. Let's go counting! The post Rotation revisited: Avoiding having to calculate the gcd when doing cycle decomposition appeared first on The Old New Thing.

Rotating in the minimum number of steps by performing cycle decomposition. The post Rotation revisited: Cycle decomposition in clang’s libcxx appeared first on The Old New Thing.

We've seen this before. The post Rotation revisited: A shocking discovery about gcc’s unidirectional rotation algorithm appeared first on The Old New Thing.

Moving in a straight line, in a different way. The post Rotation revisited: Another unidirectional algorithm appeared first on The Old New Thing.

Modern this and that. The post The placeholder name for the Windows 8 experience was “modern” appeared first on The Old New Thing.

A variation where we try only once. The post Sharing the result of a single Windows Runtime IAsyncOperation among multiple coroutines, part 3 appeared first on The Old New Thing.

Just let each person take turns trying. The post Sharing the result of a single Windows Runtime IAsyncOperation among multiple coroutines, part 2 appeared first on The Old New Thing.

Caching the result and knowing when the cache is valid. The post Sharing the result of a single Windows Runtime IAsyncOperation among multiple coroutines, part 1 appeared first on The Old New Thing.

A difference in philosophy. The post If C# and JavaScript lets me await a Windows Runtime asynchronous operation more than once, why not C++/WinRT? appeared first on The Old New Thing.

Putting them in a place that can access only if you call Start. The post A hypothetical redesign of <CODE>System.<WBR>Diagnostics.<WBR>Process</CODE> to avoid confusion over properties that are valid only when you are the one who called <CODE>Start</CODE> appeared first on The Old New Thing.

You need to pump messages when idle, but maybe you are never idle. The post Why do you say that a COM STA thread must pump messages if I see sample code creating STA threads and not pumping messages? appeared first on The Old New Thing.

Trick question: You can't. But maybe you can fake it. The post How do I use Win32 structures from the Windows Runtime? appeared first on The Old New Thing.

You need to arrange to get one from the other. The post The classic TreeView control lets me sort by name or by lParam, but why not both? appeared first on The Old New Thing.

The storage control blocks were destroyed. The post What is the history of the <CODE>ERROR_<WBR>ARENA_<WBR>TRASHED</CODE> error code? appeared first on The Old New Thing.

Reported incorrectly since the day it was written. The post Just shows that nobody cares about debugging the parity flag any more appeared first on The Old New Thing.

Maybe because it already exists? The post The case of the <CODE>Create­File­Mapping</CODE> that always reported <CODE>ERROR_<WBR>ALREADY_<WBR>EXISTS</CODE> appeared first on The Old New Thing.

Using data structures you already knew. The post A constant-space linear-time algorithm for deleting all but the 10 most recent files in a directory appeared first on The Old New Thing.

Keeping things moving. The post The case of the hang when the user changed keyboard layouts appeared first on The Old New Thing.

Compatibility, of course. The post Why do Windows client editions on 32-bit x86 systems artificially limit RAM to 4 GB? appeared first on The Old New Thing.

Putting the handles in a private container. The post Additional notes on controlling which handles are inherited by <CODE>Create­Process</CODE> appeared first on The Old New Thing.

You can track the file ID. The post Developing more confidence when tracking renames via <CODE>Read­Directory­ChangesW</CODE> appeared first on The Old New Thing.

Otherwise, it'll get mapped back down to the 8-bit code page. The post When you upgrade your resource strings to Unicode, don’t forget to specify the L prefix appeared first on The Old New Thing.

Static libraries don't stand a chance. The post Why not have changes in API behavior depend on the SDK you link against? appeared first on The Old New Thing.

I want to speak to your manager. The post A dispute over the <KBD>TAB</KBD> key highlights a mismatch between Microsoft and IBM organizational structures appeared first on The Old New Thing.

You don't. All files are binary at the file system level. The post How do I inform Windows that I’m writing a binary file? appeared first on The Old New Thing.

Recovering from death of the owner. The post Developing a cross-process reader/writer lock with limited readers, part 4: Abandonment appeared first on The Old New Thing.

Let the exclusive acquisition have a fair chance against shared acquisitions. The post Developing a cross-process reader/writer lock with limited readers, part 3: Fairness appeared first on The Old New Thing.