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• Balloon Timeout and Notification Duration

  Today I was reading a new post on one of my favorite blogs, The Old New Thing by longtime Microsoft developer Raymond Chen. I got to know Raymond in the waning days of 1994 when we were working on "Chicago", the codename for what would become Windows... Posted May 20 2011, 02:49 PM by ChuckOp with | with 5 comment(s) Filed under: Microsoft, Accessibility, UI, Programming

• Microsoft Windows Internals Review

  I’ve always been a bit twiddler – whether it’s doing machine code on an 8-bit RCA COSMAC microprocessor or writing 16-bit drivers for Windows 3.1 or doing Windows Server 2003 storage related development, I’ve never shied away from getting into the meat... Posted Apr 06 2005, 09:10 AM by ChuckOp with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: Microsoft, Programming, Hardware

• Chuck installs Linux while watching pigs fly

  I never thought I'd be doing this. As of 9:10am, Tuesday March 2, 2004, I have just started the installation of Linux on my IBM ThinkPad X20 laptop. Egads! FYI, for those who don't know me - I'm pretty much a dyed-in-the-wool Windows guy. Back in early... Posted Mar 02 2004, 10:57 AM by ChuckOp with | with 4 comment(s) Filed under: Microsoft, Programming

• Programming Directory Services with Microsoft .NET and XML

  As many of you know, I wrote a popular developers book on Active Directory for Microsoft Press titled Microsoft Windows 2000 Active Directory Programming . When it was published in April 2001, I pleaded with Microsoft Press to not put “Windows 2000”... Posted Feb 03 2004, 12:55 PM by ChuckOp with | with 5 comment(s) Filed under: Microsoft, Programming, Personal, Directory Services

• Learning Perl

  I'm finally learning the Perl language. Being a Microsoft guy for so long, I really stuck with C/C++/C#, VB, VB.NET and VBScript. I even wrote client-side scripting in JScript and not JavaScript. :-) This will be my second new language in the past four... Posted Jan 23 2004, 02:24 PM by ChuckOp with | with no comments Filed under: Microsoft, Programming