Programming
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Windows 1.0 and the Applications of Tomorrow
is a mini-keynote (and exercise in retro-computing)
delivered at DevConnections on November 7, 2005.
Included is a full explanation of all the "magic tricks" involved in the presentation.
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Does Visual Studio Rot the Mind?
Ruminations on the psychology and aesthetics of coding,
a talk delivered at the NYC .NET Developer’s Group, October 20, 2005.
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How Far from True North are the Avenues of Manhattan?
A long-awaited answer to this pressing question determined with
a little trigonometry and the Google Maps API.
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Programmed Solutions to "Enigma" Problems from New Scientist Magazine.
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Get a sneak peak at "Avalon", the client programming interface
for the next major release of Windows ("Longhorn"),
in Charles Petzold's article
Code Name Avalon: Create Real Apps Using New Code and Markup Model
from the January 2004 issue MSDN magazine.
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Windows utilities I wrote for PC Magazine
are no longer free but may illustrate useful programming techniques.
Tablet PC
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Power to the Pen: The Pen is Mightier with GDI+ and the Tablet PC Real-Time Stylus
was published in the December 2005 issue of
MSDN Magazine.
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In Search of the Real-Time Drop Shadow (March 2005)
explores different ways of programmatically applying drop shadow to text drawn on the Tablet PC.
The programs were originally prepared for a talk on February 9, 2005 at the
Windows Anywhere Conference.
Photos from that talk are
here and
here.
History of Science
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Modern-day creationists have claimed Victorian physicist James Clerk Maxwell
as one of their own. In
Maxwell, Molecules, and Evolution (February 2005),
Charles Petzold analyzes the evidence and discovers that Maxwell's
attitude toward evolution was more nuanced than people assume.
History of Computing
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Favorite books on the history of computing
originally prepared for the Barnes & Noble web site in April 2000.
Interviews
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Long interview on the Internet audio talk show
.NET Rocks!
on August 23, 2004.
There's also a
transcript.
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Amazon.com Interview from October 1999.
Recipes
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Join us for pizza with
Charles & Deirdre's Sunday Evening Low-Fat Vegetarian Sausage Pizza
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It's an old family recipe:
Spice Crumb Cake
that's too good for just breakfast.
© Charles Petzold, 2005
cp@charlespetzold.com
This page last updated November 2005