Books and other writings by Charles Petzold
Quelle: Charles Petzold
- Random Globules This Time
- Random Rectangles in Silverlight (using WriteableBitmap)
- Book Royalties, Advances, and "Retainers"
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Random Globules This Time
After I posted a blog entry on writing a random-rectangle program for Silverlight, I added a comment with links to Win16 and Win32 random-rectangle programs. It's really amazing to see how fast those old programs run on modern machines! ... more ...
Random Rectangles in Silverlight (using WriteableBitmap)
I remember going to COMDEX in Las Vegas sometime in the early 90s when Microsoft Windows had just reached some kind of tipping point (at least among manufacturers if not users) and the floor of the Convention Center was ablaze with Windows machines, most of them running random-rectangle programs. ... more ...
Book Royalties, Advances, and "Retainers"
Like many authors, I had to be briefly hospitalized upon learning that Sarah Palin was paid a $1.25 million advance for her memoir "Going Rogue." But what really puzzled me was the description in the press of this amount as a "retainer." ... more ...
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