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NOTICE: I have written only 2 of the 12 tips so far, but I plan to post all 12 Powerful Tips eventually.
I provide you with 12 simple, yet powerful, JavaScript tips and detailed explanation of each. These are techniques that all JavaScript programmers can use now; you needn't be an advanced JavaScript developer to benefit from these tips. After you read all of the detailed explanations of how each technique works and when to use it, you will have become a more enlightened JavaScript developer, if you aren't already one.
Indeed, notable JavaScript masters and enlightened JavaScript developers have been using many of these techniques to write powerful, efficient JavaScript. And in a bit, you will, too.
Powerful JavaScript Idiomatic Expressions With && and ||
You see these idiomatic expressions in JavaScript frameworks and libraries. Let's start off with a couple of basic examples:
Example 1: Basic "short circuting" with || (Logical OR)
To set default values, instead of this:
function documentTitle(theTitle) if (!theTitle) { theTitle = "Untitled Document"; } }
Use this:
function documentTitle(theTitle) theTitle = theTitle || "Untitled Document"; }
— First, read the "Important Note" box below for a refresher on JavaScript's Falsy and Truthy values
— The || operator first evaluates the expression on the left, if it is truthy, it returns that value. If it is falsy, it evaluates and returns the value of the right operand (the expression on the right).
— If theTitle variable is falsy, the expression on the right will be returned and assigned to the variable. On the other hand, if theTitle is truthy, its value will be returned and assigned to the variable.JavaScript Falsy Values: null, false, 0 undefined, NaN, and "" (this last item is an empty string).
— Note that Infinity, which is a special number like NaN, is truthy; it is not falsy, while NaN is falsy.
JavaScript Truthy Values: Anything other than the falsy values.
Example 2: Basic short circuting with && (Logical AND)
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function isAdult(age) { if (age && age > 17) { return true; } else { return false; } }
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— The && operator first evaluates the expression on the left. If it is falsy, false is returned; it does not bother to evaluate the right operand.
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Example 3:
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Powerful Uses of Immediately Invoked Function Expressions
(How Immediately Invoked Function Expressions Work and When to Use Them)
IIFE (pronounced "Iffy") is an abbreviation for Immediately Invoked Function Expression, and the syntax looks like this:
(function () { // Do fun stuff } )()
It is an anonymous function expression that is immediately invoked, and it has some particularly important uses in JavaScript.
How Immediately Invoked Function Expressions Work?
- The pair of parenthesis surrounding the anonymous function turns the anonymous function into a function expression or variable expression. So instead of a simple anonymous function in the global scope, or wherever it was defined, we now have an unnamed function expression.
- It is as if we have this:
// Shown without the parentheses here: ? = function () {}; // And with the parentheses here: (? = function () {}); // An unknown variable assigned the value of a function, wrapped in a parentheses, which turns it into an unnamed function expression.
Similarly, we can even create a named, immediately invoked function expression:
(showName = function (name) {console.log(name || "No Name")}) (); // No Name showName ("Rich"); // Rich showName (); // No Name
— Note that you cannot use the var keyword inside the opening pair of parentheses (you will get a syntax error), but it is not necessary in this context to use var since any variable declared without the var keyword will be a global variable anyway.
— We were able to call this named function expression both immediately and later because it has a name.
— But we can't call the anonymous function expression later, since there is no way to refer to it. This is the reason it is only useful when it is immediately invoked.
- By placing the anonymous function in parentheses (a group context), the entire group is evaluated and the value returned. The returned value is actually the entire anonymous function itself, so all we have to do is add two parentheses after it to invoke it.
- Therefore, the last two parentheses tell the JS compiler to invoke (call) this anonymous function immediately, hence the name "Immediately Invoked Function Expression."
- Because JavaScript has function-level scope, all the variables declared in this anonymous function are local variables and therefore cannot be accessed outside the anonymous function.
- So we now have a powerful piece of anonymous code inside an unnamed function expression, and the code is meaningless unless we invoke the anonymous function, because nothing can access the code. It is the immediate invocation of the anonymous function that makes it powerful and useful.
- You can pass parameters to the anonymous function, just like you would any function, including variables. The anonymous function's scope extend into any outer function that contains it and to the global scope. Read my article, JavaScript Variable Scope and Hoisting Explained, for more.
When To Use Immediately Invoked Function Expressions?
- To Avoid Polluting the Global Scope
The most popular use of the IIFE is to avoid declaring variables in the global scope. Many JavaScript libraries use this technique, and of course many JS pros, too. It is especially popular amongst jQuery plugin developers. And you should use an IIFE in the top-level (main.js) of your applications.
In this first example, I am using it in the global scope to keep all my variables local to the anonymous function, and thus outside the global scope where variables can shadow (block) other already-defined variables with the same name (probably from an included library or framework). All of my code for the application will start in the IIFE:
// All the code is wrapped in the IIFE (function () { var firstName = "Richard"; function init () { doStuff (firstName); // code to start the application } function doStuff () { // Do stuff here } function doMoreStuff () { // Do more stuff here } // Start the application init (); }) ();
— Note that you can also pass jQuery or any other object or variable via the parameter (the last 2 parentheses).
- Use With the Conditional Operator
The use of the IIFE in this manner is not as well known, but it quite powerful since you can execute complex logic without having to setup and call a named function:
— Note the two anonymous functions in the conditional statement
— Why would you do this? Because it is powerful and badass.
— I purposely added enough space between each section so the code can read better.
var unnamedDocs = [], namedDocs = ["a_bridge_runover", "great_dreamers"]; function createDoc(documentTitle) { var documentName = documentTitle ? (function (theName) { var newNamedDoc = theName.toLocaleLowerCase().replace(" ", "_"); namedDocs.push(newNamedDoc); return newNamedDoc; })(documentTitle) : (function () { var newUnnamedDoc = "untitled_" + Number(namedDocs.length + 1); unnamedDocs.push(newUnnamedDoc); return newUnnamedDoc; })(); return documentName; } createDoc("Over The Rainbow"); // over_the rainbow createDoc(); // untitled_4
- Use it in Closures to Prevent Fold Over
I discussed this particular use of the IIFE before in my post, Understand JavaScript Closures With Ease. So I will copy the section of that code and reuse it here.
To prevent close over in for loops, we can use an Immediately Invoked Function Expression to prevent a common bug when closures are used with for loops:
To fix side effects (bug) in closures, you can use an IIFE, such as if this example:
function celebrityIDCreator (theCelebrities) { var i; var uniqueID = 100; for (i = 0; i < theCelebrities.length; i++) { theCelebrities[i]["id"] = function (j) { // the j parametric variable is the i passed in on invocation of this IIFE return function () { return uniqueID + j; // each iteration of the for loop passes the current value of i into this IIFE and it saves the correct value to the array } } (i); // immediately invoke the function passing the i variable as a parameter } return theCelebrities; } var actionCelebs = [{name:"Stallone", id:0}, {name:"Cruise", id:0}, {name:"Willis", id:0}]; var createIdForActionCelebs = celebrityIDCreator (actionCelebs); var stalloneID = createIdForActionCelebs [0]; console.log(stalloneID.id()); // 100 var cruiseID = createIdForActionCelebs [1]; console.log(cruiseID.id()); // 101
- The pair of parenthesis surrounding the anonymous function turns the anonymous function into a function expression or variable expression. So instead of a simple anonymous function in the global scope, or wherever it was defined, we now have an unnamed function expression.
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President Barack Obama nominated three people to serve on the National Labor Relations Board, a move that could make that agency functional again or just escalate the ongoing battle between unions and business.
The president renominated Mark Pearce, a Democrat who has chaired the NLRB since August 2011. Obama also nominated two Republicans, Harry Johnson III, a partner at Arent Fox law firm, and Philip Miscimmara, a partner at Morgan Lewis & Bockius.
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Never had a start/stop button before this machine. Trying to get used to it. I have a problem with pin removal. Just wondering if there are any hints I should know. Does anyone use this almost exclusively or is it better suited to certain tasks. Obviously, it wouldn't be good for free motion or would it? Should I persevere with it, and I will love it or should I leave it?
I have had a Start/stop button on my last 2 machines. I consider it almost an essential now. I use it for most of my sewing but as you pointed out freemotion quilting doesn't work very well that way. I also use the foot pedal if I am doing a detailed task or with very thich fabric sometimes.
I think you will love it with practice. I sure do.
I am a bad person. I leave pins in and sew over them all the time. All the time.
I almost never have an altercation between a pin and the machine's needle. But I have had direct contact where the needle continues on and I've had direct contact where the needle breaks. Irritating! But not nearly so irritating as going at a snail's pace all the time to remove pins. And, regardless of how dramatic the contact might be, I've still only ever had to replace a needle. Not get my machines serviced. That's about 10 years for my Husqvarna, 2 years for my Bernina and 30+ years for the Singer I had before my Husqvarna).
I wonder if the difference is how I pin? I pin at a right angle with the raw edge. I put the needle from the center of the work toward where the seam will go and I try to stay just beyond the seam allowance (1/4" for quilting 5/8" for garments). But there are critical points where the pin is right through a Y seam or the convergence of pinwheels too.
More on topic, I have used the Start/Stop feature for FMQ. It left knots on the bottom where my hands didn't keep up on turns or on securing the final stitches. But as a newbie and total spazoid at FMQ it liberated me from worrying about how even a speed I maintained with my foot pedal. Just thinking about what my hands were doing made it possible for me to FMQ at all. ...tho I am working at proper technique.
Even if I have to take a machine in
So please forgive those of us who have never used a stop/start button - this will probably sound like a couple dumb questions!
Do you really have to press a button to stop the stitching? Is that faster and easier than a foot control? I just can't imagine giving up my foot pedal!
Dumb questions?
No dumb question.... yes you push a button to stop the stitching. I have it down to where I know how fast I want to run my machine (also can be set on my maching) and with using this method you become almost automatic on what needs to be done, like having your foot in your hand.
That's exactly what I wanted to know. If it gets easier and I can tell after a week it already is. I've had knee operated machines and pedal ones. Now I have a knee operated presser foot that I feel in love with on the first day. But sometimes I'm pushing the imaginary pedal or running it by the knee lift. Confused but working on it.


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Why did my Meyer Lemon lose all its fruit?
Can anyone give me some ideas about what went wrong? I have a small Meyer grown from seed that produced lots of delicious fruit for the first time last year, nearly a dozen big juicy lemons. It's about six years old, three feet tall and in a large pot in partial sun, same as last year. This year I gave it some foliar feed as well as the same slow-release fertilizer as last year and it bloomed beautifully and was covered in fruit. It even repeat-bloomed for me.
It looks great, but a couple of weeks ago all the fruit went yellow and fell off, even those that were marble-sized. Anyone know what may have happened? We did not have any freak cold snaps; if anything the weather is more hot and humid than our typical spring, with less rain but I water as before. Any ideas?
this year you added extra fertilizer, could be over fertilization which stressed the tree and cause it to drop all the fruit.
have you noticed any bugs, or tiny insects, etc?
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"Certain insects that feed on citrus trees can cause fruit drop. For example, leaf-footed bugs inject an enzyme into citrus fruit causing a tree to lose most of its fruit in a very short period of time, according to a Texas A&M University System Agricultural Program report.
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Thanks for the insights. The foliar feed I've been using is Spray-n-Grow, and it seems to be doing great for the foliage and certainly seemed to have boosted blooms on it.
I've seen no insect damage at all but it could have been too much fertilizer combined with early heat stress as this has been a record-breaking hot Spring.


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The exam was conducted at 3,773 centres across the state. "This year, the format of the question paper was different. The paper had only objective type questions. A total of almost 3.14 lakh students passed the exam. The pass percentage of Pune was 34.16 per cent," added Mane.
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Attacks in 2 Syrian cities kill at least 54
DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — A massive double car bombing and a mortar strike targeted pro-government neighborhoods Tuesday in two of Syria's largest cities, killing at least 54 people a day after President Bashar Assad declared his candidacy for re-election.
The attacks in Damascus and Homs heightened fears of an escalation ahead of the contentious June 3 vote and showed that despite a series of battlefield setbacks, the rebels remain capable of hitting the government and its core of support.
Now in its fourth year, Syria's conflict has left the country a chaotic tableau of localized battles whose front lines shift back and forth, but have little impact on the wider war. The map of control has remained largely unaltered: Assad holds sway in Damascus and the corridor that runs up to the Mediterranean coast, while the rebels control most of the north along the Turkish border and the Kurdish minority controls a corner in the northeast.
But the rebels are feeling squeezed in the capital, Damascus, and in Homs, Syria's third-largest city and an opposition stronghold since the beginning of the uprising against Assad. The government has taken a two-pronged approach to crushing resistance in both areas: suffocating blockades that eventually force cease-fires and a fierce offensive along the Lebanese frontier that has severely restricted the flow of weapons and fighters along cross-border supply lines.
In Homs, the rebels are growing desperate as government forces ramp up their assault on the last remaining pockets of opposition in the Old City. Among the hundreds of fighters still holding out in besieged districts, some talk of surrender while others have lashed out at the government with suicide car bombings in pro-Assad districts.
Tuesday's double car bombing struck near the pro-government Zahra and Abbasiyeh neighborhoods — an area predominantly inhabited by Christians and members of Assad's Alawite sect. At least 40 people were killed and another 116 wounded, the official SANA news agency said. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights also put the death toll at 40 and said more than 80 were wounded.
The explosions struck 10 minutes apart and 150 yards (meters) from each other on a busy residential and commercial thoroughfare.
"When I arrived at the scene, fire and smoke and medics were still carrying away the wounded," said one resident, who declined to give his name for fear of reprisals. He said homes and shops were heavily damaged in the blast, which also set several cars on fire.
Homs governor Tala Barazi said such crimes "target security, stability and ongoing national reconciliation in the province."
In Damascus, several mortar shells slammed into a school in the predominantly Shiite neighborhood of Shaghour, killing 14 people and wounding 86, the state news agency reported. The Observatory said 19 people were killed, including 14 children.
It was one of the deadliest mortar attacks on central Damascus since the conflict began in March 2011.
In footage of the aftermath broadcast on Syria's pro-government Al-Ikhbariya TV, blood and glass littered the floor. Shoes were scattered about, along with a cap, a religious book and other belongings. One body was laid out on the ground and covered with a blanket. Two bloodied feet protruded from under the cloth.


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President Tabaré Vázquez signed a bill earlier this month permitting couples in any legal union, including same-sex couples in civil unions, to adopt children, but the law continues to cause confusion according to local reports. Lawyers and judges have criticized the law for lacking specifics and granting the Uruguayan Institute for the Children and Adolescents (INAU) too much power in the new adoption procedures.
Uruguay's Senate unanimously approved the adoption law on September 9, 2009, as English-language media highlighted the move as a triumph for gay rights in Latin America. The country has passed a number of progressive laws in the past year, including legislation allowing same-sex couples to enter into civil unions. On October 12, 2009, the Senate also approved a bill that legalizes sex changes for people older than age 18 and permits citizens to change their genders on official identification documents.
There are, however, limits to Uruguay's progressive legislation. Referring to the new adoption law, Pérez Manrique, president of the Second Session of the Court of Appeal of Family Affairs said, "On the whole, there is a conservative attitude among the legislators in not finding the final solution to all of this: that is approving same-sex marriage."
After the Civil Registry Office warned that allowing people to officially change their names and genders would enable same-sex couples to marry, the Senate included an amendment in the sex-change law that strictly prohibits same-sex marriage. In November 2008, President Vázquez went against his political party in vetoing a law that would have decriminalized abortion.
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During the discussion of
how real-mode Windows handled return addresses into discarded segments,
Gabe wondered,
"What happens when
somebody does a longjmp into a discardable segment?"
I'm going to assume that everybody knows how longjmp
traditionally works so I can go straight to the analysis.
The reason longjmp is tricky is that it has to
jump to a return address that isn't on the stack.
(The return address was captured in the jmp_buf.)
If that segment got relocated or discarded, then the jump target
is no longer valid.
It would have gotten patched to a return thunk if it were on the
stack, but since it's in a jmp_buf,
the stack walker didn't see it, and the result is a return address
that is no longer valid.
(There is a similar problem if the data segment or stack segment
got relocated.
Exercise: Why don't you have to worry about the data segment
or stack segment being discarded?)
Recall that when a segment got discarded, all return addresses
which pointed into that segment were replaced with
return thunks.
I didn't mention it explicitly in the original discussion,
but there are three properties of return thunks
which will help us here:
The first property
(idempotence of the return thunk) is no accident.
It's required behavior in order for return thunks to work
at all!
After all, if the segment was loaded (say by a
direct call or some other return thunk),
then the return thunk needs to say,
"Well, I guess that was easy," and simply skip
the "load the target segment" step.
(It still needs to do the rest of the work,
of course.)
The second property (abandonment) is also no
An application might decide to exit without returning
all the way to WinMain
(the equivalent of calling ExitProcess
instead of returning from WinMain).
This would abandon all the stack frames between
the exit point and the WinMain.
The third property (reuse) is a happy accident.
(Well, it was probably designed in for the purpose
we're about to put it to right here.)
Okay, now let's look at the jump buffer again.
If you've been following along so far,
you may have guessed the solution:
Pre-patch the return address as if it had already been
If it turns out that the segment was discarded,
then the return thunk will restore it.
If the segment is present (either because it was
never discarded, or because it was discarded and
reloaded, possibly at a new address),
the return thunk will figure out where the code
is and jump to it.
Actually, since the state is being recorded in a
jmp_buf, the tight space constraints
of stack patching do not apply here.
If it turns out you need 20 bytes of memory to
record this information, then go ahead and
make your jmp_buf 20 bytes.
You don't have to try to make it all fit
inside an existing stack frame.
The jmp_buf therefore
doesn't have to try to play the crazy
air-squeezing games that stack patching did.
It can record the return thunk,
the handles to the data and stack segments,
and the return IP without any encoding at all.
And in fact, the longjmp
function doesn't need to invoke the return
thunk directly.
It can just extract the segment number
after the initial INT 3Fh and
pass that directly to the segment loader.
INT 3Fh
(There is a little hitch if the address
being returned to is fixed; in that case,
there is no return thunk.
But that just makes things easier:
The lack of a return thunk means that the
return address cannot be relocated,
so there is no patching needed at all!)
This magic with return thunks and segment
reloading is internal to the operating system,
so the core setjmp and
longjmp functionality
was provided by the kernel rather than the
C runtime library in a pair of functions
called Catch and Throw.
The C runtime's setjmp
and longjmp functions
merely forwarded to the kernel versions.
Today is New Year's Eve,
another opportunity for to mark that an approximately-integral number
of revolutions of the earth have occurred since some point in time
that wasn't even calculated correctly in the first place.
(We retain it for backward compatibility.)
December 31, 1999 was a particularly anxious day in the technology sector.
Microsoft's Director of Y2K Readiness
and vice president of Product Support Services
described some of the steps that were being taken
to prepare for any timekeeping-related issues that would arise
as the calendar ticked over to 2000.
We've analyzed phone capacity,
IT systems backup for both data and power,
and additional lab environments for enhanced product support capabilities.
We have redundant power systems, including back-up generators,
at key locations in the unlikely event we lose power.
I got to see one of those key locations,
or at least I saw it from a distance.
Parked outside Building 26,
the home of the Core Operating Systems Division,
were semi-trailers
filled with computers and back-up generators,
ready to spring into action in case of
a disaster of biblical proportions
and somebody needed to develop a hotfix to Windows on the spot
as civilized society collapsed into anarchy all around.
(Personally, I would think that if civilization were collapsing,
you would have more important things to worry about than patching
an operating system.)
At least to make things more pleasant for the people who had
to remain at work that night,
Microsoft threw
"a New Year's Eve party with a disc jockey,
dinner, and a champagne toast at midnight.
Our employees can bring their spouses and children,
and we'll even host a separate children's party."
Actually, it sounds like they had more fun than I did that night.
I think I stayed at home and watched television.
It turns out that civilization did not collapse into anarchy.
There were minor glitches, but
nothing serious.
"No problems were seen in Angola, Uganda and Kenya,
where the telephone system was said to be functioning
as erratically as usual.
Italy, one of the worst-prepared countries in the West,
also appeared to cross into the new century without any major trouble."
Nice to know you can be snarky in a newspaper article.
(Nitpicker's corner: January 1, 2000 was not the first day of a new
Depending on how you look at it,
Y2K was either an overhyped event created to generate revenue
for the technology industry,
or was a demonstration of how people can solve a major problem if they
just worked hard and coöperated.
Reality is probably a mix of the two.
Happy new year, everybody.
See you on the other side.
On the Windows 8 Start screen,
you can pan left and right,
and if you are using touch, you can whip the entire screen left and right
and send all your tiles flying past.
One of the effects we saw when you panned quickly around the Start screen
was something we called
disco lights,
but which formally goes by the much more mundane name
stroboscopic effect.
When you pan quickly through the Start screen,
the items are moving so fast that the human eye can't register any of the
fine details.
It's just a bunch of colored boxes whizzing past.
But video displays are not continuous.
They refresh at a particular frequency,
so it's as if there's a strobe light flashing on your Start screen.
Therefore, what you perceive is not a bunch of boxes whizzing past,
but rather a bunch of boxes moving around in strange patterns.
When the panning hits a magic speed,
each frame's tiles happen to land in nearly the same spot
as the previous frame's tiles,
but since they are different tiles, the colors are all different.
At that critical speed,
you don't get the effect that the tiles are whizzing past.
Instead, it looks like they are blinking different colors,
like disco lights.
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I created two versions of the simulation,
a more realistic one
and one with an exaggerated disco effect to show you what
inspired the name.
The fix was to turn off the colors and just show plain tiles.
That way you still felt the motion but you didn't get the disco effect.
(It also mean that the Start page was less likely to
induce photosensitive epilepsy.)
This is an interesting example of the sorts of design problems that
show up when you start implementing a feature.
In the original design for the Start screen,
it seemed obvious that the Start screen should show what the user
is scrolling through at full speed.
But when you actually did it, the hidden stroboscopic effect
showed that doing a better job actually looks worse.
Tomorrow marks the 36th anniversary of the disco dance movie
Saturday Night Fever.
Sorry we couldn't keep the lights on for you.
Some people suggest that one thing Microsoft Research could do
with that time machine they're working on
is to go back in time and
change the name of the Program Files directory to simply Programs.
No, it really should be Program Files.
Program Files are not the same as Programs.
Programs are things like Calc, Notepad, Excel, Photoshop.
They are things you run.
Program Files are things like
They are files that make programs run.
If the directory were named Programs,
then people who wanted to run a program would start
digging into that directory
and seeing a page full of weird DLL names
and wonder "What the heck kind of programs are these?"
And eventually they might figure out that if they want to run
PowerPoint, they need to double-click on the icon named
"Computers are so hard to use."
If you want to find your programs,
go to the Start menu.
The Program Files directory is like the pantry of a restaurant.
You aren't expected to go in there and nibble on things that look
You're expected to order things from the menu.
When you wrote code for 16-bit Windows,
one of the things you spent time doing
as part of performance tuning was
deciding which functions should be grouped together in which segments.
Code in 16-bit Windows executed out of code segments,
each of which could be up to
in size.
When a code segment was loaded from disk,
the entire segment was loaded,
and when it was discarded, the entire segment was discarded.
This meant that you could affect your application's performance
in significant ways by choosing which functions go in which segments.
For example, it was to your advantage to keep functions that
are called at the same time in the same segment,
so that they would be loaded as a unit (saving I/O time).
If you chose poorly and put unrelated functions in the same segment,
then calling any function in the segment caused all the functions
to be loaded,
which was a waste of I/O since you loaded a bunch of functions
you didn't need.
Even if the functions were called at the same time,
you also had to keep an eye on their popularity.
If you have one function that is called frequently
and another that is called infrequently (but always
preceded by a call to the first function),
the less popular function will ride the coattails of his
roommate and remain loaded in memory.
This creates unnecessary memory pressure that could cause
a function which is moderately-frequently-called
to be discarded to make room.
Creating lots of small segments allowed your memory usage
to be managed with finer granularity,
but it also costs you in general overhead as well as I/O,
because each segment load was a new round trip to the disk.
You therefore had to balance memory cost against I/O cost.
The process of optimizing the grouping of functions
into segments
was known as segment tuning.
During the development of Windows 3.0,
it was customary to have regular meetings with Bill Gates
to brief him on the status of the project.
At one of the reviews,
the topic was performance, and Bill complained,
"You guys are spending all this time with your segment
tuning tinkering.
I could teach a twelve-year-old to segment-tune.
I want to see some real optimization,
not this segment tuning nonsense.
I wrote
on an airplane, for heaven's sake."
(I can't believe I had to write this:
This is a dramatization, not a courtroom transcript.)
This "I wrote FAT on an airplane"
line was apparently one Bill used
when he wanted to complain that what other people was doing
wasn't Real Programming.
But this time, the development manager decided she'd had enough.
"Fine, Bill.
We'll set you up with a machine fully enlisted in the Windows
source code,
and you can help us out with some of your programming magic,
why don't you."
This shut him up.
Some time ago, I briefly ran down
how 16-bit Windows managed memory for resources.
But there's a detail that I neglected to mention:
As we saw,
a resource handle HRSRC was really
a pointer to the resource directory entry of the resource
from the corresponding module.
This could be done with a 16-bit pointer because the segment
portion of the pointer could be inferred from the module
the resource belonged to.
In fact, since modules could be relocated
in memory at run time due to compaction,
you had better not try to remember the segment portion of the
pointer since it could change!
The FindResource function located the
resource directory entry.
The LoadResource function allocated memory
for the resource and loaded it from disk.
The LockResource function locked the memory
so you could access it.
If two people tried to load the same resource,
the memory for the resource was re-used so there was only
one copy in memory,
and if both people free the resource,
the resource is cached in case somebody asks for it again soon.
Now things get interesting:
When does the resource get removed from the cache?
What actually controls the lifetime of the resource?
Answer: The resource lifetime is tied to the module it came from.
When the module is unloaded, all its resources are
unloaded along with it.
(Note that even if a resource is cached,
its contents can get
discarded if it is tagged as DISCARDABLE.)
In Win32, modules are directly mapped into memory,
and along with it, the resources.
Therefore, accessing the resources of a module
is a simple matter of figuring out where they got mapped
(FindResource and friends will tell you),
and then reading the memory directly.
So despite the radical change to resources work,
the basic rules haven't changed:
The resources are good as long as the module is still in memory.
But there are resources and then there are resources.
So far, we've been talking about resources in the sense of
FindResource, which I will call
module resources for lack of a better term.
But people often work with objects like icons and bitmaps
which are not literally
resources but which are derived from resources.
Next time,
we'll look at the relationship between module resources
and resource-derived objects in 16-bit Windows.
The feature now known as Aero Peek wasn't born that way.
It went through several iterations before becoming what eventually
shipped in Windows 7.
At the MIX09 conference,
Stephan Hoefnagels
showed some of the precursors to Aero Peek.
Here are the highlights, and the corresponding time codes
if you want to jump straight to the demos.
Thumbnails in the taskbar
(time code 30:20)
How it worked:
Instead of labeled icons, the taskbar showed miniatures
of the windows themselves.
How it got its name:
Um, it was just named after what it was.
Why it failed:
When shrunk to taskbar size,
most windows looked the same:
white with unreadably tiny text.
Aladdin (time code 42:34)
How it worked:
To bring another window into view temporarily,
shake the mouse over that window.
The longer you shake, the longer the window stays visible.
How it got its name:
From the folk tale in which the hero
summons a genie by rubbing a magic lamp.
Why it failed:
It was too tiresome having to keep
shaking the mouse while you read a document.
Bat Signal (time code 31:10)
How it worked:
When you hover over a taskbar button,
the screen darkens, and a spotlight shines on the
corresponding window.
How it got its name:
After the distress signal used in the Batman series.
Why it failed:
People liked the way it helped them find their windows,
but it was too easy to trigger accidentally.
Also, people tried to "ride the light beam", which inadvertently
canceled the bat signal.
Squeegee (time code 33:10)
How it worked:
When you hover over the pop-up thumbnail,
the corresponding window comes to the front, and
all the other windows turn into glass sheets.
How it got its name:
It makes your screen look like somebody took a squeegee
to all the other windows and washed all the pixels off them,
leaving clean sheets of glass.
Squeegee won the day,
and it was given the official name Aero Peek.
Bonus chatter:
Although the
Wikipedia entry for Batman clocks in at
4.3 Ginsburgs,
the entry for
Bat-Signal is only 857 milliGinsburgs.
Hey, Wikipedians, you're falling down on the job!
In the early 1980's,
Microsoft moved its headquarters from downtown Bellevue
to Northup Way in Bellevue,
a building which later served as a training center
(Microsoft University)
and is now the North Campus of Bellevue Community College.
This is the building in which the infamous
Bill Gates Tiger Beat-style photo
was taken,
and the one I told a story about
some years ago.
At the time, the company was still very small,
and the task of managing the relocation was shared among all the employees.
After everybody settled in at the new building,
it became apparent that the mail volume was barely a trickle.
In particular,
checks were not coming in,
which is kind of an important part of running a business.
In the excitement of moving,
nobody remembered to file a Change of Address form with the Post Office.
A visit to the old Bellevue offices
revealed a huge mound of mail at the old location.
A Change of Address was quickly filed,
but in the meantime,
Steve Ballmer became the company mailman.
Every day, he would drive to the old offices,
pick up the mail that had accumulated,
dump it in the trunk of his car,
then deliver it to the Northup offices.
(Today's story is in recognition of the 238th birthday of the
United States Postal Service.)
The magic incantation for updating the last-modified date on a
What strange syntax!
What's with the plus sign and the commas, anyway?
The formal syntax is the much more straightforward
This means to start with the file A,
then append the files B, C, and D,
treating them all as binary files.
If you omit the
B+C+D part,
then you get
This means
"Start with A, then append nothing."
The side effect is that the last-write time gets updated,
because the command processor opens A for append,
writes nothing,
then closes the handle.
That syntax has worked since at least MS-DOS 2.1
(the earliest version I still have a virtual machine for).
I dont know where the two-comma version came from,
but it most likely exploited a parsing glitch in
and somehow this variant gained traction and
became the version everybody used
(even though the other version is two keystrokes shorter).
As a result, this weird syntax has become grandfathered
as a special-case in the CMD.EXE parser.
Here's some actual code from the part of
CMD.EXE which parses the arguments to the
COPY command:
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Corporate policies for acquiring hardware
typically require going through a bunch
of procedures, like issuing purchase orders, getting appropriate
approvals, all the usual red tape with the purpose of preventing fraud.
But the Windows 95 project was so notoriously behind schedule
that upper management removed some procedural roadblocks.
To expedite the acquisition of hardware for members of the development
team, the administrative assistant for the core development team
was issued a corporate credit card with a credit limit of $500,000.
(You can
what $500,000 in 1994 dollars
corresponds to in today's money.)
I assume the theory here was "buy first, fill out paperwork later."
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Roy Halladay left a lot of money on the table
Dec 18, 2009, 8:00 AM EDT
Yesterday I noted that Roy Halladay's 9 year-old son is the one who allegedly pulled the trigger on the deal sending him to Philly and agreeing to the contract extension. According to Baseball Prospectus' Joe Sheehan, little Braden Halladay really made a bad deal:
The story here is that one of the best players in baseball took
somewhere between 35-50 percent of his market value to facilitate a
trade, leaving somewhere between $60 and $100 million in guaranteed
money on the table. This is a staggering upset, one for which there is
virtually no comparison in baseball history.
I'm glad I read this. I was about ready to hire Braden to negotiate my extension with NBC.
- Mark - Dec 18, 2009 at 8:40 AM
Sometimes its not about the money! At this point what difference does 20 mil a year mean from 30 mil a year. Either way after one year of the contract he is set for life and so are his kids. Not to mention all he has made in Toronto and will make on the rest of his contract. If I was him I would have said sign me for 10 mil keep Lee and lets make this a Dynasty!
- Jonny5 - Dec 18, 2009 at 8:44 AM
As I said before. Halladay wanted to be a Phillie. This is the battle between Good and Evil. The Force is strong with this one, He won't bend to join the "dark side" (Enter star wars theme track). It is more important for him to be on the good guys team ,With Luke (Utley) and Yoda (Charlie Manuel)And Obi won Konobe (Moyer). He wants to win, but win against the dark forces lurking in NY. Look, he figured he doesn't need to pad his bank account with all those extra Millions, he needs to be in a ball club who is known for having a great group of guys who aren't a bunch of Primadonnas. There obviously was only one team he wanted to be on. I think he did a favor to both teams with this trade,the prospects he drew for Toronto was his way of saying thanks. All around good guy is all he is.
- Eat a Feesh - Dec 18, 2009 at 8:48 AM
Here with the early a.m. Gator Report: At least he didn't defect to the Borg. In fact, he seems to have positioned himself to fight the Borg for the next couple of World Series.
- Stultus Magnus - Dec 18, 2009 at 8:50 AM
I think that Halladay realized a huge extension would be unlikely with the prospects the Jays were looking for. It just shows one how badly he wanted out of Toronto, he didn't want to wait around another year. It also is a statement, I think, to his confidence. He believes he won't be on his last legs 4-5 years from now and could still command a decent contract.
- APBA Guy - Dec 18, 2009 at 11:25 AM
I'm not sure where in Florida Roy lives, I wonder if it's in Jonny Damon's (and Tiger's) neighborhood?
I bring this up because I think in 2014, when Roy's $ 20M option year is over and he is looking at his last major league deal, he could have a ring or two to show for his time in Philly, and still may have 2-3 years left to contribute to an MLB team somewhere.
Jonny already has 2 rings of course. But he hasn't learned what Roy's 9 year old seems to understand. Once you have enough money to be financially secure, you have the freedom to choose happiness. Jonny chose greed instead.
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