Raymond Chen is a developer on the Windows Shell team at Microsoft. Since joining Microsoft in 1992, Chen has worked on OS/2, Windows 95, DirectX, and later versions of Windows. Outside of Microsoft, he is known for his articles on Windows programming. He is a popular speaker at Microsoft PDCs and other conferences. He is also known for his dry humor and his custom of wearing suits at work.
Chen's blog, primarily aimed at software developers, foc...
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Raymond Chen is a developer on the Windows Shell team at Microsoft. Since joining Microsoft in 1992, Chen has worked on OS/2, Windows 95, DirectX, and later versions of Windows. Outside of Microsoft, he is known for his articles on Windows programming. He is a popular speaker at Microsoft PDCs and other conferences. He is also known for his dry humor and his custom of wearing suits at work.
Chen's blog, primarily aimed at software developers, focuses on the history of Windows programming and his own experience in ensuring its backwards compatibility. He is noted for his Psychic Debugging articles, as well as two useful types of thought experiments in software design: "Imagine if this were possible" and "What if two programs did this?".
Chen also authors the Windows Confidential column for Microsoft's TechNet magazine, which explores similar subject matter.
In 2005 he contributed an essay "Why Not Just Block the Apps That Rely on Undocumented Behavior?", adapted from his blog to Joel...
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