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Raymond is writing a book after all

Thanks to Lilia Efimova, I saw Raymond Chen's news of a book he's publishing in Jan, 2007: 'Old New Thing, The: Practical Development Throughout the Evolution of Windows'. You can pre-order it here.

Raymond works in the Windows team as a problem-solving ninja master - the hardest issues / bugs are assigned to him to go and figure out. He's seriously smart, seriously funny and a seriously nice guy too.

The book is apparently based on his blog writings, so if that's anything to go by, it'll be very entertaining and informative (er, that is if you're interested in operating systems, and why things are the way they are in Windows). Remember this classic?

"Help text is not the place to put logic puzzles."

Nice one Raymond!