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2007-02-04Raymond Chen: What Feature Did You Remove Today?Raymond Chen’s second book-promotion interview is available. He hasn’t arranged to make an author book-signing appearance yet, but the topic comes up in this podcast. {tags: orcmid Raymond Chen Windows software development} Raymond is a great advocate for all of the reasons that compatibility is maintained between versions of Microsoft Windows. His stance is so well-articulated that Joel Spolsky used Raymond as an archetype for two kinds of Microsoft Developers: the Raymond Chen Camp (representing backward-compatibility religion) and the MSDN Magazine Camp (representing the out with the old, in with the new sprituality of the day). You might surmise where my allegiances are. I mention this because the interview is by friends of MSDN and Raymond is not quite that enamored of being the poster child for the backward-compatibility camp. So, naturally, the topic comes up in this interview; for a moment it was more about Joel on Software than The Old New Thing. Raymond confesses that he has matured beyond building great features to discovering features that can be removed. (Yes, I am also thankful that the “unused desktop icons” sheriff is banished from Vista.) This is not exactly a nod to the “other camp,” and it is a very interesting notion. Anything that reduces the code surface simplifies testing and documentation and deployment and, most-of-all, support. That sounds like goodness to me and another fine way to have earned a day’s pay. I don't listen to podcasts much and many are longer than I want to listen through. I just discovered, however, that the little Windows Movie Maker utility that comes with every Media Center PC and every useful version of Vista (oops, it won’t run on my only Vista machine right now because I don’t have the right/enough graphic hardware acceleration, which I guess is why my Toshiba Satellite Tablet PC has a Windows Experience base score of 1.0). Ahem. Well, what I learned about Windows Movie Maker is that it is perfectly capable for editing audio files (e.g., podcast MP3 files) and resaving them. In this case, I chopped the first ten minutes off of the Technet Podcast right at the pause before the Raymond Chen interview begins. I can see doing some chopping of audio and video downloads where I want to preserve a particular piece. I’m always happy to save on disk and backup space.
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