What brought you here?

It’s always instructive to examine your referrer logs to see how people reach your sites, especially via search engine queries. Here are a few recent referrers to Chip’s Tips and my thoughts:

Google: Windows API simple application example c

At least one of these words doesn’t belong. Google led them to this post, which they probably found unsatisfying.

Google: tips for cobol programmers

Um, how about “get a life”. They landed here, where I make only a passing back-handed reference to that venerable language that numbed my brain a couple of decades ago.

Google: ruby Win32API shellexecute

I get several queries a day for something like this, specifying either ruby or C#. They always land on a post where I give an example of using ShellExecute in Synergy/DE, so that’s got to be disappointing. I can almost hear them sigh in resignation, so I finally broke down today and wrote an example for Ruby, and linked to another for C#.