Category Archives: Programming

Canvas

Posted on October 13, 2008 by Arthur

During my programming career, I’ve ran into several cases where I absolutely had to use owner-draw to accomplish customized drawing. Originally, as a Delphi programmer, this required knowledge of the specific graphic wrappers around the Windows GDI (and GDI+) functions … Continue reading →

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FFMpeg

Posted on September 19, 2008 by Arthur

Between all the ripping of my (legally) purchased DVDs and transcoding them to the proper format for my iPod I found out that most of the applications that I used have something in common (from Videora [free] to Mediacoder (open … Continue reading →

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Speed

Posted on July 5, 2008 by Arthur

I thought Mark’s posting about the new Adobe Acrobat 9 was the hilarious. If you’re into more snark, try the Adobe Acrobat 9 installation guide as done by the MicroPledge site. After the unpacking, the install process itself took 10 … Continue reading →

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PropertyGrids in C#

Posted on February 17, 2008 by Arthur

Yesterday, I decided to tackle .Net’s PropertyGrid component: for Helios, I was working on code to allow users to view Datasource-specific data at run-time. For this, I already had several support objects programmed and ready to go, and what better … Continue reading →

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CVS meet Enscript

Posted on February 17, 2008 by Arthur

Last night, I was installing CVS on my Debian box. Actually, it was already installed: the CVSROOT was ready to go and the service itself had been listening since the early days. However, I never finished assigning rights to myself, … Continue reading →

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Owner-draw (II)

Posted on February 6, 2008 by Arthur

Earlier, which is, almost a year ago, I was comparing owner-draw programming in Delphi and C# and concluded that it’s quite similar: basically you set any visual component in a particular mode (‘I’m going to take care of drawing the … Continue reading →

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Is there a statistician in the house?

Posted on January 19, 2008 by Arthur

I downloaded the Visual Studio 2008 Express Edition ISO from the Microsoft site and discovered that specific stuff I was looking for isn’t supported in that special edition. I guess there is (or rather was) a huge difference between ‘Orcas’ … Continue reading →

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SoundEx

Posted on January 11, 2008 by Arthur

A couple of days ago, it was the 70th birthday of Donald Knuth (or rather, his webpage), who as you found out, is hero to many programmers around. I think he’s still working on completing his masterwork, ‘The Art Of … Continue reading →

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Passwords

Posted on January 8, 2008 by Arthur

A couple of months ago (around the same time that I was looking into the sources of the .Net version of KeepPass) I ran into this page: an algorithm to generate pronounceable passwords1. Well, at least a bit more pronounceable … Continue reading →

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Oh. Noes!

Posted on November 15, 2007 by Arthur

Yesterday, my two sets of Ubuntu 7.10 (“Gutsy Gibbon”) arrived by snail-mail, which means that I’ll be upgrading my ‘v1r7u41 b0xen’ this weekend. Once again, the package came with free stickers. Hey, Sun, what’s that? Still no free stickers with … Continue reading →

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Word

Posted on September 2, 2007 by Arthur

I was looking for dictionaries the other day after finding myself impressed by Ubuntu’s Dictionary program. I found out that it actually uses the gdict set of XML files, and you can find around the freedict site (you probably need … Continue reading →

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Copy, Paste.

Posted on June 21, 2007 by Arthur

Via something, I ran into this (online) sarcastic presentation about Copy Paste Programming (Wikipedia). A quick summary: Best practices: Find the code, copy/paste it, compile, enjoy! Pitfalls and workarounds: The copied/pasted code does not compile. Copy/Paste larger portion of code. … Continue reading →

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Hey, hey.

Posted on June 14, 2007 by Arthur

Today, I discovered that the StringReaders/Writers in .Net only support UTF-16 encoding, which may lead to some breakage if you’re using it in combination with the XMLSerializer object. If you really need to maintain UTF-8 compatibility, you should use a … Continue reading →

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