Category Archives: Programming

MT, ToolTips

Posted on June 5, 2007 by Arthur

You may have noticed that version 4.0 of Movable Type has been officially ‘open sourced’ (at Digg). I prefer the rather more correct ‘Movable Type has been relicensed under a less restrictive (or more restrictiver, whichever you fancy) license’. After … Continue reading →

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That, SerialPort stuff

Posted on May 29, 2007 by Arthur

The log files reveal that a lot of people are looking for help using the Serialport component of the .Net Framework. Once again, lets summarize: There are two ways to access data from a serialport: 1. Using the DataReceived event … Continue reading →

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More cards

Posted on May 21, 2007 by Arthur

Since the weather was bad yesterday and (it appears) it’s going to be same-o-same-o today, I decided to check into (this last month’s) Card objects project. All earlier created objects were ‘non-visual’ objects and since we’re playing cards, it probably … Continue reading →

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SerialPort and C#

Posted on May 4, 2007 by Arthur

What you need to know before you plan to work on Serial port communication: 0. Create a good test environment. You may need com0com (earlier) which can simulate a loopback between 2 ports. 1. Carefully choose between non-blocking and blocking. … Continue reading →

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Minor-Finer

Posted on April 23, 2007 by Arthur

I added a minor project to the ‘Current Project’ section (Right here), a program in C# that generates classes based on table meta-data. It’s simple and it works: there are a couple of tricks how to collect metadata from ODBC … Continue reading →

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Cards

Posted on April 15, 2007 by Arthur

For something completely unrelated, I decided to check into my older Delphi code and noticed the ‘remnants’ of the code that actually started as a framework for a (basic) Spades1 card game. So hey: the code was actually so readable … Continue reading →

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Lazy.

Posted on March 20, 2007 by Arthur

I read that John Backus died at age of 82 (Slashdot discussion), who happened to be the person who apparently led the team of developers that brought us FORTRAN. I recalled his name because I was studying some BNF notations … Continue reading →

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Owner-draw

Posted on February 21, 2007 by Arthur

One point with which I want to close off for today: Ownerdraw stuff in C#. Yesterday, I was comparing code to create owner-draw listboxes and comboboxes in both Delphi and C# and noticed how remarkably easy it’s to switch from … Continue reading →

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Code and gear

Posted on February 21, 2007 by Arthur

Yesterday, I received an e-mail from CodeGear that the new Delphi platform has been released (or here for fancy images). A bit expensive and I fear for the future of the Delphi environment: notice how the environment now closely seems … Continue reading →

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Sources

Posted on February 19, 2007 by Arthur

I was reading this posting at Slashdot (“OSS Music composer gaining attention”), which is about a developer who has started a Buzz-like music ‘tracker’ in C#. The part that caught my eye at the linked article was the following paragraph … Continue reading →

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You asked: Sharp+Develop+ODBC+example

Posted on January 28, 2007 by Arthur

I had that question appear in my logs a couple of times, and I assume, these are (beginning) .Net developers who want to have examples of accessing database servers via ODBC in C#. If you thought this was going to … Continue reading →

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A bug, you say?

Posted on January 18, 2007 by Arthur

There’s a silly bug in a C# method for the Calendar class, GetWeekOfYear: Its second parameter accepts a CalendarWeekRule enumeration with a choice of FirstDay, FirstFourDayWeek or FirstFullWeek. There’s a great example in the API/documentation, however, the samples don’t seem … Continue reading →

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I can do this too…

Posted on January 11, 2007 by Arthur

Yes, so I needed to get into an older site and I forgot the password, because, well, back in 2000, I used an FTP program (FTP Explorer) that (at that time) was pretty popular. So, late last year, I was … Continue reading →

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