Don’t let them trick you! MSDNs description of the IIF function is not correct. Read the rest of this entry »

…caused by the fingerprint reader on my computer. It actually tried to electrocute me

It’s friday, I’m going home.

[I'm no VB enthusiast, so pardon me if this post is a bit biased.]

When I started out programming, a long time ago, the motivation was utter control. I wanted to master the computer, see how far I could get and how much I could get a away with. It was all about circumventing any obstacle in my path. I’ve done a lot of bad things. Some on purpose, some by pure ignorance, some on pure luck. And usually I learn something from it (moral, ugh). Read the rest of this entry »

I don’t know what to call this feature, but it’s been bugging me for quite some time. I don’t know when I got it, why I got it, and if they were ever planning on telling me that I had it. Anyway, I know for sure that I try not to use it - and it’s a pain. It’s the ctrl-shift hotkey. Read the rest of this entry »

I was working on this extremly bleeding edge .NET application with some hightech (stolen) javascript code, when I figured I needed a way to obfuscate the client side scripts. I searched the web twice, but all I came up with was a couple of advanced desktop applications that could do the trick… but that was not what I wanted… Read the rest of this entry »

The last few days my site has been clogged up by massive blog spam. To stop it I tried different thing, including disabling comments on my blog, but to my surprise the comments were still pouring in. So, I made a quick decision to throw out BBlog and welcome WordPress instead.

So, after a day of templating almost everything seems to be up and running, almost…

Yariv Hammer has a great post on how to generalize delegates by using Generics. And, since he kindly mentions me in that post I just had to put up a link.

Again the Visual Studio C++ Debugger has proven to be a bit inconsistent and this time it’s with function addresses. Read the rest of this entry »

After a couple of days (or nights?) with intense rehearsal, Pidi and The Virtual Woolly Ones are finally ready for their first show… So, turn up the volume, scream “Woolly, Woollier, Woolliest” and surrender to complete woolliness!

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…you should check out ACCUs Book Reviews. That way you can avoid buying some of the books I bought…