My last post was well and good (definitely read the comments), but I think I should be serious about my new employer because I really am excited to work there. Here are some reasons why:
The opportunity to work with people smarter than me. The chance to meet some of the people I admire in the [...]
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If you are following the instructions to build log4cxx 0.10 in Visual Studio 2005, and you have the Windows Platform SDK v6.0 installed, you may get errors compiling multicast.c in the apr project.
I found the solution, and it’s pretty easy. Open up multicast.c and edit the lines:
136: #if MCAST_JOIN_SOURCE_GROUP
148: #if MCAST_JOIN_SOURCE_GROUP
to [...]
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Change is a fact of life. Nowhere is this more obvious in a medium where the very thing we make is completely intangible and malleable: software development. There is almost nothing that is impossible in software–there are only limited resources.
This malleability has been one of the reasons for the enormous pace of change we’ve seen [...]
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I saw this book when I bought Programming WPF a few weeks ago and it looked promising enough to buy. I’ve been doing unit testing in C# for a few years now, but I thought there were always things to learn and maybe I’d pick up a few new ideas.
It is easy to contrast this [...]
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Using just these links as a guide, we quickly (less than a day) put up a data source over https for our customers to download GIS data to Google Earth.
KML reference and tutorial - KML is the XML language used to describe features that can be displayed in Google Earth and Google Maps.
Sample code [...]
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When I was 9, I started playing with GW-BASIC by typing in programs found in the old kid’s 3-2-1 Contact magazine. This soon progressed to QBASIC, where I mostly made cool graphics with lines and circles.
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QBASIC is not included in Windows anymore, but you can still get it.
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I had [...]
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Tracking changes in database tables is an incredibly useful feature–especially for operational data that can change often. Having recently had to implement this feature, I thought I’d share some of the techniques I learned.
Sample Database
First, let’s conceptualize a very simple database consisting of user information (name, date of birth), and e-mails. A user can have [...]
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You’ve installed Visual Studio 2005 on Vista and dutifully changed it to run as administrator, like you’re supposed to. And then…
Problem: Visual Studio 2005 solutions no longer open when you double-click them in Windows Vista. In fact, when you double-click nothing happens.
Solution: Change them to open with Visual Studio 2005 directly instead of the vslauncher.exe [...]
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There are so many postings out there on all sorts of blogs about how not to waste time that I’m not sure I can contribute something very meaningful (certainly not new), but since it’s something I’ve been thinking about, I might as well spill some ideas about it.
Definition
Any discussion of time-wasting is profitless unless you [...]
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I’ve setup a new domain for a front page for my software hobbies and what will eventually be my “store front”:
Geek Softworks
It uses WordPress, but it’s not a blog–it’s for the software I write. So far, only a few products are up, including DiskSlicer (a new version!), Windows Media Top 10 Plugin, and Word Count [...]
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