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October 2003 - CraigBlog
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I’ve been living on the command line for a while now, mostly in Cygwin’s
Bash shell. I like it, but it’s not perfect. Nothing is, of course, but maybe this will
be a bit closer.
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This CNN article talks about how some MIT students have figured out a a legal way to stream MP3s and cut the record companies out...fantastic! Just because I don't like it when people copy music without paying for it doesn't mean that I side with the...
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Recently,
I mentioned that I thought the Microsoft Application Blocks were not mature. I sited
a general documentation bug and a Configuration Management Application Block threading
bug as key indicators that the software isn’t ready for prime time. And I ...
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Niels
reports that the C# 2.0 (Whidbey) spec is now online here.
Guess I need to find some time this weekend!
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So, I’ve spent some time over the past couple of weeks looking at Microsoft’s
Application Blocks. If you’re not familiar with these, you should know that
they’re basically software written by the Patterns
& Practices group that’s aimed at solving common problems. For example...
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The Direct3D device can become lost due to a variety of events - screen savers
kicking in, computers being locked, or machines going into standby. In this
tutorial, we'll see how to gracefully deal with these events.
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Because of a scheduled outage by the power company that services the DevelopMentor
offices in California, this weblog (and all other staff.develop.com resources) will
be unavailable from 11PM PST, Saturday, October 18th, 2003 through about
noon PST on Sunday the 19th.
Note that this outage will not aff...
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My client asked me about a slightly tricky problem the other day. I thought I’d
share the answer here, since I thought it was fairly clever.
The problem stems from the fact that they have a database that has a table with columns
that can hold values like ‘Y’, ‘N’, ‘0’, or ‘1’
t...
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I ran across Thawte’s Web
of Trust page the other day. It’s an interesting idea, and appealing to
a cheap bastard like me since it’s free. And as email signing has been suggested
as a technology that could help combat spam, it appears to be worth looking into.
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I don’t claim to have read all the DirectX books on the market. These days there’s
such a flood of material that reading everything on any topic would be challenging.
But my DirectX bookshelf has a fair number of books on it now…and none of them
are very good. Most of them are barely any good at all. The one I’ve read most
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Joel posts another great one, this time on the
basics of Unicode. He rightly points out that every developer should know this
stuff.
But you all know this already, because you all read Joel, right? Right!?!?
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I had heard them talking about doing this, but seeing
it is hilarious.
If you’re wondering why this guy rates a video from Chris and Don at his wedding…it’s
just because he asked. :)
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You've probably read a lot by now about the tension between the OO purist view of the world and the XML purist view of the world. You might also have picked up that I personally find myself more at the XML end of the spectrum, due in no small part...
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It’s great when your hobbies provide you with nice fringe benefits. For example,
it’s no surprise to anyone that reads this blog that I’ve been studying
DirectX in my spare time and writing up what I learn in the hopes that it’ll
help someone else. Well,
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So MIT has this cool project where they are trying to make as much as possible of
their course material available, for free, on the web. There are even some videotaped
lectures up there. Find it here. They’ve got
over 500 courses up there now, although the quality and amount of material varies
greatly from course to...
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