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Apr 04 2012
Tired of being second guessed when selecting text with your mouse in Outlook or Word? Here is the situation: You innocently start selecting the tail end of a word and suddenly and automatically the editor selects the whole thing!!! This drives me nuts. Maybe it was a long word, and I only wanted the last [...]
Apr 21 2010
Just to let everyone know that I finally removed the malware (an obfuscated javascript that would cause redirections to a bad site), and worked with the google tools to get the site’s name cleared. . Unfortunately some of the older posts’s pictures are gone as I upgraded to a newer version of WordPress – I [...]
Dec 13 2008
So you have decided to use SSL with POP3 to get your email from your Hostpapa- hosted site. The cPanel control panel gives you instructions on how to tell Outlook how to do this, and it is left as an exercise for the reader. Once everything is configured and you actually connect to the POP3 [...]
May 07 2008
Download Sample source code (26KB), for Visual Studio 2008 Here is a small WPF application I wrote, which I wanted to share. It is kind of dumb, but does show some interesting concepts, including data binding, localization, commands, a view model, menus and icons in menus. How does it work? Press the ShowMessage button, and [...]
May 06 2008
OK, this one took a bit of time to figure out, but I think I have it working to my satisfaction now. I want to be able to post source code, both C# code as well as XAML code (Windows Presentation Foundation) on the site. I found a plugin called Code Highlighter, that helps. I [...]
May 03 2008
A while back, Josh Smith wrote an article on Unit Testing and Model View Controller. The article features a small application that lets the user view some sample images. The WPF application uses and discusses the Model View Controller. While my kids were at swimming today, I analyzed the source code, to try to understand [...]
May 02 2008
The Create Patch and Apply patch Tortoise SVN commands are a developer’s friend. Here’s why. Let’s say you worked on a piece of functionality and you need it code-reviewed by someone not on site. Since you don’t want to commit, how do you get the software to the reviewer? Or what if you want to [...]
May 01 2008
René François Ghislain Magritte (November 21, 1898 – August 15, 1967) was a Belgian surrealist artist. He became well known for a number of witty and amusing images. I use the following image as the desktop background when I log in. I like the blue sky tones suggesting freedom, but when you open the window, [...]
Apr 27 2008
Its sign up time again for the City of Toronto classes, which include swimming, dancing, sports and various camps. I remember standing in line at 4:00am in the morning at the Franklin community centre with dozens of other parents a few years back – it was first come, first serve. People had brought in chairs, [...]
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