October 2008
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Quick update →
First of all I want to apologize to anyone that wanted to use the project, I know I promised that the first version was coming out soon, but I have reasons why I could not code as much as I wanted….
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Ghost Town
A couple of days a go Bea and I decided to watch Ghost Town. It was one of those evenings in which you have nothing to do and you don’t want to go out with your friends and get drunk…. I think I’m getting older, I keep finding it harder and harder to go out to get drunk, but I do get drunk in the pub without wanting.
Going back to the movie, we totally recommend it, the plot is...
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Castlefield pictures
All of our stuff was pick up today by the relocation company. In a normal day I would have stayed at home coding and watching TV, but because we have nothing in the house except what we need to live for the next 5 days we have nothing to do at home. We have decided to take advantage of the situation and went to Castlefield to take some picts:
Who dares to say now that Manchester is an ugly...
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Flock on OpenSuse 11.0
I recently decided to start using Flock for my everyday web needs. Flock 2.0 is based on Mozilla Firefox 3.0 which means that I am going to have the same great surfing experience but spiced up with the web 2.0 feeling.
On one hand Flock is really easy to install in Windows and Mac OS X since it comes with the traditional Setup.exe for Windows and the .dmg image for Mac. On the other hand they...
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One of the great reasons to move to Brussels
There is just one thing as famous as chocolate that comes from Belgium, and that is Jean-Claude Van Damme. Every kid that was born in the 80s or earlier (Ed, I’m talking about you) has watched at least one of his movies. Now that I’m moving to Brussels, I have the chance to watch his latest movie in his home country, hurray!!!!! Here is the official trailer:
Ain’t that going...
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Bebo!
krishanu:
I got this message 38 Days ago and I wasn’t aware of it. I usually get some webcam invites in my wall in my Bebo profile but it’s just one of those networks that I never use and created just for the heack of creating it.
But lately I was getting too many cam invites and the alerts are coming to my mailbox so I decided to change the Privacy setting and looged in Bebo. And this is what...
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Paradigm Shift: Design Considerations For Parallel... →
Developers will need new frameworks for developing software that is ready to take advantage of multiple CPUs. But most importantly they will need to learn the traps and pitfalls of writing…
Concurrency Hazards: Solving 11 Likely Problems In... →
This article discusses: * Fundamental concurrency concepts * Concurrency problems and mitigations * Patterns for achieving safety * Cross-cutting concepts
ZedGraph →
ZedGraph is a set of classes, written in C#, for creating 2D line and bar graphs of arbitrary datasets. The classes provide a high degree of flexibility — almost every aspect of the graph can be…
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Arrangements
The day to move to Brussels is closer, we have made most of the arrangements that needed to be maid. I am quite impress that so far we have been able to manage everything quite well. I have got to say that I would had never imagine that I would be able to organize my move back to the continent in less than 10 days (well I still have to close accounts etc…) with not too many problems what so...
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Moving to Brussels!!!
Bea and I are leaving Manchester. The decision was mainly originated due to the financial crisis. I got a number of job offers at the beginning of the year which I rejected, but at the end I had to surrender to the fact that I needed a proper job.
From the 1st November and on I will be working for GDF/Suez in their Electrabel HQ in Brussels. For any one who does not know what Electrabel does...
Telephone numbers in the United Kingdom -... →
The UK telephone numbering plan, also known as the National Telephone Numbering Plan, is the system used for assigning telephone numbers in the United Kingdom. It is regulated by the UK government’s…
Mork Structure - MDC →
he Mork format was used in most Mozilla-based projects, including the Mozilla browser suite, SeaMonkey, Firefox, and Thunderbird. In Firefox, it was used for browsing history data and form history…
Learn Regular Expression (Regex) syntax with C#... →
Regular Expressions are a powerful pattern matching language that is part of many modern programming languages. Regular Expressions allow you to apply a pattern to an input string and return a list…
C# Regular Expressions | O'Reilly Media →
Regular expressions have been used in various programming languages and tools for many years. The .NET Base Class Libraries include a namespace and a set of classes for utilizing the power of regular…
Geography - postal →
Royal Mail maintains a UK-wide system of postcodes to identify postal delivery areas. Most people know their postcode so ONS are able to use this as their main geographic reference when collecting…
C# Run a console application without DOS box →
The example shows how to run a console application without the appearance of a DOS box.
It also shows how to retrieve the console output.
Npgsql provider problems →
I am currently testing all the database connections used by the lib before I make the very first release of the library. And I have found the following interesting situations with the Npgsql…
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How to install SPORE using Cedega
I try to use my Windows partition just for development for Windows applications (which I have been doing quite a lot) but today I have decided to take a day off and do some geeky stuff.
A couple of days ago I decided to by Spore and I used the EA on-line store. My Idea was to install the game on my OpenSuse installation where I have Cedega installed. I tried a couple of times to install the EA...
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Themes I love
I have been working a lot lately and I have not visited tumblr as much as I wanted, I usually check it out once a day, but I have been doing it a lot less, maybe once every three days.
If you have read my tumblr you probably have found it very, very boring… specially if you are not a software developer..
Anyway, I have notice that some people I follow have change their tumblrs and I though...
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Testing internal classes
I have been doing some serious unit testing with c’# Some of the classes I have designed are internal, that is, they cannot be accessed from outside the name space.
If anyone is used to unit testing you know you want to test those classes too, to do so you can use to different techniques:
Use tests inside the project and enclose them inside conditional compilation arguments
Use a...
The WPF Tab Control - Inside and Out →
When it comes to the WinForm’s Tab Control, there was a lot left to be desired. If you had to make major design changes, you were better off just writing one from scratch. The WPF Tab Control makes…
vCard Class Library for .NET →
an opensource lib to work with vCards and c#.
twitterizer - Google Code →
Library that cna be used within .Net to work with twitter accounts.
Contacts.Net - Home →
An open source lib (Ms-PL) that allow sto managed the new contact objects added in Vista.
WPF GUI design →
My recent work has been focused on the GUI of the desktop application to manage contacts. My main efforts right now are on the WPF GUI while I will code the GTK+ version later on.
The…
Image Resources in WPF →
How to add an image as a resource in a wpf app.
Personal Data Interchange →
vCard automates the exchange of personal information typically found on a traditional business card. vCard is used in applications such as Internet mail, voice mail, Web browsers, telephony…
Free Pdf eBook Search Engine →
Simple Google-like search engines but for PDF files.
Scribd →
In case you have never heard of this one before, the simplest way to define Scribd would be to call it Youtube for documents. People can upload whatever text documents they want and easily share them…
Main Page - Gutenberg →
Project Gutenberg (aka PG) has the largest collection of public domain books. These are the books that out of copyright and available for anyone to use for any purpose. Lots of books from the world’s…
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“> Unfortunately, sparc is hard to test without access to the hardware.
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– Miguel de Icaza: is a Mexican free software programmer, best known for starting the GNOME and Mono projects.
Comparison of different SQL implementations →
The goal of this page — which is a work in progress — is to gather information relevant for people who are porting SQL from one product to another and/or are interested in possibilities and limits of…
Databases - Firebird Generators →
How to implement autoincrement columns in a firebird database table.
Tumblr vs Wordpress.com
thunderror:
I decided to make this blog after I decided to see if Wordpress still feels as good as it did when I left it few months ago…I was looking for a place to post my rantings, but then my tech blog doesn’t let me do that. I always do not happen to have the time to update my tech blog…
So I open an alternative blog with tumblr. But then tumblr is quite restricted in the functionality...
Dennis "D.C." Dietrich : Referenced assembly... →
flamerobin.org →
A GUI that can be used to manage a Friebird database on multiple platforms.
Test Infected: →
General intro to correct unit testing.
Better late than never - alpha 0.0.0.1 →
Unfortunately I have to postpone the release of the very first alpha release a couple of day. I have found a small bug in the library and I wan to release the app as bug free as possible.
I know…
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Using log4net | O'Reilly Media →
A logging lib for C#
First alpha release goodies →
In the last post I commented that the first alpha release of the library and the application had been scheduled and on it a gave a number of features that were going to be included in the release.
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