Writing a Skype Plugin in C++
Shows how to write a Skype extension using Visual C++, WTL and Boost.
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All About .NET
If you are new to the world of .NET or looking for great Tips and Tricks, this is the place to go.
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100 Vim commands every programmer should know
Since the 70’s, Vi is one of the programmer’s best friend. Nevermind you’re new to Vi or not, here’s a big list of 100 useful commands, organized by... more »
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Mount FTP Or SFTP As A Drive In Windows
Mount FTP Or SFTP As A Drive In Windows. sshfs for Windows. Using mindTerm and NetDrive to mount a drive for a ssh/sftp connection.
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Thanks Bill
Thanks to Bill Gates. This post is a bio and timeline of the life of Bill Gates.
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Excelsior JET 6.4: Smaller, Faster, More Secure Java
Since the beginning of time Java applications have been battered with complaints about startup time, memory footprint, performance and security.... more »
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An epic Bill Gates e-mail rant
Bill gates ranting about Microsoft's Moviemaker experience. Gates: "I am quite disappointed at how Windows Usability has been going backwards and the... more »
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Using Windows Server 2008 as a Desktop OS
Well, yesterday it seems I broke my Vista Business install (still not quite sure how this happened, but it did). Instead of just reinstalling it, I... more »
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ATM Fail
Windows activation reminder on an ATM screen. Ouch...
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Animated cursors in Java
Jeff Friesen begins a three-part series introducing three implementations of his Java-based animated cursor library, which extracts cursor images and... more »
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.NET Synchronised Dictionary
In .NET 2.0 and above the SyncRoot was removed from the Dictionary and Hastable classes which meant you can't create thread-safe versions of these... more »
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Some Wonderful Chinese Font Types for Windows
Are you looking for Chinese font types? Here is a list of wonderful Chinese font types, download and copy them to c:\Windows\Fonts, then you can use... more »
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Huge collection of Python scripts from Microsoft
Came across this after learning that Microsoft created Asirra (see comment) in Python. I had no idea that MS thought so highly of Python. Page has... more »
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Speeding Up Vista Boot Time
When you have a computer with a recent model CPU, chances are it's a dual-core CPU. Both Intel & AMD have been producing dual core CPU's for a few... more »
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Stylize Standard WPF Tabs Into Aqua Gel
I was making this WPF based application on weekends and wanted it to have a gel like look. I did not want to create a new control instead I wanted to... more »
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Why Request.Browser.Crawler is Always False in C#
When you try to use the Request.Browser.Crawler property in attempt to track search engine crawlers to your website built on IIS, but it always... more »
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Top 10 Firefox Addons for Web Designers
Yesterday I was browsing the Firefox addons directory looking for an addon that would notify me when I had mail with the old “You’ve got mail” sound... more »
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6 html and javascript codes to crash IE6
Who doesn’t hate IE6? Sadly, developers have to deal with that obsolete browser due to the still important amount of people using it. Here is a small... more »
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Windows Beats Linux/OSX at Handwriting
Lately I’ve been trying to code an application which requires some form of natural handwriting recognition. Natural Handwriting is basically the way... more »
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Firefox 3 Download Frenzy Breaks Website Attempting to Break Record
In an attempt to break the world record for most downloads, the traffic generated reiked havoc on both mozilla’s main website as well as the... more »
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How is my C# code converted into machine instructions?
As we all know that our .NET code (C#, VB.NET etc) are converted into MSIL instructions which in turn are put into the assemblies. MSIL is a high... more »
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Another Use for C# Using
If you are a C# developer you're familiar with the using directive. It appears at the top of every one of your class files informing the compiler... more »
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Linq to SQL with Windows Communication Foundation in a Multi Tiered Environment - Part 2
In the first part of this article, I tried to define a Users & Favorites scenario and the things to keep in mind about Linq to SQL. In this post I’ll... more »
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Vista's big problem: 92 percent of developers ignoring it
And to think Microsoft used to be popular with the developer crowd...
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Free Java Library for Accessing Windows Regisrty
Java Registry Wrapper is a free pure java library for performing common windows registry functions. It provides the following functionalities. ... more »
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