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Commodore 64 Reference

Commodore 64 Reference An oldie but a good system, the Commodore 64 was a very popular system back in the day and had pretty much everything the user would need at the time, including an interpreter, a disk driver to … Continue reading

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Does anyone have experience with Gdi Plus

I am wondering if anyone has experience with GDI plus from Microsoft. This dll is an extension to the basic gdi from the early days of windows development. I am not sure if people are still using this technology, but … Continue reading

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Article on Forbes suggests death of the PC

There is an article on Forbes boasting the death of the PC market, and a steady decline since the years beginning. I agree that there may have been a decline in server sales, and home computer hardware, but, there is … Continue reading

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MAPI Without GetProcAddress

If you have ever worked with extended MAPI I am sure that you have come across the need to use the win32 API function GetProcAddress. There is now a stub library over at codeplex and some sample code to show … Continue reading

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Windows 8 Shell Replacement – Classic Shell

For those of you uncomfortable with the new windows 8 shell, there is another solution out there for you. This was brought to my attention by a colleague, and I thought I might share. Classic Shell

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.Net Trimming Whitespace in an image

In case you wanted to know, it’s not quite that difficult to trim pure white pixels from an image in .net. The crux of the problem is really getting access to the color data and understanding what you are looking … Continue reading

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VB.Net Array Testing is Nothing and Array Length

When working with .net languages, you may have come across some subtle difference between the languages in terms of how different situations are handled. One of these situations is the If statement. If you want to check an array to … Continue reading

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IE 10 PostBack Issues

Anyone notice that they have a .net 2.0 or .net 4.0 web application that just simply stops working in IE10? Please see the following links to for more information, but the root of the problem seems to be an up … Continue reading

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MSSQL Join types explained

I found a really good article explaining the difference between the different types of joins in SQL Server. It is important to have these different types to be able to selectively retrieve the information you are looking for in the … Continue reading

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Akeeba Backup Console Application

Akeeba Backup Console Application So… I am sure that anyone who uses Joomla has hopefully heard of Akeeba Backup by now. This is a very useful Joomla site backup component that backs up the entire site using ajax technology and … Continue reading

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