The American Lung Association just came out with its 2009 State of the Air report. Many large metropolitan areas don’t fare well on the list – including places like San Diego, Kansas City, Cincinnati (!) and Charlotte (NC). Of course, New York, Los Angeles and Las Vegas shouldn’t surprise anyone by making it to the list of most polluted cities. Read the rest of this entry »
In a very bizzare incident, the value of the AppData registry key at HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders changed from %USERPROFILE%\Application Data to C:\Application Data.
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The previous article on Function List Plugin dealt with setting up the plugin on Notepad++ 5.3. In this article, I show you how to set up parsing rules and tree view icons for the Function List Plugin in Notepad++ 5.3. The rules shown here are for code written in Python.
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Some awesome commercials posted to Youtube. Read the rest of this entry »
I had dinner at Cafe Latté tonight. They had a salad I haven’t seen there before – the Chicken Curry salad. Most non-Indian restaurants where I have tried anything with ‘Curry’ in the name have been largely disappointing. But not this treat. Read the rest of this entry »
Remote Desktop Sharing is a very cool feature of Windows XP. It is turned on in a default installation of XP. But after you have tweaked it a little, you might not be able to connect to the machine remotely. I suggest in this article some nooks and crannies where you might look for the proverbial rat. Read the rest of this entry »
Windows applications written using the .NET framework do not have a clean way of making the startup form initially invisible or hidden. Setting the Me.Visible property to False in the Load event of the form does not work. In this post, I show you a sample application that starts up invisible and uses a timer to become visible after 10 seconds. Read the rest of this entry »
Function List is one of the many cool features of Notepad++. But the latest version requires extra steps to set up Function List properly. This 2-part article shows how to install Function List and how to configure the new parser rules for your own favorite language.
Windows CE 5.0 doesn’t have a full-featured Task Manager. The included Task Manager only lists processes with visible windows. I needed an app that could list Window-less tasks and let me kill the tasks. I did find an excellent application by Viktor Toth which has the same feature set as the XP/Win2k Task Manager, but the free version only lists process – it doesn’t let you kill a process. I am making available for download a binary that will let you both list processes and kill a process in Windows CE 5.0.
When you develop a new piece of test code or scratch-an-itch code as a developer, most often, you just need to run the software on the same computer that you developed on. That keeps things easy because you already have the linked libraries installed. But every so often, you need to install the software on a machine ‘out there’. For such occassions, you need to create a Setup Project in Visual Studio. Read the rest of this entry »
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