I don’t know about other people, but for a calculator I still swear by my old HP48SX or my newer HP49G. Using RPN, of course… never seen anybody give up using that once he really digs it. On the PC, I’ve been experimenting with all kinds or replacements, but they all had drawbacks. I’ve been trying to use HP emulators, which were difficult to use because of the funny keyboard mappings, plus you needed ROM images for them and that didn’t always seem to work either. There are of course RPN calc …
I just came across this very useful tool: ColorPicker.NET. It’s a color picker, nothing else. But I guess I’m hardly the only one who’s thought about writing something similar himself… it certainly does the job nicely.
I’ve recently started using Wintellect PowerCollections for my .NET 2.0 work. In case you don’t know it yet, that’s a very nice generic implementation of collection classes, similar in purpose to what the C++ standard template library has to offer. Peter Golde is the lead developer on this project and there’s the PowerCollections blog for those who want to follow development closely. In a recent blog post, Peter outlined where the project was going, with steps that will be done and also two ste …
Carrier Devices have announced their PDA2 and PDA2K handsets of the i-mate brand will come preloaded with Skype software. These devices apparently come with wireless LAN anyway, so this should work just as well as the PocketPC version of Skype does on my iPAQ — which is very well. But even if you can do it yourself: I think this is a great effort to integrate technologies… I wonder what the mobile phone companies will have to say about this. I should mention that this story is reported at Ge… …
A very interesting article here: Comparisons with Generics
In XPO, an ORM product by Developer Express, it’s possible to use a custom “value converter” to persist information when the standard mapping techniques are not sufficient. This provides a flexible approach that can be used in many different scenarios.
Although the Developer Express knowledge base provides an article that shows how to persist a bitmap, I had never actually used that approach. With .NET 2.0, I was thinking about persisting nullable types and I found that XPO …
A very nice article here that rings a lot of bells: The Truth About Real Programmers - John Topley’s Weblog
If you believe Microsoft’s description for the DNS Client service, it’s needed to resolve and cache DNS names. They emphasize that if the service is stopped, the computer will not be able to resolve DNS names and locate Active Directory domain controllers. Well, I can’t say anything about the Active Directory domain controllers, but as far as the DNS resolutions go, this descriptions appears to be plain wrong.
I first found out about this a while after installing a Windows XP machine, with SP1 …