Handling multiple events in .NET Written on November 30, 2006, by akafazov.
Recently a discussion on the BGDev forums made me think about how can we handle a keyboard or a mouse event for a whole application, regardless on which UI element has actually received the event. For example, we want to catch all mouse clicks in the application, but in reality the .NET will only fire [...]
What’s up with Windows Longhorn Written on November 30, 2006, by akafazov.
Windows Longhorn is not gone. After the introduction of Vista the Windows development split into two parts – Vista for the client and Longhorn for the server version of the OS. The server is expected about an year after the client.
If I understood correctly, the server will have no UI! Amazingly, there is not much [...]
Microsoft Open Specification Promise (OSP) Written on November 26, 2006, by akafazov.
Microsoft is gradually going open. This of course is not in the sence of the classical opensource software under GPL or BSD licence, rather than that a promise from the Microsoft Corp. that they will not impose any restriction on using their products and specification in your programs. Considering that specification for many Microsoft programs [...]
New technologies from Microsoft Written on November 24, 2006, by akafazov.
Today looking at MSDN saw that Windows Vista, Office 2007 and .NET Framework 3.0 are released, the first 2 for MSDN-subscribers only. It is sure worth the time to learn more about all those things and I hope I will have the time for it, probably after Christmas.
Днес видах в MSDN че са излезнали Windows [...]
How to avoid ActiveX WebBrowser object repaint problems Written on November 23, 2006, by akafazov.
There is a repaint issue with the WebBrowser COM component from Microsoft. What happens is that sometimes when you have a windows hosting the object (in-place container) and this window is minimized and then minimized, or has been partially covered by another window the object is not repainted properly. In order to avoid this you [...]
Windows Driver Development Kit Written on November 20, 2006, by akafazov.
As from the last week, I’ve been trying learn more about the Windows DDK as I need write a keyboard filter driver. It is a rather broad topic and includes a lot of documentations, infrastructure, code samples and anything you need to know for driver development under Windows. I’ve not done much progress for now, [...]
How did I quit smoking? Written on November 18, 2006, by Angel Kafazov.
This has probably been one of the best things I’ve done for myself and since I know there are many people who also want to quit smoking I would be glad to share my experience on the subject. But first a bit of a history.
I was a terrible smoker. Usually, I smoked a 20-pack every [...]
On diet Written on November 16, 2006, by Angel Kafazov.
This is the 3rd day that I am on a diet. Maria is doing the same thing. It is Dr. Emilova’s diet which should give our bodies a chance to recover from the food we’ve been eating until now. So the diet is the following:
8:00 tea
10:00 fruits
12:00 tea
14:00 fruits
16:00 tea
18:00 fruits
20:00 tea
We plan to make [...]
3Com Super Stack 2 switch Written on November 15, 2006, by akafazov.
I bought an old 3Com Super Stack 2 switch with 16 ports and without management module, which can provide SNMP functionality. Those switches are made to be placed in stacks, but I will use it for home purposes only. I still don’t know what kind of software runs on it, but I guess it supports [...]
Handy tool for resizing images Written on November 13, 2006, by akafazov.
Looking today at the Coppermine configuration and noticed that it uses the ImageMagik library to convert the images for preview. The library comes with some utililities such as the convert used by Coppermine. I tried the following
convert original.jpeg -resize 300×300 resized.jpeg
and I got a pretty good 300 per 300 pixel photo of the original.
Преглеждайки конфигурацията [...]