Update on the keyboard driver Written on December 23, 2006, by akafazov.
Well, I could say that I’ve successfully finished my first driver. It works – this is the important. What went wrong however is that I managed to brake the OS and lost an hour reinstalling and stiff haven’t got my old configuration working, but I’ll come to that later.
So remapping a single key press to [...]
Keyboard driver Written on December 22, 2006, by akafazov.
I have some difficulties building the keyboard filter driver. First, I need a host and target computer in order to be able to debug the drivers. I don’t have a second PC to test with and this resulted in a big install-reboot-test-reboot sequence and many crashes due to malfunction of the driver. It is really [...]
Physical stuff Written on December 18, 2006, by Angel Kafazov.
I finished the diet on fruits and tea about a month ago and I managed to lose 7-8 kgs. I feel quite happy about it as I improved my overall health. As I am christian orthodox I decided to fast for the first time this year and I will do that until Christmas. It is [...]
“WPF/E” SDK released Written on December 13, 2006, by akafazov.
One of the many new exciting technologies from Microsoft – the “WPF/E” (codename) has been released. It enables developers to rapidly develop powerful web applications, but what I am trying to say it’s best to be read from their website – http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/asp.net/bb187358.aspx
Още една от многоте впечатлязащи разработки на Microsoft – the “WPF/E” (codename). Позволява разработването [...]
Administrative stuff Written on December 8, 2006, by akafazov.
Yesturday I noticed an interesting discussion on the wp-hackers mailing list of the WordPress project. A guy suggested using eAccelerator for speeding up loading of PHP pages, I installed it and it really works. The blog is now considerably faster.
I noticed that only for yesturday and today Akismet has caught more than 500 spam comments [...]
Google Reader Written on December 6, 2006, by akafazov.
I just want to say how impressed I am with the Google Reader, an RSS aggregator from, of course, Google. At first I was somewhat skeptical on using RSS reader, but after a while, when the bookmarks grew too much and especially with all the blogs I was trying to follow, I started subscribing to [...]
Mapping software from Microsoft and Google – the developer perspective Written on December 2, 2006, by akafazov.
For the time being, there are two main mapping software alternatives out there – Virtual Earth from Microsoft and Google Maps. They both have some unique and cool features and are utilizing AJAX to communicate with a streaming server. From a developer perspective they are particulary interesting due to the fact that they are free [...]