Beware when creating your own timestamp in C++ Written on March 27, 2007, by akafazov.
I was trying to convert a date from text to struct tm, but I noticed the time is printed one month ahead. After looking at the definition of the structure it became clear the I have to decrement the month with 1, because it should be counted from 0 to 11, not from 1 to [...]
Google sitemap generator Written on March 26, 2007, by akafazov.
Google sitemap generator is a plugin that generates a sitemap.xml structure and sends it to Google. It is something great if you want google to quickly craw all pages of interest in your blog. It works by generating a XML file which contains information about all your content. You have the option to include/exclude pages [...]
Canon Pixma MP150 Written on March 25, 2007, by akafazov.
This is probably one of the best piece of hardware I have purchased. The Canon Pixma MP150 is great color printer, so I wanted to share my experiences with it, without giving you detailed hardware specs and tests but rather a user-friendly view.
So, what I like about this printer:
Speed – for a moderate home [...]
Office Live Written on March 25, 2007, by akafazov.
What is Office Live
Office Live is a online solution from Microsoft which provides small businesses with the tools and technology to manage their daily business operations online. Office live features two types of sites – private and public. The private site offers you a set of applications like contact, document, email, time, project, sales management [...]
How to make this blog better Written on March 22, 2007, by akafazov.
I decided to write this down, because I believe that unwritten goals are no goals at all. So here are some ideas I think will be needed to take this blog a step further to the way I really want it to be.
Provide better quality content – this is my top priority.
Design my custom template [...]
error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol Written on March 15, 2007, by akafazov.
When this error occurs
Linking…RBaseLnkD.lib(XmlDomDoc.obj) : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol “unsigned short * __stdcall _com_util::ConvertStringToBSTR(char const *)” (?ConvertStringToBSTR@_com_util@@YGPAGPBD@Z) referenced in function “public: bool __thiscall ClsXmlDomDoc::LoadXmlString(char *)” (?LoadXmlString@ClsXmlDomDoc@@QAE_NPAD@Z)
and you are using some of the XmlDomDoc functionality, the reason most probably is a missing header file.
#include <comdef.h>
should do it
C++: Discover local and network printers Written on March 15, 2007, by akafazov.
This piece of code can be used to discover all printers, both local and network type.
#include “stdafx.h”
using namespace std;
int _tmain(int argc, _TCHAR* argv[])
{
DWORD needed=4+512+592, num=0;
//WCHAR [...]
kafazov.net was offline on the morning of 14. March 2007 Written on March 15, 2007, by akafazov.
The host server was offline yesturday, 14. March 2007 for several hours. I contacted the customer support through the chat method and they told me they are working on the issue. I couldn’t get any specific information on the problem.
This is OK, as far it doesn’t happen too often. The whole thing made me think [...]
Website migration to kafazov.net Written on March 12, 2007, by akafazov.
This blog, along with the other pages previously located under the domain angel.kafazov.com are now moved to kafazov.net. I have successfully moved the blog and the homepage, the photo gallery follows some time later this week.
I have also changed my email address, so please note that angel [at] kafazov [dot] com is unvalid. The new [...]
More ideas on time management – Do It Now from Steve Palvina Written on March 6, 2007, by Angel Kafazov.
Just read another impressive article from Steve – Do It Now. He describes the ideas he put into use in order to graduate college in 3 semesters and with excellent grades. Main points of the article are:
Clarity is key
Be flexible
Use single handling
Failure is your friend
Do it now!
Triage ruthlessly
Identify and recover wasted time
Apply the 80-20 rule
Guard [...]