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Entries from January 2005

Open Source Flash projects

January 31st, 2005 · No Comments

There is some absolutely amazing flash animations over at http://levitated.net/, some of which are open source, so you can download them and tinker with it.

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Tags: Random Linkage

Java GTK Binding Demo

January 26th, 2005 · Comments Off

Andrew posts a nice demo covering Java, Eclipse, Glade and GTK. This looks like a much easier way to start to learn GTK.

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Tags: Linux · Programming · Random Linkage

Co Routines

January 26th, 2005 · No Comments

Scott’s blog is back up and is now powered by Community Server Beta 3. He has two articles about partially debuggable Co Routines. A Co Routine is a function which saves control state between function calls.

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Tags: Programming

Backups and School

January 25th, 2005 · No Comments

So I came across this blog post while reading Planet Gnome and it reminded me that I do not have a good backup strategy for my computers. My main concern is my linux box and the various config files I’ve tweaked over the years (especially my kernel config). Most of the data om my computers [...]

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Tags: General · Linux

Why oh Why SQL Server?

January 25th, 2005 · No Comments

Why can you not import a CSV file properly and ignore commas within string columns? I have been trying to import a very large (~250,000 line) Comma Seperated Value file into SQL Server for almost an hour now. Its very frustrating to see something like this

So while I was waiting for an import to finish, [...]

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Tags: Mac · Programming · Rant

Windows Notepad Replacement

January 25th, 2005 · 3 Comments

I have been using a little program called Win32Pad along side Windows notepad.exe, my number one most opened app according to Windows XP’s Frequently Used Apps menu list, as a text editor.
Here are some of the great features that I cannot live without.

Line Numbering — A must if you are a programmer. “Error on line [...]

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Tags: Programming · Random Linkage

The Weekend Report

January 22nd, 2005 · 2 Comments

Todays top story, we got over a foot of snow Friday night into this afternoon. Winds were blowing at 40 miles per hour which made whiteout conditions all over the city. I guess we didn’t get the worst of the storm though. Boston is reporting that they may get 18-30 inches of snow or more [...]

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Tags: General · Mac · Movies · Random Linkage