Open Source Flash projects

by Marshall on January 31, 2005

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.

Java GTK Binding Demo

by Marshall on January 26, 2005

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

Co Routines

by Marshall on January 26, 2005

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.

Backups and School

by Marshall on January 25, 2005

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 (…)

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Why oh Why SQL Server?

by Marshall on January 25, 2005

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 (…)

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Windows Notepad Replacement

by Marshall on January 25, 2005

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 (…)

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The Weekend Report

by Marshall on January 22, 2005

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 (…)

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