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December 2004 - Posts
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Apple recently posted an article on 64-bit support in Tiger. It looks like only a few libraries are available in 64-bit, so you can't make GUI apps that use a 64-bit address space. However, you can make a 32-bit GUI app that uses your favorite form of Read More...
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Press release here . A beta is supposed to be released within a month. This is great news, spyware is such a nasty problem. It's unfortunate that we have to spend time thinking about problems like this... Read More...
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I'm doing some SQL stored procedure programming for the first time. The error handling is really, really primitive. T-SQL uses lots of global variables, which makes things really complex. For example, if you do an UPDATE, @@ROWCOUNT has the number of Read More...
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I wanted to play around with creating a simple RSS feed from an ASP.NET page. I looked around for existing solutions. Any searches involving RSS are a bit hopeless, but I found Jason Salas’ RSS server control . It’s nice because you can easily hook it Read More...
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Read more and watch the video at channel9 or just download it from http://beta.toolbar.msn.com/ . I've been dogfooding it for a while and it works great! Read More...
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Dare Obasajo recently posted about the drawbacks of Outlook style UI for reading blogs . He says it's because Outlook has the assumption that you want to read every message. I have a slightly different take on it. I get plenty of email I don't read :-) Read More...
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Speaking of auto complete , I got my first patent! It's some email address autocomplete stuff from my MacOE days. You can read it here if you have nothing better to do. Read More...
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Google labs released Google Suggest today. It basically does auto complete as you type in your search, showing you different options and how many results each has. It looks like it'll be useful when you don't know the best terms to use, or how to spell Read More...
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IGN gives KOTOR II a good review . I really enjoyed the first one. I was almost hoping the sequel would suck since it's so addicting! :-) Dang! Gamespot likes it too ! Read More...
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I've been gaining experience with some of the new C# 2.0 features and am planning to post on a few of them. Before jumping in, I wanted to give my criteria for evaluating them. Readability - Readability == maintainability, and this is one of the most Read More...
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I created an MSN space at http://spaces.msn.com/members/dancrevier/ . Read More...
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A new version of Process Explorer (8.60) is now available. Here's what's new (taken from the linked site): What's new in Version 8.60: Multi-row tabs on process properties dialog Image signing verification on process image properties dialog Mini-CPU usage Read More...
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A free Winter Fun Pack is now available for Windows XP through the Windows Genuine Advantage Program. It includes some desktop pictures, Windows Media Player visualizations and skins, and a Media Center Plugin. Just to hopefully avoid any conspiracy theories Read More...
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If you aren't running XP SP 2, there's an IE security update available. Presumably, the easiest way to get it is at http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com . I'm using XP SP 2, so I'm not sure :-) Read More...
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MSN spaces is now live. I guess it's been in beta in Japan for a while, but now it's available more widely. Dare Obasanjo , the author of RSS Bandit recently joined that team and has a good entry on MSN spaces. It lets you create a personal "space" where Read More...
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