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Apr 22, 2009
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My Left Foot, Extreme Pain, and Me…

Tao Te Ka-Ching ― So I believe in my last entry I said I couldn’t wait for my surgery, cause I had such a bad ass media center setup and games and and and…First of all, if they suggest you stay an extra night, stay the extra night.  Most likely it’s because... (More)
My Left Foot, Extreme Pain, and Me…
Posted on Apr 22nd, 2009
Apr 18, 2009
ZagNut posted a new topic.
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Proper Preparation for Surgery, and Me…

Tao Te Ka-Ching ― Well folks, I am perhaps a little over a day away from major surgery.  And I can’t wait...Why?That’s why…With my wife’s full blessings, I have, at the foot of my bed:a 32” HDTV PlayStation 3 Fresh, unopened copy of Fallout 3... (More)
Proper Preparation for Surgery, and Me…
Posted on Apr 18th, 2009
Mar 25, 2009
ZagNut posted a new topic.
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A Stupid Anonymous Thread Trick, and Me…

Tao Te Ka-Ching ― Ok, the storyline:  A web site creates a temporary file to work with, then is supposed to delete it, because maybe space is low on the drive or whatever.  There are times where the file will still be locked from our work when we try to... (More)
Posted on Mar 25th, 2009
Mar 17, 2009
ZagNut posted a new topic.
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Copying tables from one database to another, and me…

Tao Te Ka-Ching ― So, lately I had the dilemma of having done a bunch of preliminary SQL work in 2008 Express, then needing to port my results over to a staging SQL 2005 server at work.  I casually backed up the 2008 database and lo and behold, couldn’t restore... (More)
Posted on Mar 17th, 2009
Mar 7, 2009
ZagNut posted a new topic.
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Duplicate Files, Hash Codes, SQLite, and Me…

Tao Te Ka-Ching ― My wife’s been getting on my case about having a gazillion different hard drives with everything and our mothers on them all around the house.  I mean, come on everybody, she just wants her pictures in one @%$!# spot!  She also “misused... (More)
Duplicate Files, Hash Codes, SQLite, and Me…
Posted on Mar 7th, 2009
Feb 24, 2009
ZagNut posted a new topic.
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Binary Data Transforms, Hex Editing, Design Patterns, and Me…

Tao Te Ka-Ching ― Lately for work I have been responsible for developing a .NET layer to read from and write to an existing application's binary data files.  The task has proven tedious, but not necessarily boring, as I've discovered some invaluable tools and... (More)
Binary Data Transforms, Hex Editing, Design Patterns, and Me…
Posted on Feb 24th, 2009
Feb 10, 2009
ZagNut posted a new topic.
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Baby Toys, Potty Words, SQL, and Me...

Tao Te Ka-Ching ― So little Liam just had his first birthday last Thursday.  Among the plethora of toys dumped on him is an incredibly annoying, er, wonderful alphabet speaking caterpillar:There’s a small yellow bow switch just below the head with three... (More)
Baby Toys, Potty Words, SQL, and Me...
Posted on Feb 10th, 2009
Feb 3, 2009
ZagNut posted a new topic.
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Visual Studio Extensions, C++ Debugging, and Me…

Tao Te Ka-Ching ― So, I am lazy, as I believe most programmers are.  I follow Bill Cosby’s sage advice to work hard to keep from working.At work I’d “inherited” a code-complete medium-sized application in C++ that requires somewhat extensive feature... (More)
Posted on Feb 3rd, 2009
Jan 20, 2009
ZagNut posted a new topic.
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In the name of Science, and Me…

Tao Te Ka-Ching ― All programmers, at one point or another, have dreamt of this:Of course, you know what this is, right? It’s a file. Duh, you say? No, you don’t understand. Each pixel represents 4 bytes of a file. I used the first two pixels to “store”... (More)
In the name of Science, and Me…
Posted on Jan 20th, 2009
Jan 8, 2009
ZagNut posted a new topic.
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Device Independent Bitmaps, C#, and Me…REDUX!

Tao Te Ka-Ching ― Well, after using the previously posted code in some projects at work, some limitations arose quickly.  The two biggest were support for 8-bit bitmaps, and support for both 5-5-5 and 5-6-5 16-bit bitmaps.The new code looks like the following: ... (More)
Posted on Jan 8th, 2009
Jan 7, 2009
ZagNut posted a new topic.
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Conway’s Game of Life, Pong, Screensavers, and Me…

Tao Te Ka-Ching ― Greetings, all:Due to the massive increase in my blog traffic (I think I het around 20 / week or so) after I initially offered up my Game of Life screensaver, I now offer, in celebration of the new year, GoLPong!That’s right, for 2009 you now can... (More)
Conway’s Game of Life, Pong, Screensavers, and Me…
Posted on Jan 7th, 2009
Jul 25, 2010
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