About code. Mostly on C++
In Visual Studio 2015 MFC comes with a new features (something that has rarely happen in recent years): support for dynamic dialog layout. That means library support for moving and resizing controls on a dialog. In this article I will show how this feature works. Suppose we have the following dialog: What we want is…
guidgen.exe is a small utility that comes with Visual Studio and generates GUIDs in a variety of formats. The problem with the tool is that it does not format GUIDs in plain text, which I happen to need many times (in source code, database tables, etc.) and I suppose is a feature needed by many…
If you’re a football fan you must have heard about the octopus called Paul that has predicted the outcome of all Germany’s matches at the World Cup 2010. She lives in the Sea Life Aquarium in the western city of Oberhausen. Before each match she was given two jars with a mussel and a national…
The w3counter.com site published several statistics based on 33 milion unique visits to 5664 sites. The statistics refer to the operating system, web browser, country and screen resolution of the visitor. The king of kings of operating systems is Windows XP with 83,48%, followed by Windows 2000, Max OS X and Windows Vista. Linux and…