About code. Mostly on C++
For several months, after I installed Windows 7 at home I had a very annoying problem: whenever I was writing double quotes (“) or single quotes (‘) in some text editors and all browsers, the quotes did not appear. Only after I was typing another character, then both the opening and the closing quotes were … Read more
In the book The Blind Watchmaker, Richard Dawkins explains how evolution happens through accumulated small random variations (or mutations) filtered by the natural selection, as opposed to the mainstream misinterpretation that evolution happens in big leaps. He proposes a computer program, called weasel, to demonstrate how the accumulated small improvements (mutations that bring a benefit … Read more
In my previous post I wrote about a feature called “god mode” available in Windows 7 and Vista. By creating a folder with a specific name you get one entry point to all the commands available in Control Panel. It was reported that several such shortcuts exits. Below is an image with the 16 folders … Read more
There has been some buzz in the last few days about a feature in Windows 7 called “God mode”. Well, it doesn’t empower you as a God but allows you to access all the nested features available in Control Panel from a single entry point. All you have to do is creating a folder (or … Read more
Two months ago I was showing my friends a film called “The Great Global Warming Swindle.” As the title suggests, the topic of the movie is the global scale deceit about the man-made global warming. A number of important scientists argue that man has nothing to do with the rise of temperature and everything happens … Read more
I have updated my Visual Studio addin that displays the status of a build/clean/deploy action. If you get the latest version, 1.2, and are running Visual Studio 2005, 2008 or 2010 (they are all supported) on Windows 7, the progress of the build is also displayed on the Taskbar, on the item corresponding to the … Read more
I recently found a piece of code that can be summarized by the following sample: interface I { void F1(); void F2(); } class X { public void F2() { Console.WriteLine(“F2”); } } class A : X, I { public void F1() { Console.WriteLine(“F1”); } } As you can see there is an interface I … Read more
In this post I want to show how you can implement common list operations: union, intersection, difference and concatenation. Concatenation is the simplest of them all, because type List already has a function call append that does everything for you. let concat left right = List.append left right The union of two lists is a … Read more
Am asistat astazi la evenimente similare celor din decembrie 1989: incercari de manipulare si denigrare la nivel national. Se intampla evenimente importante la Timisoara, Bucuresti, Brasov si alte orase si aproape nici o televiziune nu arata faptele. E probabil primul pas spre ce se va intampla de acum incolo daca Mircea Geoana, condus de grupurile … Read more
I ran across a breaking error while trying to install SQL Server 2008 on a Windows 7 machine. The rule “Previous releases of Microsoft Visual Studio 2008” failed. Here is the error message that I received. That was odd, because I actually had Visual Studio 2008 with SP1 installed on that machine. So I start … Read more