What’s in a name? A patch by any other name would work as sweet
This week-end I was playing with some sources and I wanted to apply some patches to them. So, I downloaded patch.exe from GNU and tried to run it on Windows […]
Automating .NET Executables Using COM
In one of my projects I needed to script a class inside a .NET executable. .NET has very good support for in-proc COM components: you create a class library, add […]
Books
I have finally bought a modern OOA/D book: Craig Larman, “Applying UML and Patterns”). Martin Fowler recommends it as a good OO book in his “Patterns of Enterprise Applications Architecture“, […]
Should URLs depend on underlying server technology?
I ran into an interesting problem when I was brushing up my web site lately. Let’s say I had a static HTML page named http://www.ikriv.com/page.html. Now, I decided to use […]
WCF Configuration: Thou Shalt Not Hard Code
WCF comes with a very handy configuration language that allows you to define bindings, end point properties and the like. Doing the same in code is a) tedious, b) inflexible: […]
About Time Zones and Humility
I am discovering for myself the world of RSS, ATOM, and blog feed aggregators. I tried to find out what’s the difference between RSS and ATOM (here is a good […]
Lashing out at VB6 collections
Someone I could not refuse asked me to “take a look” at some Excel macros written in Visual Basic For Applications (VBA), which is a limited version of VB6 running […]
Emissive Material Troubles
It turns out that emissive material is quite a tricky fellow. Petzold’s book warns not to use EmissiveMaterial by itself, and always combine it with a diffuse material, which may […]
Dynamically Adding New Flash Objects to Your Page
Back in the days of a now dormant Internet startup, we ran into an issue of how to dynamically add new objects (Flash or otherwise) to your page. If you […]
WPF: Making Objects Invisible
This is not as easy as it might have been. There is no Visible property on ModelVisual3D or GeometryModel3D. Approaches considered in this discussion on the Microsoft site include making […]