Sun Java update – WTF?
I had a “Java update available” icon on my task bar for a while. Finally I decided to install it. I thought it would be something like a service pack […]
I had a “Java update available” icon on my task bar for a while. Finally I decided to install it. I thought it would be something like a service pack […]
We went to the “Liza in the Palace” concert today, which is a four-week series of Minelli concerts on Broadway. What can I say… I’ve got mixed impressions from this […]
I finally got to download it. Well I TRIED to download it. It is amazing. I wonder, if they wanted to make it more difficult, would it be possible? First, […]
It looks like subtracting dates in .NET is done purely mechanically, ignoring such subtleties as time zones or daylight savings time. In particular, the UTC flag is ignored when subtracting […]
It is not the end of the world, but somewhat annoying: class members must always be referred by their fully qualified name, even inside class methods: type Foo = class […]
The F# language specification does not talk much about Boolean operations, but it does say that ~~~ is op_LogicalNot and &&& is a “bitwise and”, also called land. The && […]
I am reading a book on WPF (“Programming WPF” by Chris Sells if you want to know), and it says that storing “behavior” and “look” in two different places is […]
My old 80GB Maxtor D740X-6L is kaput. He was 6 years and 4 months old. May he rest in peace.
My computer crashed today and would not reboot. I.e. windows starts booting and then says it cannot find c:windowssystem32configsystem file. It suggested to boot from the install CD and use […]
A violation of rule of least astonishment: in Windows Forms the focus is automatically set to the first element in tab order. In WPF (and in ASP.NET) it’s not the […]