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Programmer's Ranch: July 2014
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More beef. Less bull. For the latest articles. Programmer's Ranch no longer has its domain, so please update your bookmarks and links to programmersranch.blogspot.com. Thursday, July 24, 2014. C#: Metronome with Timers and Beeps. When you're learning to play an instrument, one thing you need to make sure of is that you're playing in sync with a regular beat. A device that helps you by producing such a regular beat is a metronome. Beep(4000, 100);. Now, suspending the program like this is not a very good ...
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Programmer's Ranch: August 2013
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More beef. Less bull. For the latest articles. Programmer's Ranch no longer has its domain, so please update your bookmarks and links to programmersranch.blogspot.com. Saturday, August 31, 2013. Update 2015-11-14: This article is out of date. Check out the latest version. Yesterday's article dealt with setting up SDL2 in Visual Studio. Article I wrote almost three years ago on my other blog; however this article is for Windows and deals with SDL2, rather than SDL1.2.x. Int main(int argc, char * argv).
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Programmer's Ranch: October 2013
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More beef. Less bull. For the latest articles. Programmer's Ranch no longer has its domain, so please update your bookmarks and links to programmersranch.blogspot.com. Wednesday, October 30, 2013. C#: Unit Testing for Old or Express Visual Studio Editions Using NUnit. I've written a few articles about unit testing so far. If you can use NUnit from within SharpDevelop. Or use MSTest directly from within Visual Studio 2010. Then you are probably writing and running unit tests pretty comfortably. Now, let's...
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Programmer's Ranch: C# Basics: Snake Game in ASCII Art (Part 3)
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More beef. Less bull. For the latest articles. Programmer's Ranch no longer has its domain, so please update your bookmarks and links to programmersranch.blogspot.com. Saturday, October 4, 2014. C# Basics: Snake Game in ASCII Art (Part 3). Among my early articles were two that showed how to write a simple ASCII art Snake game for the command line in c# (see part 1. We had already seen in " C# Threading: Bouncing Ball. In order to allow the Snake to move in a direction, we need to store that direction....
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Gigi on IT: September 2011
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Random encounters in the IT world. Sunday, September 18, 2011. Here are a few links I found useful when messing with Windows:. Create or delete a service in Windows XP. How to bring back the missing Security tab. How to show Quick Launch in Windows 7. Startup folder locations in Windows 7. How to enable ping response in windows 7. Saturday, September 17, 2011. Windows 8 Bootup: Unexpected error 0xc0000225. The unveiling of Windows 8. Shows how it's done. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
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Gigi on IT: October 2012
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Random encounters in the IT world. Tuesday, October 23, 2012. LaTeX BibTeX undefined citations. As a LaTeX beginner, a problem I ran into while trying to set up my first bibliography was that of undefined citations. I was using TeXnicCenter and opening a .tex file, which uses a .bib file to store the bibliography. I was getting question marks wherever I used cite, and the build log reported the following:. LaTeX Warning: Citation `testcitation' on page 1 undefined on input line 1. No file test.bbl.
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Gigi on IT: LibreOffice blows... its chance at credibility
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Random encounters in the IT world. Tuesday, July 23, 2013. LibreOffice blows. its chance at credibility. I have long believed that the open source movement tends to produce higher quality software than commercial companies. However, many people seem to think that LibreOffice sucks. Recently, Andreas Grech. Posted the following screenshot of the LibreOffice updates window, on Facebook:. Then, just yesterday, I uninstalled LibreOffice because I wasn't using it, and got this:. View my complete profile.
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Gigi on IT: Finding and deleting Thumbs.db in subfolders
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Random encounters in the IT world. Friday, August 30, 2013. Finding and deleting Thumbs.db in subfolders. I found this post. Really useful for recursively locating and deleting Thumbs.db files in subfolders. This comes in handy especially when you're checking whether two folders are equal, based on size, but there are lots of Thumbs.db files running around that make life difficult. In a nutshell, first go to the folder you're inspecting in cmd. Then, locate Thumbs.db files like this:.
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Gigi on IT: January 2013
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Random encounters in the IT world. Sunday, January 27, 2013. C Templates: Separating declaration from implementation. I found out the hard way that it isn't as easy to separate declaration and implementation of template classes (via .h and .cpp files) as it is for regular classes. In fact, it's not even possible to do so. The following questions and answers on StackOverflow shed some light on why this limitation exists:. Why can templates only be implemented in the header file? Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
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Gigi on IT: August 2013
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Random encounters in the IT world. Friday, August 30, 2013. Finding and deleting Thumbs.db in subfolders. I found this post. Really useful for recursively locating and deleting Thumbs.db files in subfolders. This comes in handy especially when you're checking whether two folders are equal, based on size, but there are lots of Thumbs.db files running around that make life difficult. In a nutshell, first go to the folder you're inspecting in cmd. Then, locate Thumbs.db files like this:.