(Monday 11/9/09 6:08 pm)
The
Owen Outlook
Stories,
thoughts, diatribes, mindless digressions, on modern technology and
gadgets of every kind.
Startling
developments:
Computer
Junk: The Nifty and Not-So-Nifty
Programming,
Hardware,
Graphics,
Webbery, Networks: The Owen Techy Adventures & Dubious Opinions
- The Backslash-Quote Feature:
The Greatest Bug of All?
- Joel
on
Software; one of these relentless know-it-alls, he’s at least
as annoying as me — but is sometimes
right! ... And he’s actually made million$....
- How
I Edited Windows Icons
with some free icon editors.
- How I RS232ed
in
Win32 C++. ... + JG32:
talk to your obsolete
RS232 gadgets with Delphi source....
- VirtualBox
and Computer Mashups....
- The
latest thing: Owen whines
about Ajax....
- What’s
up with
NET/C++
interop in
Visual Studio? - INI
files for C++?
- My
Favorite C++ Features. + How
to sort: in C++! With STL strings!
Without case sensitivity! + the dreaded Objective
C
of the Macintosh....
- Where
Has All the
Net
Gone? - CreateProcess
’n’ Me: Adventures
with Quotes in XP.
- Owen
enters the 90s: Cadsoft
Eagle schematic capture....
- Deep
Thoughts: Anders
Hejlsberg
and the Circle of Scripts.
- Goodbye Dr.
Dobbs? And
now ... My very
own Dr.
Dobbs Letter Page on CLR multi-tasking
... and, as it turns-out, the exciting new CLR
LINQ feature...
- Read
Linux Files in
Windows! Read/write Diskette Images!
The Newbigin utilities. ...
Or the XP linux-mounting fs-driver!
- The question of the
age:
How to make middle-button
click tabs work in Firefox.
- And
what to do when
steals
your Firefox search
control. - How
to make your winders browser
use
your email program.
- How
Can I See What
My Servers
and
Pages and Junk are Saying to Each Other? (Wireshark née
Ethereal)
- And
how do I find broken HTML
links? ... And
now — the JGWRAP
program....
- The
Semware
Editor
(“TSE” née “qedit”)
- A
NET
System.IO.Ports.SerialPort
demo project.
- Enormous Excitement: Linux
vs Windows vs GetTickCount
vs. times().
- Nobody
uses EMACS! ... Do they?
- Free
free
68HC11, 80C166, 8048
assembler / linker package w/source.
- And
my little Sidekick Redux ASCII
code table....
- Shrinking
EXE files: the fabulous
UPX!
- Borland
Kylix and the
astonishing OwenShow....
(Or its doddering crazy uncle in the attic, the MSDOS OwenView!
—
or, Our Directories, Our Selves)
Also the excellent book Kylix
Power Solutions... Also the exciting “drive
C:
doesn’t exist” Delphi 7 CLX SaveDialog
’n’ Windows 98 bug...
- Delphi
5 versus XP’s
ntdll.DbgBreakPoint
- DirectMySqlObjects:
EZ
Delphi database. ... And MySQL
Considered Harmful...
+ Postgres, SQLite
alternatives.
- The
UML,
CMM, Blah Blah. + Owen’s
Giant Project
Theory.... (The Guru Plague) ... + Where’d
the Diagrams
Go?
- Delphi database components:
Scam — or Mistake?
- And
What Was All That Stuff
About Software Components?
- Delphi
and Large Fonts and
Disappearing Forms.
- Owen’s
Guru Score: EZ
Delphi assign.
Etc.
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