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I was seeing at other RSS’ that I subscribed to. What ever you bookmark with Delicious is becoming a daily blog entry. Setup is quite easy. Login to your del.icio.us account and go to Settings/Blogging/Daily Blog Posting and set it up. Here is an excerpt from del.icio.us about the parameters: job_name is the name for […]
I am receiving these spams where there is no message body or subject. Looks like the application that they have used for mass e-mailing is suppose to replace the %MESSAGE_BODY placeholder with a text that the spammer supplying. 06/03/2007 (13:53 GMT +03:00) 1.0Content-Type: text/htmlDate: %CURRENT_DATE_TIME%MESSAGE_BODY Looks like, they’ve forgot to do it. Oh well, another garbage […]
There is a bug in this code. Can you spot it? private string ReceiveLine() { const int bufferLength=1024; byte[] buffer=new byte[bufferLength+1]; // extra char for null terminator StringBuilder message=new StringBuilder(bufferLength); int bytesRead; for(;;) { bytesRead=socket.Receive(buffer, bufferLength, 0); if (bytesRead==0) break; // add null terminator buffer[bytesRead]=0; // conver char array to string message.Append(Encoding.ASCII.GetChars(buffer, 0, bytesRead)); […]
I am back from holidays and alone at home these days. It is good time to strengthen my backup methodology and get a fully automated Rsync. After long searches and trial and error, I have settled on to Rsync for the daily backup of personal data. Rsync is a *nix method of backing up data. […]
PDF dökümanlarını okumak için Adobe yerine FoxIt Reader programını kullanıyorsanız işinize yarayacak bir Outlook eklentisi. Outlook 2007’de e-posta içine eklenmiş dosyaları görüntülemek için bir “Preview” olayı var biliyorsunuz. FoxIt Reader içinde Tim‘in yazdığı bu eklentiyi kullanabilirsiniz. Link to Foxit PDF Preview Handler Technorati tags: Foxit, PDF Previewer
There are only a handful of books which I read in one go without stopping. 37 Signal’s “Getting Real” is one of them. Seth Godin put down some of the time consuming and heavy processes away from software development and calling you to get real by turning into the real problems that you have now! […]
The wait is over. After all that waiting, I have finally upgraded my old laptop to an Acer TravelMate 5625WSMi. It is a 17″, 2GB ram, 200GB HD monster compared to my old laptop which was top of the market 5 years ago with P4 2Ghz, 40Gb HD and 256 Ram. I have had upgraded […]
Jeff Attwood at Coding Horror writes about the similarities between Rock Climbing and the Software Development based on Alistair Cockburn’s game metaphor. It is true in many ways that the cooperative team effort in a game can be matched with software development. I would rather choose Scuba Diving for this metaphor. Every dive starts with […]
For the first time in my life my GMail and Outlook address books are out of sync. GMail is more up to date now. Also My Google Reader and RSS Bandit are also out of sync and more up to date one is again Google Reader. I didn’t dive into Google Apps yet but I am […]
I was looking for a mouse for my laptop and finally bought a Logitech G7 mouse. Here is the spec: 2000 dpi laser Cordless Left and Right scroll on the wheel Precision adjustment (400, 800, 2000 dpi) I strongly recommend to anyone who are looking for a mouse replacement for gaming as well as day to […]
