Category Archives: Ordinateurs

Computers and that

Lazy.

Posted on March 20, 2007 by Arthur

I read that John Backus died at age of 82 (Slashdot discussion), who happened to be the person who apparently led the team of developers that brought us FORTRAN. I recalled his name because I was studying some BNF notations … Continue reading →

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tech>he>d

Posted on March 12, 2007 by Arthur

Last week, I read about the Canadian Tax problems, which forced the Revenue centre to shutdown operations because of ‘inconsistent’ data. I hear that they expect to be up and running starting next Thursday. Earlier, via the Postgres mailing-list, I … Continue reading →

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What?

Posted on March 4, 2007 by Arthur

Computer stuff then: The first thing that caught my attention was the ‘FizzBizz’ discussion (started here). The main point of discussion is how to filter out programmers from not-programmers by asking them to write a simple program. I’ve got a … Continue reading →

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The Tech, The Science and Space

Posted on February 28, 2007 by Arthur

For no reason I was earlier up than normal, today: with the extra time I had I looked into several compiler-compilers (or parsers/scanners) targetting C#. I ran into a couple of ones: First of all there’s ANTLER (Public Domain, needs … Continue reading →

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Disk-less

Posted on February 23, 2007 by Arthur

If you work in the tech industry, you may become aware of that in the near future, people may consider you old-fashioned when you talk about 5 1/4 and 3 1/2 inch disks and disk drives. I think I’ve told … Continue reading →

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Owner-draw

Posted on February 21, 2007 by Arthur

One point with which I want to close off for today: Ownerdraw stuff in C#. Yesterday, I was comparing code to create owner-draw listboxes and comboboxes in both Delphi and C# and noticed how remarkably easy it’s to switch from … Continue reading →

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Code and gear

Posted on February 21, 2007 by Arthur

Yesterday, I received an e-mail from CodeGear that the new Delphi platform has been released (or here for fancy images). A bit expensive and I fear for the future of the Delphi environment: notice how the environment now closely seems … Continue reading →

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Sources

Posted on February 19, 2007 by Arthur

I was reading this posting at Slashdot (“OSS Music composer gaining attention”), which is about a developer who has started a Buzz-like music ‘tracker’ in C#. The part that caught my eye at the linked article was the following paragraph … Continue reading →

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Abug.

Posted on February 15, 2007 by Arthur

There’s a bug in the latest WP version that apparently puts extremely low numbers in the ‘attachment’s’ post_parent field: I haven’t figured out why this happens, but my suspicion is that the defect is in the update query in either … Continue reading →

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You asked: Satellite A100-TA9 review

Posted on February 14, 2007 by Arthur

There we go again: you ask and I’ll take a look at it. To start right off: It appears that Toshiba has been rushing to get laptops out before the official Vista release, last week. Their current A100 high-end laptop … Continue reading →

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The Tech-huh?

Posted on January 29, 2007 by Arthur

Left over stuff from the weekend: The Neuros OSD, which claims to be the first Open Source Linux Embedded Media Center for US$ 229.00 or something. It’s the buzz around now since it’s Linux-based and (evidently) a growing community of … Continue reading →

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The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion

Posted on January 28, 2007 by Arthur

I‘ve been hesitant writing about the game Oblivion (link goes to Wikipedia). The game was passed on to me by Alfons, who complained that (while amazing) the game concept didn’t really appeal to him: too long and dreary. It appears … Continue reading →

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You asked: Sharp+Develop+ODBC+example

Posted on January 28, 2007 by Arthur

I had that question appear in my logs a couple of times, and I assume, these are (beginning) .Net developers who want to have examples of accessing database servers via ODBC in C#. If you thought this was going to … Continue reading →

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