Brent Simmon’s “How to Manipulate me” post goes along VERY nicely with Mike Gunderloy’s article “How to drive developers crazy with issue tracking” that came out on the 12th… There’s definately a theme here…...
This table is now only good for a quick lookup of colors. For a few short years it was known as the WebSafe 216 colors. These were the colors that you were suposed to use on your website in order to...
Many people have asked about the differences between a URI and a URL. Even more people haven't even heard of the related URN type. This post is meant to be a much better resources and definition of the differences...
Greetz! This is a support article for my (soon-to-be) new About page. It explains one meaning of a “Code Cave”. It also shows you how to use a Code Cave that was left in Notepad to hack in some new functionality....
This is a demonstration of how to use a TempFile in a .BAT or .CMD file. The goal of this example is to determine the relative path of the current working directory and assign it to a variable. Concepts Demonstrated: Generating...
It’s been a while since I used Environment Variables in Delphi and I had to look it up. I have a loose rule that anything I have to look up, I want to share on my blog so that I can...
One problem with the TImage component is that it doesn’t natively support JPegs. JPeg just wasn’t as popular a format back in the early to mid nineties when the Delphi was first developed. Well, today that is a different story. Starting...
I have written a DLL, It needs to access a control in the instance of the application that loaded it. So, I want to get the handle of the application that is currently using that DLL. Or said a different way,...
After some fairly exaustive research and testing, I have come up with the following combined pinger list for WordPress. This took four or five other lists and eliminated duplicates and slow responders (from the US). Many lists contain entries that are...