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I had about 60 apparently corrupted photos on a CompactFlash card the other evening. It might have been due to Lightroom going berserk, but it was more likely from my pulling the card reader out of the computer without ejecting it first. The photos wouldn...
I've grown fond of the JavaScript || idiom: function FrobImage(img) { var width = img.width || 400; var height = img.height || 300; // ... } FrobImage({height: 100, name: "example.png"}); If img.width exists and it's truthy , then width = img.width ;...
Picture this. An external USB hard drive plugged in to a machine running Win64. The OS has virtualized the underlying transport so that it's essentially indistinguishable from an internal IDE, SCSi, or SATA drive. Call the machine, Boss, and the USB drive...
I've been meaning to play around with Greasemonkey for a couple of years. Greasemonkey is a Firefox extension that allows users to install scripts that make on-the-fly changes to the look and feel of third-party websites. For example, adding price comparisons...
I use Clipboard.NET as a clipboard manager on Windows. It stores the last few entries sent to the clipboard. There's one problem: the default hotkey is Ctrl+Comma, which also happens to be an important key for Outlook (previous message). I figured out...
I have updated the Win64 port of Vim . It now includes a working installer, a working "Edit with Vim" shell extension, and the first 195 patches for Vim 7.0. Get it while it's hot!
I have been cleaning up some issues with the Win64 port of Vim , including the Edit with Vim shell extension not working very well. When I built the shell extension with VS 2005 on x86, I would get the following whenever I right-clicked in Explorer: Microsoft...
In my post about Printf Tricks a couple of years ago, I mentioned that " %n is dangerous and disabled by default in Visual Studio 2005." I got email today from someone who was porting a large codebase to VS 2005. He was getting an assert from %n and he...
I have two blogs, my personal blog and my technical blog . The technical blog is a small subset of the personal blog containing posts that are more likely to be of interest to the techie audience at weblogs.asp.net . Lately, the comments in one post at...
I mentioned last week that my parents have no aptitude for computers . My father emailed me with a list of computer woes; notably, he was getting messages about no firewall. There was no way I was going to get to the bottom of the issue just by email...
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