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Humble in the presence of greatness (or how to feel inadequate really quickly)
Last week I had the pleasure to attend a conference organised by Cambridge Wireless at Cambridge University Møller Centre, Cambridge. The event was free to […]
Banks are clueless about online security
During November I met Dave Collins from Software Promotions. I saw him presenting two talks on effective Adwords marketing and common mistakes you can make […]
DLL Version Finder
Sometimes you need to find all locations of a particular DLL on your machine and then check the version numbers. Use Windows Search then right […]
Problems when subclassing controls
I’m developing a graph control for use in our Memory Validator software tool. Tracking a mouse One of the requirements was that we need to […]
Don’t try this at home – custom control time sink
There are times when writing a custom control will waste your time like nothing on earth. I’m going to share with you a particularly painful […]
59 seconds with Eric Ries
Yesterday I had the pleasure to visit TechHub to listen to Eric Ries talk about the lean startup. Like some others attendees I could not […]
How to sell your company to Microsoft
The business leaders network has an excellent post by Eric Sink about how he sold Teamprise to Microsoft. Great read. Eric is the author of […]
Removing annoying ‘ceil’ : attributes not present on previous declaration warning C4985
A bug in Visual Studio 2008 when compiling for 64 bit code results in a rather odd warning message. The message is typically shown for […]
How to read embedded data from a resource
In the previous article, I showed you how to embed data into a custom resource in your executable. In this article, I’m going to show […]
How to embed data into a resource
In this article, I will demonstrate how you can embed data into a Windows PE format executable (EXE or DLL). At the end, I will […]