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An old Devlog…
I was looking over some of my old project folders, and I found a 54-page (well, 54K text file) development log (devlog.txt) for my VB6 version of [...]
The Null Object Pattern
Another programming related post here, finally. Today, I want to ramble about the “Null Object Pattern”. I’m sure we’ve all seen [...]
Unexpectedly Comedic blog posts
We often hear marketing speak, and management speak- usually it’s just a bunch of meaningless words. Sometimes this type of stuff can be used to [...]
VB6 Colour Class
It’s been some time since I’ve used VB6 but I thought I might look through my old classes to see if there were any useful gems. One my my [...]
The overuse of literal devices…
“Hacker”. The word means something completely different today then it did 14 years ago. One can only guess that it started with some insipid [...]
Phrase Examination III: “Cute as a button”
In yet another installment of my “Phrase Examination” series, which is only by complete coincidence entirely contiguous, I will analyze the [...]
Confusion over Bitness and applications
Ever since The release, and subsequent consumption of 64-bit operating systems by the general public, there has been quite some confusion over exactly what [...]
Parsing INI Files
If there is one thing that no two Operating Systems can seem to agree on, it’s how best to store configuration information. Linux programs generally [...]
YA2012P (Yet another 2012 Post)
Alright, so I sort of touched on this subject before, but I feel I need to revisit it for no reason. Also, because I can do whatever I damn well please. [...]
The deadly Microconda snake
I previous discussed the dangers of the deadly giant Earthworm. Recently, a new discovery has been made, the tiny Anaconda, which has been dubbed the [...]