Writing An Active Record Class
As the Active Record class has become increasingly popular due to it’s wild success in Ruby on Rails, it seems as though every framework has an implementation of it. It is no surprise that inside the...
View ArticleZend_Pdf_Cell Proposal
After a few weeks of downtime, and helpful input and comments from my readers, I have finally submitted my Zend_Framework CLA and authored a Zend_Pdf_Cell proposal! Please feel free to read it and...
View ArticleRunning AIR applications w/o installing AIR on Linux
Recently, Adobe released an AIR client for Linux. Some people complained about the need for root privileges for not only installing AIR itself, but also for installing AIR applications. If you are...
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Visual Studio Cannot Enumerate Resources in the Executable
Ever get the following error message when opening a PE file? Turns out that if you have custom resource types, the names of the resources in that type cannot be lower case. As you see in this example,...
View ArticleAlice Does, or It Does?
Over the past few weeks while developing the next version of the Windows Live Installer, I have had discussions with other developers over different parts of the system. Each and every time we have...
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An Overview of the Windows Live Installer
Over the past six months, I have been working on the Windows Live Installer, and I thought some readers of my blog would like to know some of the technical details that are involved in creating our...
View ArticleBe scared of doing arithmetic
Without a doubt, reading Secure Coding in C and C++ made me quite scared of coding securely. In particular, all the ways you can mess up integer security. Ever since I had read that book, it has...
View ArticleIHTMLDocument2 hyperlinks open in new window
I spent (most) of the day at work today trying to figure out why my IHTMLDocument2′s hyperlinks were opening in new windows, instead of the current window it was in. Finally, I stumbled upon this:...
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Installing SQL Server 2008 Express Edition
I have been wanting to get back into developing my big project I did in my college years, which was basically a LAMP application. This time, I wanted to set it up as a WIMP environment (har har...
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Resource Hacker Can’t Export Binary Resources
So I came across a rather interesting problem today. Basically, I need to embed a Microsoft Cabinet file into an executable. This is done in an automated type of way, so in order to verify that it...
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