Today, I got another inquiry at Facebook. “Can I ask if you’re the Arnold Gamboa who worked at Manila Hotel?” I know where the question’s going. I’ve got similar inquiries before, and much more than the Arnold Gamboa that worked at Manila Hotel, he is actually, as I was told, a…

Yan Cui in theburningmonk.com

Dec 29, 2009

The C# Dispose Pattern

The Dispose pattern is something we’ve all seen before, and it’s so tried and tested most of us (especially myself!) have been more than happy to apply without question.

Whilst reading various blogs/articles I came across some differing opinion about this well…

Luke Puplett in lukepuplett

Jul 17, 2009

WPF — How to Veto a Windows Shutdown

…(even though you shouldn’t really).

The .NET Framework offers an event and a boolean argument property which is supposed to let you cancel the shutdown, but it often gets ignored and anyway, it doesn’t let you…

Chris Alvares in chrisalvares

Mar 25, 2009

Creating an iPhone Daemon — Part 4

This is part four of the blog series “Creating an iPhone Daemon”, for part three please click this link

This is the coolest part of the series. Up until now, all the code can only be used as a standalone application that can only run if the…

Yusuf Erdogan in Think out of the net

Feb 3, 2009

Solving Sudoku with Assembly Code

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Who wants to solve the popular sudoku game with assembly code while there are lots of high-level languages? Yes, I did. This was one of my home experiments and I wanted to…

xster in xster

Mar 31, 2009

Qt with C++ or Python Tutorial

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This is a collection of tutorials I found useful to get into the Qt framework. Being more used to the Microsoft standard, I have…

Chris Alvares in chrisalvares

Mar 25, 2009

Creating an iPhone Daemon — Part 2

Here is part two of the blog series “Creating an iPhone Daemon”, for part one please click this link

As I said in part 1, we will be creating the DLocationDelegate class.
With most daemons, you do a task like read a file, do something with…

Rezaul Hoque

Sep 21, 2009

A simple Distributed Hash Table (DHT)

A simple Distributed Hash Table (DHT) can be used for storing key value pairs in a distributed storage. The DHT design that will be discussed in this post is simple but entirely sufficient to serve the purpose of a distributed hash table. Given a static network of…

Chris Alvares in chrisalvares

Mar 25, 2009

Creating an iPhone Daemon — Part 3

This is part three of the blog series “Creating an iPhone Daemon”, for part one please click this link

In the last part of the series, we created the header file for our DLocationDelegate class, now lets create the implementation file…

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