Hi everyone. Just a quick post to let you know that my new PC has arrived and it is stunning, not to mention fast. It has: A 64GB SSD primary hard drive A 2TB secondary hard drive 12GB of 1600MHz RAM An Nvidia GeForce GTS 250 graphics card An i7-930 processor And much more!
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New PC!
Hi everyone! Well. I have finally ordered my new PC and it is going to be a monster. It will have 12GB of 1600 MHz memory, a solid state hard drive and liquid cooling as an i7 processor. I can’t wait for it to come back, it should be here sometime next week. I will …
Busy, Busy!
Hi everyone! Sorry for the lack of blog posts recently. I have been quite busy with CCC related work. Now that we’ve sent off the 90k bid to the CoalFields Regeneration Trust and the 45k bid to the Rhonda Trust I have a little more free time. I will be getting a new computer in …
Localization using WPF and C#
For anyone who is interested I have posted a tutorial on building a localizable application using C# and WPF here for anyone who is interested. I will hopefully post a copy here in time but for the moment I see no need to duplicate the content. If you have any comments, suggestions or improvements please …
CSIT and Network Information
Hi guys! Network information is a complex subject at the best of times and simplifying it for the average user is no simple feat. Even harder it seems is actually writing code to get this information programatically! I was quite disappointed to find that there was no simple way to get an IP address via …
Thoughts on Localization with WPF
Hi everyone! I just thought I would stop by and share some thoughts with you on localization with WPF. I have spent the last few hours working on making CSIT localization before I add to much content to make it worth while. This is the first time I have ever made the effort to make …
Stupid Mistakes
I spent a good few hours yesterday trying to figure out why my code to extract the Windows key from the registry was not working. The key was there but the code would not read it! It was infuriating. After taking a little time to sit back and think about the problem – it dawned …
Firefox, YouTube and WebM – The Experiment
Hi everyone I have just spent a little while playing with the new WebM and HTML5 experimental support in Mozilla Firefox and I mus say. I am quite impressed. The 760p video samples I have seen are truly quite impressive. I would suggest that anyone capable should get their hands on a browser with experimental …
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Calling the __cpuid MSVC function via C# a DLL Pinvoke (C++, C#)
Here is the latest piece of code I wish to share with everyone since I run into this myself, I am sure others will be interested also. The C++ Part Firstly you will need to create a new DLL project in Visual Studio. You will also need to add this line into the cpp file …
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Apple’s HTML5 Demos – Safari Only. No Other Browsers Welcome?
After reading a very interesting blog post by Rob Sayre from Mozilla I was pretty irritated by Apple’s irresponsibility. HTML5 is a cross-browser standard but Apple are using it as a marketing tool to try and peg their own browser by making it seem like other browsers are not compatible – when in actuality they …
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