01 May, 2010
Posted by: DJMatty In: Geek Post
After reading a bit more about Mercurial as a distributed source code control system, and discovering that it will co-exist with git I decided to try it out, so I could see which I prefer. The jury is still out at the moment, but I also decided to install mercurial on my windows home server [...]
Been using Git for a while now and getting to like it. Found out some more info about some of the commands. The commands I gave previously for adding p4merge as the merge tool didn’t do quite what I was expecting, and didn’t actually work :) After expecting git to use this merge tool whenever [...]
With the weather being a bit rubbish the past few weekends I have been geeking out (in addition to playing Uncharted 1 & 2) and been learning wpf, mvvm pattern and I decided to start using an open source source code control system. After some deliberation I picked Git (I did look at subversion and [...]
01 Oct, 2009
I’m surprised at how much I am using my iPhone nowadays, and what for. I’ve managed to steer clear of eBooks for a long time, being a firm believer of having a nice chunk of mashed up tree in my hand is part of getting into a good book. However, I have recently installed iPhone [...]
The difference between Control.Invalidate, Control.Update and Control.Refresh: Control.Invalidate() Adds a region or a control to the update region of a window Control.Update() Sends WM_PAINT to the window if the windows update region is not empty (sends directly to wndproc bypassing the apps message queue) Control.Refresh() Calls invalidate and then update String format alignment enums The [...]
Thought I’d start posting tips and reminders here for things about coding I have found useful, mainly as a place where I can store them so I can find them again when I have forgotten them in the near future :) So this one is the location of the actual compact framework assemblies on your [...]
It’s been an interesting weekend, and it’s been a geeky weekend. It started on Friday with my new PC locking up a few times, and blue screening. It had been working nicely all week, and then starts playing up all of a sudden on Friday. So Saturday morning I get up and can’t turn it [...]
Last Thursday the parts for my new Behemoth of a PC arrived and I spent a few hours that night building it. The CoolerMaster Cosmos S full tower case is massive, and has 3 fans mounted in the case and a massive fan on the side door. It has some cool features though, it’s all [...]
Well after an evening and a morning of using IMAP in Outlook 2007 I got sick of it and have gone back to POP3. If you set up an IMAP account it forces you to use a new set of folders for the mail, which I can understand as it is syncing with the server [...]
I’ve been busy geeking out today, scanning in my old uni final year project report that I found in my boxes of stuff. Managed to get the auto document feeder to work so I didn’t need to do it page by page. I decided to keep the free printer that came with the laptop, and [...]
