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Blog, page 53

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Continuing through the writing archive.

Development · 1 min

Cakephp - Session->setFlash is not working any more.

Fix for missing CakePHP setFlash messages after 1.2: the template needs an explicit session check and flash call.

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Drinking · 1 min

Ice Cube Raft Race

A drinking game where each player fills an ice cube tray with beer and races to suck every slot dry through a straw.

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Development · 1 min

Cakephp - Using the same view for multiple controler functions

How to reuse one CakePHP view across multiple controller actions by disabling autoRender and calling render() with the template path.

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Dice · 1 min

High

Rules for High, the simplest two-dice game: each player rolls and the highest total takes the pot.

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Dice · 1 min

Golf

Rules for Golf, a three-dice game also called Dragon Slayer where every non-double roll counts as a stroke over eighteen rounds.

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Tips · 1 min

Convert HEX string to BYTE array, bug.

A C++ ConvertHexToBytes function posted as a find-the-bug puzzle using strtok_s and sscanf_s.

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Dice · 1 min

Fourteens

Rules for Fourteens, a ten-dice tavern banking game from the 1930s Midwest paying eight-to-one on fourteen hits of the point.

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Dice · 1 min

Fifty

Rules for Fifty, a quick two-dice game where doubles score five, double sixes score twenty-five, and double threes wipe you out.

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Development · 1 min

winnt.h(5545) : error C2146: syntax error : missing ; before identifier ContextRecord

Fix for the winnt.h C2146 ContextRecord compile error: include windows.h before the offending header.

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Drinking · 1 min

Disarm The Bomb

A drinking game where four beer cans get taped into a cube, taped to your hands, and you have ten minutes to drink them.

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