Blog, page 56
page 56 of 76Continuing through the writing archive.
Barbudi
Rules for Barbudi, a two-player Mexican casino dice game where shooter and fader bet on which doubles come up first.
Read postAces In The Pot
Rules for Aces In The Pot, a two-dice gambling game where 1s feed the pot and 6s pass coins to your neighbour.
Read postinternet robot zombies
A plain-language take on form-spam bots, the botnets that run them, and why people buying the spam keeps it alive.
Read postHow to find the text column header of a CListCtrl in MFC
Short MFC helper that pulls the text of a CListCtrl column header by index using the underlying CHeaderCtrl.
Read postAdd/Remove operation is impossible, the code element Cxxx is read only
Fix for the Visual Studio error when adding a control event handler: delete the .ncb and .suo files, then rebuild.
Read postDump a CListCtrl
C++ snippet that walks an MFC CListCtrl and writes every row and column out to a CSV file.
Read postlinks for 2009-05-05
One bookmark for the day: the Stack Overflow thread on the best comments ever found in source code.
Read postHow to create a menu and submenu on right click in MFC
MFC snippet that builds a right-click context menu with a nested submenu using CMenu and TrackPopupMenu.
Read postTroubleshooting CakePHP
A running list of CakePHP 1.2 fixes, starting with HtmlHelper::file moving to FormHelper.
Read postTesting writing from Windows Live Writer
First impressions of Windows Live Writer as a desktop blog client for WordPress, with categories, live preview, and source editing.
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