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Blog, page 57

page 57 of 76

Continuing through the writing archive.

Junk · 1 min

You may call me /b/

A B-heavy Urban Dictionary definition of /b/, the public bulletin board built of brilliance and barbarity.

#Bookmark#Journal
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Tips · 1 min

Wordpress, Creating a RSS feed for each category.

The undocumented WordPress URL pattern for getting a per-category RSS feed: /?feed=rss2&cat=ID.

#Web#PHP#Tutorial
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Tips · 1 min

C++ name mangling hell

Why exported C++ functions show up with mangled names like FirstGetBuf@US&NP and how extern "C" fixes GetProcAddress.

#Code#C++#Tutorial
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Tips · 1 min

How to Move/Backup/Load a SVN repository

Three svnadmin commands to dump, move, and reload an SVN repository onto a new server.

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Tips · 1 min

Default action for vista power button

How to change the Vista Start menu power button from Sleep to Shut Down so a closed laptop stops draining the battery.

#Tutorial
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Development · 1 min

What time is it

A PHP script that auto-generates 79,206 timezone-comparison pages for cities like Vancouver, Paris, and New York.

#Code#Vancouver#Web#PHP
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Development · 1 min

Why is everything so plain?

After 15 redesigns, the 16th strips the site down to a clean simple template that just works.

#Web#Journal
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Development · 1 min

The procedure entry point_except_handler4_common could not be located in the dynamic link library msvcrt.dll

Notes on fixing the msvcrt.dll _except_handler4_common error caused by a Vista DLL landing on Windows XP.

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Tips · 1 min

Your daily WTF

A code-review WTF: a sleep loop written as for(int i=0; i<PAUSE_LENGTH; i++) { i++; }.

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Tips · 1 min

Insert new post in to wordpress from php

PHP snippet that builds a post object and calls wp_insert_post to add a new entry to WordPress 2.5.1.

#Web#PHP#Tutorial#Code
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