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Blog, page 59

page 59 of 79

Continuing through the writing archive.

Development · 2 min

Arduino Robots

Notes on dusting off an Arduino, bolting an Adafruit motor shield to an old RC car, and getting it driving under code.

#Arduino#Robots#Furniture#Video#Code
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Drinking · 1 min

Black or Red

Rules for Black or Red, a card-based drinking game where guessing the next card wrong means you drink.

#Recipe#Ideas
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Drinking · 1 min

Beat The Barman

Rules for Beat The Barman, a bar drinking game where you finish your shot before the bartender returns with change.

#Recipe#Ideas
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Dice · 1 min

Barbudi

Rules for Barbudi, a two-player Mexican casino dice game where shooter and fader bet on which doubles come up first.

#Ideas#Tutorial#Coins
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Dice · 1 min

Aces 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.

#Coins#Ideas#Tutorial
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Development · 2 min

internet robot zombies

A plain-language take on form-spam bots, the botnets that run them, and why people buying the spam keeps it alive.

#Robots#Security#Journal
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Development · 1 min

How 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.

#C++#Code#Tutorial
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Development · 1 min

Add/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.

#Tutorial#Code#C++
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Development · 1 min

Dump a CListCtrl

C++ snippet that walks an MFC CListCtrl and writes every row and column out to a CSV file.

#Code#C++#Tutorial
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Bookmarks · 1 min

links for 2009-05-05

One bookmark for the day: the Stack Overflow thread on the best comments ever found in source code.

#Bookmark#Code
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