Category Archives: Technology
Error 1 error LNK1168: cannot open for writing
I was writing a simple C program to print “HelloWorld” while using the new improved Visual Studio 2010. Program compiled fine on the first run but I started to get a weird linking error (see title of post) on recompiling later on. I singled out the problem to a service in Windows 7. Earlier in […]
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Bug in Google Images! (as of 3rd Sept 2010)
Google Images (images.google.com) has a mighty bug! Let’s try to reproduce the error by searching for the keyword “matrix” When images.google.com has finished loading, we type in “matrix” in the search textbox and click on “Search” eventually. Relevant Images are displayed indeed. But now we have changed our mind and wish to search for the […]
Fetch Blog Data from RSS link
As part of rebuilding my website from scratch, I was longing to display the titles (and links) of my recent blog articles. There are many RSS fetcher implementations online but I wanted to make one by myself (Breath of fresh air 😛 ). Initially, all I could think of is using a Web Service to […]
Do you remember the online meteor shower???
Anyone who used a computer in the mid 90s should remember this logo! 🙂 As far as I remember, the Netscape spinner was far superior to IE v4.0. And when you try to compare the latest breed of browsers in terms of functionality, Firefox is slow (as an app not as a browser) and chrome […]
Custom Wrapper Class for Dictionary component – Flex
I was developing a Flex module earlier yesterday and somehow felt the need of an efficient data structure for look-up purpose. Array and ArrayCollection are just not good enough and the default implementation of Dictionary as part of Flex API is a no-brainer. So, I decided to create a wrapper functionality similar to the Dictionary […]
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