If you’ve been saying the above statement before, this program is for you.
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Tomorrow I’m handing in my final project for my CS studies. This project is built in C#, and I was looking for a way to automatically create documentation that will aid browsing and understanding the main classes and their functions.
A friend had told me about Sandcastle and I looked it up. Sandcastle is a project by Microsoft, that is intended to create MSDN-style documentation from .NET assemblies…
Zeke’s comment about Wikislate being down has inspired me to fix and upgrade my script.
I have also decided to put it under a new domain of its own – wikislate.com
There’s a bunch of new features (because the old script was so basic…) that focus on ease of use.
Wikislate is a tool for translating nouns, and was designed for translation of technical terms. It uses Wikipedia as its data-source and automates a process that I was doing manually for a while, and is described in elzr’s blog and in my introduction of the old version.
Enjoy =)
make some use out of the useless scroll lock!
a tale about how I hacked a mint keyboard backlight when I was supposed to study.
I have to admit this is quite a dull subject, but I thought it might help some guys( and gals! ) out there.
I am working on a C# project for uni, and while fighting some pesky bugs, I decided I should get more organized and have a small “unit testing” framework built for it.
I had a need for random generated Unicode strings, and quick googling turned up no results. Instead of doing some broaded searching, I decided I could learn more by writing my own code: Read the rest of this entry >>
If you ever used pirated software, you had probably used a keygen at some point. It could have also been a patcher, or a cracked installer, and sometimes even a trainer. Many times, these pieces of software are more than just a standard form with two text boxes.
… I’m surprised with what I’m able to do when I’m supposed to be doing homework.
Here’s my latest project, it’s less than 24 hours old =)
I’ve always wanted a looper effect, like the boss loopstation, mainly because the online demos were so neat. Being a bass player, I though it would help me practice with drum loops, but it’s just not worth the money unless you’re going to use it live. I ended up playing drum samples on my PC and playing along on the bass.
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…and why developing for Windows is not fun.
Behold, a one-click way to convert your videos to a format playable by your iPod!
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Well, here’s my latest project. I’ve started it to provide my sister with a simple way to convert her videos, so that she could finally watch them on her shiny 6G iPod.
The result is this simple ffmpeg frontend, built to run on Windows, with the goal of ease of use.
At this point it is rather limited, and I’m not sure if I will ever work on it again.
I’ve actually continued working on it after the uploaded build, but I have come to a dead-end with the Win32 API.
I chose to work with the bare API because I did not want to do it in C#, and, well, as far as I know, there are no many other options.
Why not C#? Even though the .NET Framework is widely available, I thought it was too much for a couple of buttons that launch an exeternal application.
I did not want to use MFC, because I’m unfamilar with it, and last time I used it it felt over-complex and messy. It also requires additional Dlls, or huge executable.
So Win32 API it was. I fired up Emacs (my new tool of the trade) and started coding.
As long as my code was a mess (i.e. C style coding, global vars etc ), everything was smooth and fun. I then wanted to add a system tray notification icon, and thought it would be
a good idea to create it inside a class, for use in later projects. This is where things started to break. I spent some hours researching methods to connect my window procedure to
members of my class. The solution involved an assembly hack. While interesting, I wanted nothing of it.
During my research, I came across WTL, which sounds just like what I was looking for. If/When I continue this project and/or develop another Windows application, it’s going to be in WTL.
Though I did find the lack of documentation annoying.
As a side note, I have to find out what utorrent used.
That’s it for now, hope someone will find it useful.
I have just received a push-pull potentiometer that I had bought on ebay. It’s a hybrid between a potentiometer and a DPDT switch. It looks like this:
I installed it in my Fender Highway-1 Jazz Bass, in place of the regular tone potentiometer, and wired the switch part of it to change between two different wiring modes for the pickups:
I used the following diagram that I had found online:
It took me about 45 minutes to assemble, because soldering was a bit tricky, and I forgot one connection after fastening all the screws back.
I have no proper way to record my bass on the computer, so no sound samples for now. All I can say is that I’m very pleased with this new sound of my bass. I still have to try it on a serious amp to get a better idea of the new tone.
If you own a Jazz Bass, not afraid to void your warranty, and can solder (or get someone to solder it for you), I’d suggest you to try this mod.
I’ve wanted to build this kind of effect for a long time. This was actually the reason I got my 4066 ICs half a year ago, when I visited my electronic components shop.
A Tremolo is an effect unit that modulates the amplitude of the guitar signal, usually in a triangular waveform. This version uses a square waveform, for a more switching, chopping kind of effect. This kind of effect can be heard in the beginning of Plant Telex by Radiohead. Tom Morello of Rage Against the Machine uses this kind of effect too, he, however, uses a “kill switch” on his guitar, which he controls manually.
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