Several C++ singleton implementations
This article offers some insight into singleton design-pattern. The singleton pattern is a design pattern used to implement the mathematical concept of a singleton, by restricting the instantiation of...
View ArticleSubclassWindow() method issues in projects base on MFC Feature Pack
The Problem Trying to paint a background image into client area of a MDI application build in VC++ 6.0 to VC++ 2005 IDE it’s not a difficult task. In case you need, you can find easily good references....
View ArticleSome experiences with the last world-wide WordPress brute force attack
As you most probably know, this website uses WordPress. Last Saturday, trying to access the site admin area I was facing with an error generated by too many redirects. Having other things to do, I...
View ArticleHTML files generation using XML and XSLT with Microsoft XML DOM API
This short tutorial shows how easy it’s to generate reports in HTML pages using Microsoft XML DOM API together XML and XSLT. XML (Extensible Markup Language) became a universal standard of encoding...
View ArticleGetting Table’s indexes experiences – workaround
Trying to get table indexes information in SQL Server 2012 I identified a strange situation within a specific method that I was using so long but it was not acting as expected in one situation....
View ArticleExperiences with Adobe Acrobat/Reader Plug-ins
I wrote this document after a challenging experience I had recently within an Adobe Acrobat/Reader plugin creation. Even if the Adobe’s SDK it’s nicely documented within PDF files, one of the major...
View ArticleThe Chameleon Pathnames
The title might be as well “When the pathname is not what it has to be”. The experience of developing plugins for Adobe Acrobat/Reader reserved me different surprises, surprises that made the task more...
View Articleapt-get and the static IP challenges within Raspbian OS
This is the story of my first experiences with Raspberry PI 2 card computer. Back in March I bought a new toy, a Raspberry PI 2. I have downloaded the Raspbian OS ISO image, wrote it on the microSD...
View ArticleFinally, I got Windows 10
This is a story of how I got over a blocking situation within some Windows 10 OS installs on my Samsung laptop.
View ArticleThe First Hackathon Experience #HackTM2016
Some inside from my first hackathon experience, the #HackTM2016 from Timisoara.
View ArticleProcess Status Analysis – the first steps
I am pleased to announce my first cross-platform and open source project, the Process Status Analysis tool, available on GitHub. The Process Status Analysis (psa) is a command line tool that offer some...
View ArticleopenSSL vs. vcpkg – some strange experiences
Some unexpected experiences caused by the fact the vcpkg C++ package manager is still based on OpenSSL 1.0.2.
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