How to disable the Windows Shutdown Tracker Dialog
Rick Strahl posted a great tip on how to disable the Windows Shutdown Tracker Dialog. That’s the dialog that Serer 2003 and Server 2008 make you respond to w...
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Delphi Win32 gets a TStringBuilder class
The next version of Delphi, code named “Tiburon”, is getting some cool new features. One of these will be the TStringBuilder class and Andreano Lanusse (a C...
How to shoot yourself in the foot with regular expressions
I had some Delphi code that is used a user entered text string as a key. After the user entered in the text, my code would force it to uppercase and strip ou...
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I follow Raymond Chen’s blog (required reading if you program for Win32) and the other day he had a link to a story that was both hysterical and scary. My f...
Playing with a new toy, a GPS device
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