Ah yes, the fine art of globalization. Let us first examine the subtle distinction between these two infamous concepts as given by our trusty friend, the Wikipedia: Internationalization is the adaptation of products for potential use virtually everywhere, while localization is the addition of special features for use in a specific locale. So, i18n is …
Author Archives: basp
FreeBSD
A day before FreeBSD 6.0 was installed we hooked up a new 320 GB Western Digital external USB hard drive. This puppy came FAT32 preformatted but I don’t like FAT so quickly re-formatted to NTFS (not thinking about the fact that a n*x OS might not really like this… However, I was able to mount …
Xorg
After getting Blackbox up and running and installing Firefox I came to realize my MX700 mouse wheel was not responding. I rarely actually touch the scrollbars anymore these days and having to do so while working in X is not an option for me so I immediately set out to fix this. After a lengthy …
FreeBSD
The whole story will follow later but for now I just want to post a quick reminder to myself about a “su” problem I just finally solved. After installing 6.0 when first trying to “su” I got the “Sorry” (Bad SU etc…) error so I messed around with the rights on the “su” binary (/usr/bin/su). …
Asynchronous
Note to self: when executing invoking a method asynchronously and using a callback keep in mind that the callback is not executed in the same thread as the caller. At least, it seems so because when I inspected the C1TrueDBGrid’s InvokeRequired property during a debug session on a breakpoint in a callback the property was …
Thank
Well, it seems “meticulous” in combination with “geek” are ranking pretty much in regard to my site. I guess a lot of people have reacted to my rant about “static typing”. No wonder because at that time I was completely off about everything. Too bad not too many people tried to educate me however – …
Boo!
Yesterday and today I’ve been increasingly gripped by a wonderful language called Boo. AFAIK, it’s a relatively new “wrist friendly language for the CLR”. It’s insprired by Python and though I was very interrested in Python for a short while a long time ago I’ve pretty much been indifferent towards it most of the time. …
A
Lately, one of our shop’s foundation software products has been showing definite signs of decay (a terrible case of broken windows that is). It’s this bad that even management concluded that we could start developing from scratch a brand new version. All the while maintaining and upgrading the current package as it is. Monday, development …
Web
Yesterday I finally found some time to try out Ruby On Rails and in one word: amazing. Two words? Amazingly fun! I was rolling within 2 minutes… However, even though I wish for it, there’s little hope I’m able to start developing in a friendly dynamic environment like Smalltalk, Ruby or Python. Ours is a …
DateTime.Parse
Today I had an awful lot of trouble trying to parse a european datetime string (“16-09-2005”) into a DateTime instance. I used the following code and got a FormatException when running this on the server: DateTime date = DateTime.Parse(“16-09-2005”); Usually, the DateTime.Parse method does a pretty good job but now and then it needs a …