Archive for the 'Programming' Category
Best Text Editor Ever
June 28th, 2006With its latest release (7.0) my favorite text editor, GVIM, has resolved one of its few shortcomings: it now has tab pages, AKA tabbed windows.
For those of you who are partial to editors like Visual Studio and notepad, if you are interested in learning a more powerful editor try this new release. It has all [...]
A Makefile Tutorial
May 31st, 2006There’s a nice GNU Make tutorial at this Swathmore webpage. I like how it hides those overwhelming .h files and obnoxious .o files in sub-directories, keeping the project root clean.
For the curious few who wonder what on earth I just said, GNU Make is an open-source utility for compiling code. It takes Makefiles, which are [...]
Common Mistakes with C# and OleDb
November 17th, 2005I spent over three hours today struggling to get my C# application to talk nicely with an Access database. It turned out that I had two sneaky little bugs.
I added my OleDbParameters to my OleDbCommand in the wrong order. I thought that OleDb would be smart enough to order them properly… I was wrong. The [...]