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August 2008

Would you switch to IE8

by Shabbir on August 30, 2008

in News

Pretty much every website guy I know uses Firefox or Opera as their browser of choice and everyone has Internet Explorer in their PC for couple of reason.
1. As it comes with the OS
2. They need to test their site for proper functioning in IE.
Now Microsoft released Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 ( download ). [...]

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Pirated XP would see black screen of hell

by Shabbir on August 29, 2008

in News

Microsoft introduced WGA when Vista was launched. For those who are not aware of what WGA is all about. WGA is a mechanism used by Microsoft to detect pirated and non-genuine installations of Windows but as all Microsoft product it also has a problem which is while it’s been good at detecting non-genuine installs of [...]

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How some of the programming languages are named

by Shabbir on August 24, 2008

in C#, C/C++, PHP

PHP has come a long way in the last few years and now its one of the most popular known web language but has any one of us thought why the Name of the language is PHP and nothing else Or what is the full form of PHP. If No read through the complete post [...]

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Safe Programming

by Shabbir on August 22, 2008

in C/C++

Once doing Code Review I found a code snippet like this and so thought would share my experience here.
CDialog *SomeDialog = new CMyDialog(<<Some Param>>);
SomeDialog->SomeFunction(this);
In the above code we always assume that SomeDialog is always allocated with the CMyDialog class pointer but that may not be the case always and so its always better to have [...]

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Visual Studio 2005 Non-Unicode compilation

by Shabbir on August 17, 2008

in C/C++

Many developers like me tend to write code in ANSI compilation till we managed to get our hands on Visual Studio 2005 where the default setting is Unicode compilation and so you may need to be using the _T() / TEXT like function and if you are aware of them your life could become hell.
So [...]

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Structures in C/C++

by Shabbir on August 11, 2008

in C/C++

Structures are a group of data elements, and we can access them using the structures. The data elements can be from any types.
Sample of a structure
struct StructName
{
int i;
char c;
} obj1, obj2;
So, a structure is declared with the “struct” keyword, then comes its name. Then, in the braces [...]

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