Monthly Archives: November, 2008

Wordpress, Creating a RSS feed for each category.

Have you ever wanted to create a RSS feed just for a perpendicular category in wordpress?
Say for example that you run an artiest website like my friend Camilla d’Errico. You want to send your users updates about upcoming shows but you don’t want to send them all the status updates and other blog posts.  Well [...]

C++ name mangling hell

I found this post on Experts exchange about C++ name mangling hell. I have run in to this problems a few times, it drives me nuts as I always forget about it when trying to use LoadLibrary and GetProcAddress.
#ifdef FIRSTINDLL_EXPORTS
#define FIRSTINDLL_API extern “C” __declspec(dllexport)
#else
#define FIRSTINDLL_API extern “C” __declspec(dllimport)
#endif
// Exported function.
FIRSTINDLL_API const char* const FirstGetBuf(USHORT Num);
Otherwise [...]

How to Move/Backup/Load a SVN repository

After the first time my computer crashed and i lost 3 months of work, I started religiously making backups of everything, dialy, weekly quarterly backups of all my data. Its become an obsession of mine, before I start a project I always make sure that there is a recovery procedure.
For source code and documents I [...]

Default action for vista power button

The default action for vista power button is to put your computer to sleep. I found this to be infurating while working on my laptop. instead of shutting down like i would expect it to my laptop would go in to sleep mode and slowly dran the battiers till it was dead.
After a little Google [...]