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Shog9 wrote: Hey, want to buy a copy of the IBM-1130 FORTRAN manual...?
Hmm. Good Stuff.
What about "Peter Norton. Inside the IBM PC"
The one with the in-depth description of the IBM-PC cassette-player interface...
"We trained hard, but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we would be reorganised. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganising: and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress, while producing confusion, inefficiency and demoralisation."
-- Caius Petronius, Roman Consul, 66 A.D.
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I still have an "Introduction To Computers" book I used in college that talks about card readers. I'm sure glad that we don't have to deal with those any longer!!!
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Is it just me or do tech books suffer from the most awful titles? They are incredibly long.
Programming Microsoft ASP.NET 2.0 Core Reference
Programming C# : Building .NET Applications with C#
Data Structures and Problem Solving Using Java
Practical Guidelines and Best Practices for Microsoft Visual Basic and Visual C# Developers
I don't see the sense of having "Microsoft ASP.NET" when "ASP.NET" will suffice. Or "Building .NET Applications with C#" when "Building applications with C#" will suffice. It isn't going to be "Building Java Applications with C#" now is it?
I only bring this up as I am listing all the books in the office and my web-app has to truncuate nearly every single book title. And that is before you get into things like 2nd, 3rd, 4th and nth editions.
regards,
Paul Watson
Ireland
Feed Henry!
K(arl) wrote:
oh, and BTW, CHRISTIAN ISN'T A PARADOX, HE IS A TASMANIAN!
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Is that
toxcct wrote: remove "Microsoft"
the company, as well as the word?
... Wishfull thinking when VS2005 crashes for the tenth time this morning.
If you have knowledge, let others light their candles at it.
Margaret Fuller (1810 - 1850)
-- modified at 7:27 Tuesday 7th February, 2006
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The Man from U.N.C.L.E. wrote: Wishfull thinking when VS2005 crashes for the tenth time this morning.
Start using #develop
Regards,
Brian Dela
Blog^
Co-author of The Outlook Answer Book... Go on, order^ it today!
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I already am.
Unfortunately VS has to be used for work. Oh well
If you have knowledge, let others light their candles at it.
Margaret Fuller (1810 - 1850)
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I'd love to see you do unit testing of those multi-threaded controller/agent classes in #develop :P
regards,
Paul Watson
Ireland
Feed Henry!
K(arl) wrote:
oh, and BTW, CHRISTIAN ISN'T A PARADOX, HE IS A TASMANIAN!
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I know I know... We all hate VS 2005 but nobody will turn it off...
*Paul.. back away from my VS 2005.. Paul.. NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!*
Regards,
Brian Dela
Blog^
Co-author of The Outlook Answer Book... Go on, order^ it today!
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Muwahahahahaha! Use Ruby on Rails for everything! RadRails IDE for everything! Muwahahahaha...
(Just to fill everybody in, Brian and I work together. He is sitting behind me, shouting at VS2005. I am sitting behind him, shouting at RadRails. It's all good.)
regards,
Paul Watson
Ireland
Feed Henry!
K(arl) wrote:
oh, and BTW, CHRISTIAN ISN'T A PARADOX, HE IS A TASMANIAN!
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Paul Watson wrote: Brian and I work together. He is sitting behind me
As far as I know, I'm the only Code Project member where I work , and that's out of 15-20 programmers in the building.
I'm so used to all of you being sig's in a forum...
Software Zen: delete this;
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Well Brian and I met on CP, became friends and then a few years later he offered me a job here in Ireland. Poor bugger.
regards,
Paul Watson
Ireland
Feed Henry!
K(arl) wrote:
oh, and BTW, CHRISTIAN ISN'T A PARADOX, HE IS A TASMANIAN!
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Are you sure it's the app and not just a bad stick of memory or something. I use VS2005 daily and I've never had it crash.
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I don't mind long titles so much, it's the Crystal Reports poster boy that's getting to me.
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Hmm...
Programming in Microsoft Windows under Microsoft Visual Studio using Microsoft Visual C++ and the Microsoft Foundation Classes.
As far as MS is concerned, the above could read...
Microsoft Microsoft Microsoft Microsoft Microsoft Microsoft Microsoft Microsoft Microsoft Microsoft Microsoft
...and they'd be just as happy.
Jeremy Falcon
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Wait till all the Longhorn books hit the shelves...
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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Agile Development on Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate Edition with Microsoft Windows Presentation Foundation in Microsoft C# and Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0, 3rd Edition
regards,
Paul Watson
Ireland
Feed Henry!
K(arl) wrote:
oh, and BTW, CHRISTIAN ISN'T A PARADOX, HE IS A TASMANIAN!
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Hello,
I leave all my books at home. I just started with my graduation project and I bought all my books before. I might move them to the office when I need them there. I won't leave my books there since I don't have any private space there.
Anybody else working in a so called flex-office?
Behind every great black man...
... is the police. - Conspiracy brother
Blog[^]
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Most stuff about technology will be out of date before it even leaves the printing press.
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Hello to everybody,
I'm trying to call a function in a win32 dll; the documentation, written in C++, for the dll reports the calling convention as:
SHORT Start (UCHAR ucNumCom, ULONG usSpeed)
In a module, I wrote the following line:
Declare Function Start Lib "abc.dll" (ByVal ucNumCom As Char, ByVal usSpeed As UInt64) As Short
Then I wrote the following code (in the click event of a button)
Start(CStr(serialPort).Chars(0), speed)
(where serialPort is a string variable and speed is a UInt64 one).
The dll function executes and returns me an error code of InvalidParameter; don't get me wrong: i don't fall in any Try...Catch branch.
Is there anybody out there who can help me?
Thanx in advance
Marco Turrini
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Try posting your question in the VB.NET forum[^].
Software Zen: delete this;
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Techy books that don't come with a PDF version should be sent back to the publisher with a big note saying "Gutenberg died in 1468, get with the times!"
eVersions of books are great if for no other reason than searching.
regards,
Paul Watson
Ireland
Feed Henry!
K(arl) wrote:
oh, and BTW, CHRISTIAN ISN'T A PARADOX, HE IS A TASMANIAN!
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and they stay there.
I learnt my lesson long ago, that books taken into work usually disappear. I've lost count of the number of books that I've had to buy again because they went walk-about.
I find books rarely have much use at work. Books are great for learning and for knowledge gathering, which I prefer to do at home.
If I need to reference something for my work, then Google usually gives me the answer.
Michael
CP Blog [^] Development Blog [^]
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I ran into that problem several years ago. One of my books disappeared that I used fairly often. I went wandering around, asking about it, with no results. Finally, I was idly talking to someone, and it turned out they had it.
"I borrowed it one day, and you weren't around."
"You couldn't leave a damn note?"
She wouldn't talk to me after that.
For a long time after that I kept the shelf units over my desk locked.
Software Zen: delete this;
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