Today I finally downloaded and tested MaxiVista, the extend-your-desktop-with-networked-PC-screens tool. What I need to find out, is how to let the secondary display have no background, to speed things up. Although it is fast in its default configuration anyway.
Delphi works great with it. See the screenshot below.
See how windows automatically extends the PrintScreen-capture to include the extra desktop? Neat!
Update: the screenshot is garbled in FireFox, it looks good in IE. WTF?
It works!
Today we spend some time in the garden. W cleaning the windows and I made a little platform of stones so you can take of your shoes before entering the house. The garden is still one big pile of sand, you must know. We are trying to get a decent design from an architect, and if that fails, we will have to decorate the garden ourselves. But in the meantime, the wheather is getting better and better. The trees in the backyard (well, there’s only one in our backyard, the other 10 trees are officially not ours) are doing their utmost creating a green crown. Great, because that means we don’t have to buy sunshades or screens.
As you can see in the post below, I modified b2e‘s configuration to be able to give the DIV tag the ALIGN attribute, which is disabled by default.
Katja is hot, everybody on the net knows that. She appears in the Dutch Playboy again. You can preview the scans at SuperPimp (link removed due to referrer spam)!
Not beginning from scratch was a bad idea. Trying to copycat other peoples styles made it even worse. This is how far I’ve gotten sofar:
My skin seems to look better (sidebar) in FireFox than it does in IE. *sigh* Another reason to dump IE.
Quite an achievement, running .NET applications that use the Windows.Forms-namespace on Linux. The instructions on how to setup Mono to do such a thing can be found on these pages.
Delphi Developers’ Singapore and Asia Fortress of Solitude has a short but simple tutorial how to implement an RSS 2.0 newsfeed (using Delphi 8 for .NET) on your corporate website. Or whatever website. Check it out here.
Nick has a nice piece about normalization of database-schemas, or in his experience: the absence of it lately. I’m an educated databasedesigner myself, and when looking at the underlying databases of some applications I’ve used, shivers run down my spine most of the time. People not knowing how to normalize is something I can live with (it means my salary is justified), but if you create a schema for your application, at least be consistent in naming your tables and columns. Don’t mix plural and singular names, don’t use a hyphen in one occasion and an underscore in the other (if both are allowed), and for crying out loud: use sensible names. We have more than 64bkyte of memory in most computer nowadays, so why abbreviate everything to 3, 4 or 6 characters? Because it’s easier to type when coding? Get a decent IDE with CodeCompletion. That’s easier than trying to remember what all these cryptic TLAs stand for.
LaCie has a new version of her Big Disk, and it’s simply called Bigger Disk. And Bigger it is: the beast sports 1TB (that is 1000,000,000,000 bytes!) of diskspace. The Bigger Disk will be available in May, and the suggested retail price is about $1200. That’s not too bad for that much space. You can hook it up to your PC or Mac via Firewire400, Firewire800 or USB 2.0. Perhaps I’ll discuss this thingie at home, since my picture collection is an ever growing disk-burdening monster. I now use DVD’s as my backup, but searching for pictures means swapping disks. Not to mention the search-speed (or lack thereof) on a DVD-R(W) compared to my 10Krpm U160-SCSI disks.