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I realize many IDEs do this, but I felt like writing a few lines of script to spit this out instead. This will grab every line marked “private”, whether method or member variable and generates a default getter/setter. Note: it doesn’t insert the code for you or even capture to a file. Maybe next I’ll [...]

Running this old code, which was probably not actually turned in for anything, through the gcc compiler alone showed that there was a glaring error that would have been exposed on the the first run. Beyond the initial compiler warnings, there are the ALL CAPS variables, the while loops used as pure for loops…   [...]

Well, Track your unread items/total items count in Outlook on startup, except for the pesky Outlook Macro disabled security problem. Besides, I never restarted Outlook often enough for it to track much of anything. Instead, I decided to create a Ruby script to track the count. I’ve left reference URLs and test notes in place [...]

Saw this via the following article: “Opera passes iPhone to lead mobile-browser market“ What’s interesting is the trend graph itself: Source: StatCounter Global Stats – Mobile Browser Market Share What about mobile operating systems, though? iPhoneOS and SymbianOS in a duel: Source: StatCounter Global Stats – Mobile OS Market Share As far as mobile search [...]

Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline On the Admin page, under Settings->Writing: Post via e-mailTo post to WordPress by e-mail you must set up a secret e-mail account with POP3 access. Any mail received at this address will be posted, so it’s a good idea to keep this address very secret. Here are three [...]

I’m moving my tech stuff to tech0x20.com (Tech Space) I originally created three sites on my thomaspowell.com domain: linux-notes – I started my blogging experiment here.vim – My “adventures” in vim, not a very broad audience, but I liked keeping public notes on my favorite programming editor here.developernotes – I realized that I was researching [...]

(For gtk2+ruby, I used the Windows installer package) For some reason, I'm trying to learn a portable language/toolkit. First, I had to find the correct signal to connect to.  Looks like focus_out_event is it. currentMileage.signal_connect("focus_out_event") {   mileagePerDay.text=((targetMileage.text.to_f  – currentMileage.text.to_f)    /(Time.parse(targetDate.text)-Time.now)*3600*24).to_s} signal_connect vs signal_connect_after…  apparently, improper usage of signal_connect (for "focus_out_event") will generate the [...]

At least you had to pony up a few bucks per domain name back then.  Now there's Twitter squatting.  It's fairly predictable, really…  Every single letter TwitID is taken.  Common surnames…  taken.  Common words…  taken.  Apparently, you don't even need to use a legitimate or at least legitimately unique e-mail address to do it.

A question via e-mail: I stumbled upon your blog: http://developernotes.thomaspowell.comWhat I noticed – and it's something that I wanted also – is that your blogpages are all ending in .php, even your individual blogpost pages (http://developernotes.thomaspowell.com/2008/10/remember-milk-is-on-twitter.php) How do you do that in settings? I can only get the index page to end as PHP. The [...]

Yahoo Introduces Social Developer Platform "3 elements": Yahoo Social Platform, a set of REST-based social application programming interfaces (APIs) for utilizing social data related to Profiles, Connections, Updates, Contacts, and Status. Yahoo Query Language, a new Web service API for accessing other Web services using a SQL-style query language, rather than a lower-level programming code. [...]