Category: Mini How-Tos
A Mini How-To is a very short step-by-step or recipe-like description of how to do a specific task. Mini How-Tos are generally aimed at users who are not very familiar with the task and often leave out details that would only interest expert users. Contrast Mini How-To with How-Tos, which are similar but much longer in length. Aliases: Tips, Tech Tips, Tips and Tricks.
On Boxing Day I finally gave into a long held desire; I purchased a big, flat-panel TV. After checking the thickness of my wallet (or rather, the lack thereof) and doing some online research, I settled upon the Sony Bravia KDL-46W5100 LCD TV.
I won’t review the TV in this post. If you’re interested, check out CNET’s review or the Future Shop’s customer reviews. Needless to say, I’m very happy with my KDL-46W5100, especially considering the low price I paid on Boxing Day.
The real purpose of this post is to show you how to stream videos to a KDL-46W5100. …Continue reading » How to Play Streaming Videos on a Sony Bravia KDL-46W5100 TV
Back in the day when I did more Java development, I used Apache’s Commons Lang regularly to do all kinds of things like string manipulations and implementing Object.equals() and Object.hashCode().
Not too long ago, I started working more with C# and the .NET Framework and I found myself wanting some of the functionality of Commons Lang for the .NET platform. The closest thing I could find was Artur Trosin’s port of the EqualsBuilder and HashCodeBuilder classes from Commons Lang to C#. Artur’s excellent port saved me a lot of work. He even provided ported unit tests, which was a nice touch.
…Continue reading » An Implementation of BitConverter.SingleToInt32Bits
I’m sure that every SQL Server developer has had the experience of waking up at 3:00 AM, in a cold sweat, wondering “How can I execute a case sensitive query when my server uses a case insensitive collation?”
…Continue reading » SQL Server Case Sensitive Queries With Case Insensitive Collation
Have you ever taken a flash photo of your dog or cat and noticed that the result looked like an alien pet? For example, check out this photo of my Beagle-Jack-Russell:
Dog Before Green Eye Removal
Using the GIMP photo editor and a photo editing tutorial I found this week, I was easily able to remove the green eyes in the above photo. Check out the edited photo:
Dog After Green Eye Removal
Isn’t Milo cute? I hope this tip helps someone else. Many thanks to Sue Chastain, the author of the tutorial I used.
