Monthly Archives: September 2008

MFC’s Radio Button Hack

By zacharyc | Published: September 4, 2008

Disclaimer: I am a mac user, but a windows programmer. MFC is Microsoft’s old Window framework. Basically it is an object oriented wrapper around the traditional Win32 programming environment presented by Microsoft to help develop windows. Win32 is many years old, and so is MFC. Microsoft’s new frameworks, .NET and WPF (Windows Presentation Framework) are [...]

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Photo of the Day: Sun Beach

By zacharyc | Published: September 4, 2008

This picture was also taken on my road trip to Monterey. This is on the way down to Carmel, before we made it to pebble beach. I couldn’t have asked for a better day to take pictures. The clouds were perfect and sun was bright. I just wish the photographer were better

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Photo of the Day: Jelly Fish

By zacharyc | Published: September 3, 2008

This shot was taken at the Monterey Aquarium. Low light, no flash, this was the best I could get.

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Wanting To Find A Bug

By zacharyc | Published: September 2, 2008

This happened to me last week. Yet another lesson learned. I was working on debugging some code at work. Someone was complaining about some functionality in an element we draw on screen. In order to better diagnose the problem, I wanted to create an example and see if I couldn’t get the problem to reproduce. [...]

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Photo of the Day: Wine Fence

By zacharyc | Published: September 2, 2008

After a short little weekend break, Photo of the day is back. This photo I shot yesterday in Napa. I finally started to experiment with my new defuser. Since the sun was out in force yesterday, I used this light as a fill and ended up with some interesting results. This just happens to be [...]

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