Last year I blogged about LiberalHexum.org, where Nick Hexum, the lead singer of 311 is running the LA marathon and raising money for global warming. I donated last year, and did again this year. Here is a video from the local LA news station with more info.
I can’t stress how important this issue is, if you can even donate 5 bucks its worth it. Peace 🙂
You can help different causes by just using Windows Live Messenger 8.1
Here are the codes:
| *red+u | American Red Cross |
| *bgca | Boys & Girls Clubs |
| *naf | National AIDS Fund |
| *mssoc | National Multiple Sclerosis Society |
| *9mil | ninemillion.org |
| *sierra | Sierra Club |
| *help | StopGlobalWarming.org |
| *komen | Susan G. Komen for the Cure |
| *unicef | The US fund for UNICEF |
I am doing the *help code, to help stop global warming. This is such a cool idea and pretty easy to do. The will donate ad revenue to the charities if you put the code in your name and send IM’s.
Well, now that the storm has somewhat passed, it is still snowing out, but not as hard. My car doesn’t seem to want to move though. Wish I still had my truck on days like today, although, the 20 dollars a month in gas makes up for it in the long run (compared to 65 dollars a fillup on the truck every week)
At least we have the option of working from home today, so I can take advantage of that. Now that I have my Wii, I can even take Wii breaks, just like at the office 🙂 (although I have only played like 2 times at work)
I am in the process of taking some 3rd party c++ source code, and converting it to VS2005. One thing I noticed over and over, is that when you are reading in file contents, you need to make sure to release the buffer, but with the length of the file as the parameter.
For example, this code:
CString myData;
if (file.Open(lpszFilename, CFile::modeRead))
{
DWORD dwLength = file.GetLength();
file.Read(myData.GetBuffer(dwLength), dwLength);
myData.ReleaseBuffer();
file.Close();
}
will throw an assertion when in debug mode
to fix, add the dwLength value to your ReleaseBuffer()
myData.ReleaseBuffer(dwLength);
if you run the bad code in release mode, nothing happens, which suprises me, you would think that the runtime would croak, but it doesn’t. Anyways, make sure to release your buffers.
What do you do what the office closes early? Stop by the local watering hole, and take advantage of the free wi-fi
Now that I have a Wii, I’ve been downloading old Nintendo games. The Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time, what a great game. Spiller and I played this all through sophomore year of college, between classes and parties. We could never find the triforce though!!
Update: fixed spelling and added link to Spiller’s MySpace
More C++ gotchas. You get this error, what do you do?
Check your resource file, there is a resource with an ID of 1. Change it to something (5000) or whatever, and rebuild. You should be good to go.
If you are updating from VS2003 to VS2005, C++, you might run across an error like this. What it means is that they changes the return types from 2003 to 2005. You just need to change the UINT to an LRESULT and you should be good to go.
This is all over the blogs today:
CodingHorror.com. Jeff Atwood writes a great post entitled Why Can’t Programmers.. Program?
Just for kix, I did it, just so I knew I wasn’t crazy 🙂
for(int i = 1; i < 101; i++)
{
if(i % 3 == 0 && i % 5 == 0)
{
Console.WriteLine("FizzBuzz");
}
else if(i % 3 == 0)
{
Console.WriteLine("Fizz");
}
else if(i % 5 == 0)
{
Console.WriteLine("Buzz");
}
else
{
Console.WriteLine(i.ToString());
}
}
FORFILES /P C:MyPath /S /M log*.xml /D -30 /C "cmd /c del @file"
/S – look at subdirectories
log*.xml – that is the file pattern, you could have it be like *.txt for example
/D -30 = files greater than 30 days
/C – thats the command you want to run
this is pretty much a one line command that could replace a ton of vbScripts, batch files, and other apps I have seen over the years to clean up files. Something for every sys admin’s toolbelt.
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