Blue Desk

I’ve managed to keep the classic Gmail look until today, when all of a sudden Gmail morphed irreversibly into the horrendous new interface,...

I’ve just discovered an interesting function to aid the Win32 programmer in finding eventual memory leaks in debugging mode, and with a very...

I use Git on Linux a lot, but these days I was willing to use it on Windows too. I remember some time ago I found some ugly installers, so ...

When programming with C and Win32, sometimes you need to load an icon, as displayed on Windows Explorer, relative to a file extension. For e...

Just to mention, these are the addons I’m using today on my Firefox 10.0.2: Adblock Plus 2.0.3 — Blocks all advertising content according ...

I was working on my personal Win32 classes, when I came across something I was willing to do. Suppose I have the following class: class Ba...

These are the optimization settings I use on Visual C++ 2008. These settings are set to the release builds, on the project settings window, ...

Known and remembered only by true programmers, the creator of the C programming language, Dennis Ritchie, has passed away, at the age of 70....

I started having formal music training when I was a child, and although I didn’t have any classes for years, I still like to study music whe...

Personally, I’m a sprintf lover. Not only in C , but in any program language that implements it. I use sprintf all the time, it’s extremely...

I want to share with the world this code for a fast trim function in C which is part of my personal library, and that I use quite often. I...

Note: This post was updated on February 20, 2014. Google Chrome is a modern browser, the most advanced one we have today. But unfortunate...