Making it happen
Archive for September, 2006
Midlet self-replication
Sep 28th
Considered one of the Holy Grails of J2ME programming, self-replication is a must for viral marketing by helping your product spread quickly. It involves two parts: getting your hands on the jar and sending it via Bluetooth OBEX.
Retrieving the JAR contents is cumbersome, it involves re-packing the JAR or hacking the ZIP structure (an excellent paper is this one). As for OBEX, most phones don’t support it natively (the API) so you’ll have to implement it from scratch.
IIS configuration
Sep 24th
After a couple of years of working with IIS, I still have no idea how to do the following stuff (don’t know if it’s possible actually!) :
VB crash when writing exe
Sep 20th
As I am one of the last programmers still using VB – here is one possible solution of the dreaded crash when linking a VB project: check if the used ActiveXes are able to initialize and destroy gracefully (using a simple test project or something).
MSDN wiki
Sep 19th
This is veeery old news. Here’s the wiki – overall it’s a good idea (I was surprised back then to see Microsoft doing a wiki). Still it’s not well indexed by Google and Google Groups remains the best for programming-related searches.
Speaking of old stuff – this C++ FAQ written by The Inventor Himself is simply excellent! Did you know about this:
class D : public B {public: using B::f;// make every f from B available
?
University paradox
Sep 18th
I have just finished the 5th year of study but will graduate in January as only then I can present my graduation diplomma project.
Question: What year of study am I ? I’m not in the 5th anymore as I passed all the exams. Still – there’s no 6th year.
Google Codejam
Sep 8th
Maximum efficiency: I’ve written about 10 lines for the 250-point problem and submitted it in like 5 minutes.
Congratulations! The results of the Google Code Jam 2006 Qualification Round have been officially tabulated, and we’re happy to announce that you have advanced to Round 1. This is a great accomplishment.
The 750 one was too difficult though 
