Hardcode

Windows 7 Old Right Click on Taskbar Windows

2010-03-09T08:33:00Z

Do you sometimes need the old right click menu on a taskbar icon in Windows 7 ? The one with Restore, Move, Minimize, etc ? Here's what happens when you right click a taskbar item:

Should you miss the old menu, press shift+right-click:

If you have multiple windows open:

Linq Select Indices of Top Ordered Elements

2010-02-24T13:13:00Z

I've recently got over the second Select variant, so now I can do the following to find the top 3 elements:

double[] output = new double[] { 5,6,7,8,9 };
var indices = output.Select( (v,i) => new { v = v, i = i}).OrderByDescending( p => p.v).Take(3).Select( p => p.i);

Result: 4,3,2. Anyone has a better solution ?

Free ASP.NET Profiler

2009-11-03T16:49:00Z

At last a free and brilliant asp.net profiler, here. Instructions for starting it here. 10 minutes and I've already got a 100% increase in speed.

IKEA Prank

2009-09-16T15:14:00Z

And btw check our latest prank in the IKEA store: http://culturavura.fourhooks.com/cat54435/art6451142070/. Pictures from http://cocalari.com and http://pitzipoanca.org.

CodeJam 2009

2009-09-16T15:05:00Z

If you've participated be sure to check out the solutions written in some exotic programming languages like BrainFuck, SQL, Fortran and even PostScript ...

C# Initialize Dictionary

2009-08-05T12:40:00Z

I've recently found the magic way to do it:

new Dictionary<string,string>() {
                   { "from_uid", "1" },
                   { "to_uid", "2"},
                   { "ocurred", "1000" }
               }

The language feature for this is not the ability to do the following:

KeyValuePair<string,string> pair = { "a", "b"}

and then have the list constructor enumerator feature that we already know: new List<int> () { 1,2,3 }, but rather a shortcut to Dictionary<string,string>.Add(string key, string value). More on this here.

Entity Framework Related Entities Queries

2009-07-22T09:35:00Z

In Linq to SQL the following works by issuing a second query, in Linq to Entities it does not (and this sucks):

Shortcut sh = db.Shortcuts.First();
int count = sh.Redirects.Where( r => r.ocurred < dt).Count();

You have to do the following instead:

int count = db.Redirects.Where( r => r.shortid == sh.id && r.ocurred < dt).Count();

Some quick stats

2009-07-08T07:59:00Z

... for http://oracolulmeu.ro/ for the last Monday: 1K visits and 42K pageviews (same day).

S4H

2009-07-08T07:44:00Z

So now we have or own url-shortener service: http://s4h.ro/. Give it a try !

The Holy Grail of Webdesign

2009-06-22T16:01:00Z

.... is almost live : http://psdbreaker.com.

Provider: SQL Network Interfaces, error: 26 - Error Locating Server/Instance Specified

2009-04-27T00:36:00Z

I recently got the dreadful error when starting the website, even if the database connection string was more than correct and it worked in sql management studio. If you've tried anything else without success of getting your website started, and you use SQL Server-backed session persistance, be sure to also check for the sessionState connection string...

Nokia Friend View

2009-04-21T12:04:00Z

Similar to Jaiku and Google Latitude: Friend View from Nokia. (thanks, Tase!)

John Carmack on iPhone Development

2009-03-30T16:40:00Z

Wolfenstein 3D for iPhone is out, here are John Carmack's comments.

Digi Cafe Awards

2009-03-27T09:25:00Z

Yey both Coolio and Urbee won prizes at last night's Digi Cafe Awards, Urbee even won the big prize!

Exceptions when DataBinding

2009-03-26T13:47:00Z

A really annoying thing if you use the DataSourceID databinding is that you can't identify the control that throws the exception, the only thing that you get is an ID-less stacktrace and the debugger doesn't break at all ...