Back Online Again

May 31st, 2006 by kwong

Apparently, yesterday’s storm knocked out my DSL router.
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Thread Safety Made Easier Under Visual Studio 2005

May 26th, 2006 by kwong

Most of us know that controls in Windows forms are bound to a specific thread and are not thread safe, and thus UI controls created or referenced on non-UI thread must be marshaled back to the UI thread by using one of the Invoke methods.
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How Much Energy do We Use Driving?

May 26th, 2006 by kwong

Everyone knows that we are so dependent on cars nowadays and everyone knows that we use a lot of energy driving, just to get ourselves around. But exactly how much energy are we talking about here? Here is my simple calculation.
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It’s Been a Year

May 14th, 2006 by kwong

So, this site has been running for a year now…
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Idle Process Time Under VMWare Workstation

May 11th, 2006 by kwong

Processes running within a virtual machine should behave almost identically to that running on the host.
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How to Learn a New Computer Language?

May 7th, 2006 by kwong

In one of my previous posts , I mentioned that which computer languages you know and use now might be irrelevant a few years down the road and what makes a good software developer is the ability to apply the principals in computer science into practice.
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Watch Out for Number Conversion Errors

May 3rd, 2006 by kwong

Converting from floating point numbers (e.g. double, single) to integers can be tricky.
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