Interesting Databinding Behavior

December 21st, 2007 by kwong

Earlier today, while I was trying to bind a collection to a drop down list, I got the following exception:
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My Favorite Program of All Time

December 18th, 2007 by kwong

I remember that in one of my graduate school classes at University of Wisconsin - Madison, professor Rastislav Bodik (he had left UW Madison and gone to UC Berkeley since) showed us this article Reverse Engineering the Twelve Days of Christmas from Microsoft Research while explaining some compilation theories.
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GRUB Error 17, LILO Rules

December 9th, 2007 by kwong

Ubuntu and OpenSUSE have been my top choices of Linux distros over the years.
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Weird Master Page Problem

December 8th, 2007 by kwong

I recently ran into a very strange problem with ASP.Net 2.0. I have used master pages for a couple of years now, and this is the first time I encountered such an odd problem.
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MATLAB 7 under WINE

December 1st, 2007 by kwong

When I tried WINE many years ago, there were not that many large applications that could actually run smoothly without some sort of hacks.
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A TIFF Merge and Split Utility

November 19th, 2007 by kwong

Here is a tool that I created (in C#.Net) which comes in handy when dealing with multi-frame TIFF images.
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Understanding “A generic error occurred in GDI+.” Error

November 15th, 2007 by kwong

When dealing with GDI+ in .Net (e.g. certain objects in System.Drawing namespace), we would sometimes get the following exception:
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GDI+ Unable to Handle JPEG Compressed TIFF Images

November 14th, 2007 by kwong

A few weeks ago, I wrote about the lousy error message handling in GDI+. Apparently, it is not only just lousy, but incomplete as well.
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A Stange Post Back Problem

November 7th, 2007 by kwong

A few days ago, I was deploying a Website at work and ran into a very mysterious problem.
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Lousy GDI+ Error Messages

October 23rd, 2007 by kwong

I have heard many people complaining about how GDI+ handles errors.
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