Monthly Archives: November 2008

Scams Not Good Enough? Now Download Sites Are Stealing Your IP Too!

By scott kane | Published: November 30, 2008
If you are a regular reader of this blog you’ll know I detest and loathe download sites.  I won’t reiterate all the reasons for this in this article, if you’re curious please see the Download Site’s Are Spam category of this blog. I try to follow these scum merchants and their proclivity for the advancement of [...]
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The Move From Delphi To Visual Studio

By scott kane | Published: November 27, 2008
As I’ve outlined here in previous posts recently I took the major step of switching development environments “midstream” as it where from Delphi, after 13 years, to .Net and Visual Studio...
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Fair Warning To ISV's Auto Installing IE Toolbars In Their Applications!

By scott kane | Published: November 23, 2008
I did so tonight and the company concerned should be bloody ashamed of themselves for installing – hereby known on this blog – CRAPBAR – into Internet Explorer without my permission...
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Not Drowning – Waving…

By scott kane | Published: November 21, 2008
Basically I’m converting code in MixAction across to C# in VisualStudio 2008. It’s nowhere near as painful as I envisaged. In fact many of the issues I found I had to code around, as I mentioned in my last post, in Delphi are no longer needed. So as far as audio is concerned it’s going along swimmingly...
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