How to crash IE with just 4 levels of recursion in CSS and JavaScript
I can crash your Internet Explorer 6.0 (with all the latest patches) anytime you visit my page, with no warning at all. Fun stuff. I’m explaining how to do it…
Adobe SVG Viewer in .NET WinForms
I was working on a C# WinForms project where I had to embed the Adobe SVG Viewer in my form. The only distribution available comes in the form of an…
Generating non-pixelated thumbnail images in .NET
The .NET Framework comes with a large set of image manipulation libraries. Generating thumbnail images becomes very easy. But image pixelation, if it were a feature, is turned on by…
C# Dijkstra’s algorithm implementation
I implemented Dijkstra’s algorithm using C# for a Computer Science course. I implemented it in a generalized way, that still allows for optimization by the consuming code. I release the…
Why Equals and GetHashCode are so important to NHibernate
So I have been applying NHibernate.Generics to all my projects. I have learned some valuable lessons. NHibernate has always warned that all entity classes should implement their own Equals and…
VB.NET web scripting client library goes open source
I’m working on a ward photo directory project, for which I needed a web client scripting library. The idea was to be able to programmatically masquerade as a web browser,…
SPSS .NET wrapper assembly goes open source
I wrote a managed C# wrapper for the spssio32.dll library that comes with SPSS. It exposes most of the functionality of spssio32.dll for .NET use. All the memory management required…
MyNHibernateContrib gets an example web app
My open-source MyNHibernateContrib project, which adds support for generics, two-way collections and nullables to NHibernate, finally got a decent example web app. It is very small (as good example apps…
EMAR gets a new name, prepares for LGPL
The EMAR project that I have been working on for about four years is finally getting a (decent) new name. NAssess. This is in preparation for releasing EMAR with the…
Getting Ruby on Rails 1.0 running on Gentoo
After ignoring the advice to use Ruby 1.8.2 instead of the more recent 1.8.3, I got the “uninitialized constant Mysql” error and decided to downgrade. With Gentoo, this was very…