Monthly : February 2006

16 Feb

Good Comment

by Marco Mastropaolo

A very rare event is finding a good comment on a discussion forum (or alike). I’ve found this on Slashdot, on an argument about the rights (or the lack thereof) of personal copies of music CDs : When I buy a CD, am I buying the physical disc, in which case I surely get the [...]

Filed Under: Uncategorized

11 Feb

Olympic Torch

by Marco Mastropaolo

The Olympic Torch Relay passed near my workplace The opening ceremony was beautiful.. and thinking it was here in Turin gave me a good feeling of pride..

Filed Under: Sport Events, Uncategorized

09 Feb

Stupid features make a great product rubbish

by Marco Mastropaolo

Its a specific strange instance of greed. Addin just that one feature that in the end renders your otherwise perfect product in pure crap. If you have used the form editor in Visual Studio 2005, you know what i mean

Filed Under: Uncategorized

08 Feb

Wow! P/INVOKE made easy

by Marco Mastropaolo

While wasting tim^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H ahem While reading important and interesting stuff around, I stumbled upon http://www.pinvoke.net/. It is a great site for those who want to P/INVOKE from .NET languages on native APIs. Heck, it’s so great sometimes I check it even when coding in native C++

Filed Under: .NET, Uncategorized, Win32