October 2007
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Here are the articles that were published in October 2007.
Understanding single precision MBF
published: Tue, 23-Oct-2007
Man, that was fun. A friend IMed me recently with a problem. It
seems that he has some data from a legacy system (I know, yuk, and I
can see you wiping your hands on your shirt from here), that was a
floating point value in single precision MBF (Microsoft Binary
Format). In case you didn't know — I didn't — this is the
format used by CVS and MKS$ in Microsoft QuickBASIC and GW-BASIC,
those fabby-dabby BASIC interpreters from MS-DOS days. Hey, I wrote my
first BASIC program with GW-BASIC; no sniggering at the back. Yes,
Virginia, we are talking l-e-g-a-c-y.
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Random iTunes playlists (part 2)
published: Sat, 13-Oct-2007
In the last installment, I'd got to the
point where I could write code in C# to enumerate all the tracks in
the iTunes library. I now need to do a little more work in order to
select various tracks for inclusion in my random playlist.
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Random iTunes playlists (part 1)
published: Wed, 3-Oct-2007
Enough of all this angst, let's get down to some programming and
algorithms.
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Hertz, yeah! And other concerns...
published: Wed, 3-Oct-2007
After my blog post on our experiences with
renting an Audi A3 from Hertz in England
recently, I had a very nice email from a Customer Relations lady at
Hertz here in the States (in Oklahoma City, as it happens) apologizing
for the problems, and assuring me that our difficulties should
certainly not have happened.
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Delphi Programming On Lulu
published: Tue, 2-Oct-2007
Almost let this one go by without commenting on it. Dr Bob (a.k.a.
Bob Swart) has set up a
Delphi Programming group
on Lulu which lists all the Delphi books available there.
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