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Note; If you don't feel like reading this entire post, at least read this: Start8 from Stardock Corp (30 day free trial, 5 bucks after that, and well worth it IMO): Get your start button back, disable hotspots, and boot directly to the desktop with that utility. Otherwise, read on. This post is not going to be a diatribe either for or against Windows 8 (though I will give a brief opinion towards the the end of this post), but rather on Microsoft's stance on backwards compatibility vs. other...

This will be short how to on how to get ISO C ‘99 code to compile in Visual Studio 200x (in this case, Visual Studio 2012), since Microsoft only supports ANSI C ‘89 (and barely at that). Microsoft have made it very clear that they will not support C99 , and instead urges users to move to Visual C++ instead. Ok that’s great…unless you need to write straight up C. Background: I’m brushing up on my ISO C for an upcoming interview I have next week. I haven’t written...

A pet project I’ve been working on (on and off, time permitting) has been in need of some serious refactoring, so I finally sat down to eliminate some redundancy, and work on some design pattern work. A common problem in software design is making sure base class implementation is always called from overrides, but also deferring finer grained details to subclasses without changing the base class implementation, without having to always specify base.<implementation> in every single override in...

DISQUS.com is awesome. Finally, a centralized location for comment conversations to occur. Plus, they manage all the comment spam for you. Here’s how to add it to Community Server blog (I have not done this for the forum section, but I assume it’s just as easy). In your theme folder, in themes\blogs\NAME\ you are using, find the post.aspx file and add the code supplied by disqus. just below the </CSBlog:PostAttachmentData> tag. Also, disqus doesn’t play nice with the default <!DOCTYPE>...

It took me a couple of tries to get the new Windows Live beta package installed on my machine; the secret fix for me was to enable the Windows Firewall service (I disable it since I’m behind other firewalls), so if your install is failing, turn on the Firewall service. You can turn it off again after you’re done. The previous version of Windows Live Writer hasn’t worked on any of my machines for quite some time now, so it’s nice that the new version actually works again. I might actually start keeping...