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Printed Documents: Intel Volumes Arrived

I ordered a few volumes of Intel manuals and they arrived today by FedEx. Yes, the manuals are printed and packaged in great condition. Although Microsoft provides a lot of PDF documents now, such...

HardQuery Report: ToolsAPI 5.0

Borland.Studio.ToolsAPI.dll is an important reference assembly used by Code Beautifier Collection and other experts. Version 1–4 of it was built against .NET 1.1. And now, version 5 included in Del...

Books Arrived On Time

I booked several books from China-Pub.com about two weeks ago. And luckily it arrived today. That means finally I can read some books at night, not watch the TV plays. I’d like to say that buying ...

Office 2007 Users' Must-Haves

When I installed Office 2007 Trial, I knew it is Office only because of its title bar saying Office 2007. The look is much different from Office 2003/XP, and every menu items are gone. The mans fr...

Class Helper Clone From Microsoft

For Delphi for .NET users, even on .NET 1.1 you can add extra properties and functions to a FCL class or classes in other people’s assemblies you can not modify. Yes, that language feature is named...

Refactoring Tools: Dangerous

The book Refactoring (Martin Fowler) is my favorite. I read it for the first time about four years ago. Since then, I have been refactoring for a long time in different projects with different prog...

HardQuery Report: 5.3.2.1125 Can Work With C++Builder 2007

I have just installed the trial version of C++Builder 2007 and built CBC HardQuery against .NET 2.0 and ToolsAPI 5.0. And then I manually added the needed registry item. Launch C++Builder 2007 and ...

Chinese Blog Service Providers' War

Take a look at Windows Live Writer’s supported weblog list, you will see no Chinese weblog provider there even though they claims themselves best service providers around here. What they are thinki...