Last week, out of some curiosity and with intention to explore the features of Google AdSense, I decide to apply for the Google AdSense account. Though my personal site, the one you are looking at right now, is definitely not one of those heavy users base site, but I still get around 2,000 unique visitors […]
PHP CURL and Peer Certificate Issue
I have been using the Microsoft Translator API for some time, and it worked great. This API requires the “Access Token” to validate all the AJAX calls, and it has been working fine for months. Now a few days back, it broke, and when debugging the issue, I found that it was failing with the […]
Word Press Syntax Highlighter, Again!
After struggling with “Google Code Prettify” plug-in for over a year, I decided for a change and this time I went for the WP-Syntax plug-in: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-syntax/other_notes/ Like all other WordPress plug-ins, this was not only easy to install, but is based on open source syntax highlighter GeSHi. My first expression after using this is “Wow! it looks […]
Unicode Programming In Microsoft Visual C/C++
If you program Unicode applications using Microsoft Visual C/C++ compiler, then you most probably use the TCHAR strings. While using TCHAR strings is very easy, one of the most common problem for me, after a years of ANSI string experience, is to find a correct C/C++ string function to do the same job as I […]
Command Line Arguments Processing in Win32 Application
It’s common for Windows executable to get and process the additional parameters from the command line. This way you can pass any custom actions when launching an application i.e. open a particular file, print a file, control the application visibility state, etc. If you are working on C/C++ console application, then you can easily get […]