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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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

A popular adage is that “A picture is worth a thousand words”. Same is true for the graphs/chart, which is a visualization of your raw data, and gives a bird-eye-view of your thousands of lines of data on a single screen. Basecamp is pouplar web-based Project Management solution. They have millions of hours of data, […]