Archive for September, 2006

Start small and work up

Posted on September 28th, 2006 by aaron
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I re-learned an important lesson tonight: start small and work up from there.
I was working on creating a Form that intercepts the WM_MOUSEACTIVATE message to prevent a click from stealing focus from another form (i.e. a menu, or a drop down list). In my experimentation I had a “grand” idea to create a class [...]

Firefox Tip

Posted on September 11th, 2006 by aaron
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This is probably so ridiculous it’s just silly.
As I read a blog entry or a web site I will open interesting links in a new tab within Firefox. That way I can read uninterrupted but still have the relevant links available as soon as I’m done.
For example, if I want to know who [...]