I have been working on a program that prints any document you provide to it, as long as there is an application installed on your computer that can handle that document. One issue that we have with it is Duplex printing, i.e. getting the documents to print double-sided. This is a story of how we [...]
We have a Microsoft Word template that contains macros, which was working fine but all of a sudden in the last few days, whenever you invoke the template you get the following error: If you open the template file instead of invoking a New document from it, you get a more detailed error: This [...]
Yesterday I attended a technical presentation on Character Sets. As I told the presenter afterwards, to me attending this meeting was like reading the Kitab-i-Iqan (book of certitude) and then looking at religious history – it was the key that suddenly made everything else clear. I had come across the terms Character Set, Character Encoding, collation, [...]
Today I discovered a nice service for getting quick answers to programming questions. I had come across StackOverflow.com before, but I actually had a question to ask now so I signed up and asked it. Within an hour, I had some responses, and in two hours I had many possible answers that would all work for [...]