The Blog of Mark (SoftCoder) and Vickie Vejvoda

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What can you do with your local public library? Before I get into some ideas for you in your own particular environment allow me a moment to describe my own environment. Our family has enjoyed one of the best public library systems in the country, the Okanagan Regional Library (ORL) System. Why is this particular [...]

With a title like Utopia many thoughts come to mind, from many different perspectives. One reference here gives some generalities and opinions of what this might be. Utopia cannot be a person or a place because people and places change. Utopia I believe is found in a condition. This condition may be perpetual or temporal. [...]

This evening we had our first batch of goat kids born, one male and one female. The father is a papered pure bred French Alpine buck, the mother is a strong hearty Nubian. The male kid looks like the mother and the female looks like the father. In 3-4 weeks we’ll have fresh goats milk [...]

The season of change is in the air and so it is time to meditate on an important Biblical principle that directly applies to change, that of conformity. Consider the following inverse passages:
[KJV] Romans 8:29
For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he [...]

This posting is an attempt to catch-up and share random findings related to porting a win32 client/server application to a self installing activeX object deployed via a CAB file, Internet Explorer integration, Inter-process communication considerations, activeX <–> browser communication, updates on our family Ubuntu experiences and more.
Part 1 – ActiveX experiences:
Take a deep breath as [...]