The Blog of Mark (SoftCoder) and Vickie Vejvoda

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For a while I was looking for a good open source cross platform library to use for video playback in my open source software. After a long while I finally found libvlc, which does the job well.
If you want to see libvlc in action, with a wrapper class to play videos (local and streaming from [...]

It matters not whether politics or religion, business or family, left or right wing, this statement will always remain true:
Matthew 12:25 And Jesus knew their thoughts, and said unto them, Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation; and every city or house divided against itself shall not stand:
And Christ is asking every honest [...]

Once it is realized that world wide austerity itself cannot correct the current gross looming debt default, then real change will occur. The type of change will depend on how a) close your walk is with Christ and b) how awake you are to what is really happening and c) asking Christ what He expects [...]

What draws a person to want to help another? When asked, and ‘who is my neighbour’, Jesus gave us a parable speaking of a Samaritan who helped a Jew who was beaten by robbers and left to die. This Samaritan was a neighbour simply because the Samaritan helped the man in need. Jesus then said [...]