The Blog of Mark (SoftCoder) and Vickie Vejvoda

Technology and Software Development

Having worked on an RTS (real time strategy) open source game at sourceforge.net, I came across many challenges but also learned many things related to the world of open source. This article will attempt to discuss some of those things in the hope that the information helps other developers in the open source realm. I [...]

Recently while trying to compile wxWidgets for the open source project glest, I kept getting errors in VC++ 2008 express edition related to pre-compiled headers. The errors were:
fatal error C1085 … The parameter is incorrect.
In my case the solution was found here (see Gary Gilbreath’s comment.. especially item #3)
I was compiling on a mapped network [...]

I have for some time had an interest and have studied financial systems for Canada and America. At first my interest came when I worked for an online stock trading company, at which time I took the Canadian Securities course (CSC) which I never completed.
I learned so much about the “real” side of the system [...]

I do a lot of work these days in Java and recently I wanted to be able to test a web application that uses Java Applets from my Ubuntu Karmic client. When loading the first applet and viewing the Applet Console window I noticed Firefox would hang and the last line in the console was:
network: [...]

First Follow the steps here. I found that no matter how hard I tried to fix “Sending” emailing using my hotmail account did not solve the issue. I tried a wacky step and it solved my problem:
In Thunderbird goto:
Edit->Account Settings->Outgoing Server (SMTP)
and select your hotmail server (smtp.live.com) and click edit
Now just UNCHECK the “Use name [...]