My new desktop

Last night, I installed Farsi Language Interface Pack on my PC at work to test the localization features of our application. This is how my desktop looks now:

Everything is from right to left. And it is very difficult to browse through stuff on my PC. May be I’ll get used to it.

NAnt: Signing satellite assemblies

I use NAnt to build my code. But, a few days ago, my code started throwing System.Resources.MissingManifestResourceException. I found that the code worked fine when I built it from VS.NET.
I was using resources for localization in my project. And it turned out that the generated satellite assembly wasn’t being signed when I was building my [...]

A funny quote

“Life is a disease – sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal.”
- Neil Gaiman

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“Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker is sorry.”
- Samuel Langhorne Clemens a.k.a. Mark Twain

Binary arithmetic: A musing

NOTE: I assume that you are familiar with binary arithmetic. If not, read this first. If the link is broken, please drop in a comment. I’ll fix it as soon as possible.
On a dark, lonely night, my mind started venturing into the realms of binary arithmetic. I thought why we can’t convert binary numbers [...]

Weird problem with shdocvw.dll

I had added a reference to shdocvw.dll in my project. Everything was working fine till day before yesterday. After I left office on Monday night, shdocvw.dll got unregistered somehow. So, when I returned back to work on Tuesday morning, I found that all applications referencing shdocvw.dll were broken and wouldn’t compile. The applications kept popping [...]