Aug/090
Viewing page source after JS/AJAX changes
Ever needed to look at the source of a web page after it has been modified via JS/AJAX? In most browsers, viewing source on the page will show you the HTML as it was downloaded from the server before any changes were made “scriptually” . To view the source of the page as it is being currently displayed do the following:
Jul/090
Starting XNA Game Development
I’ve had a Wii for a while now have amassed quite a few games. My favourite title by fae would have to be Mario Galaxy. But lately I have been finding myself craving games that aren’t so “cutesy”.
Jun/090
Installing New Fonts for X11 on Mac OS X
Simply copy the ttf file to the .fonts directory in your home directory. If there is no .fonts directory, create one.
cd ~
mkdir .fonts
cp mynewfont.ttf ~/.fonts
May/098
Running NSTimer on Separate Thread
I’ve been working in something requiring an NTimer to fire every second. The documentation says that an NSTimer needs to be attached to a NSRunLoop to fire. So I started off with the following:
NSTimer* timer = [NSTimer timerWithTimeInterval:1.0 target:self selector:@selector(timerTick:) userInfo:nil repeats:YES];
[[NSRunLoop currentRunLoop] addTimer:timer forMode:NSEventTrackingRunLoopMode];
So, what I am doing here is creating a new NSTimer which fires in 1 second intervals and sends the timerTick message to self every time it fires. On the 2nd line, I am attaching the NSTimer object to the current runloop. This all worked fine. Until…!
Mar/080
Coup d’état
Overthrow of the ruling party by a part of the ruling establishment.
A recent event illustrating this is the overthrow of the democratically elected government of Pakistan by the military in 1999.
Mar/080
Javascript Essentials
Looking into creating my own ASP.Net Control Extenders (like in the Ajax Control Toolkit), I found myself having to brush up on my Javascript. So here is a quick revision of what I (and maybe you too) need to remember.
Function declaration:
function SayHelloTo(nameStr) {
document.write('Hello ' + nameStr);
}
Function with return statement:
function add(x, y) {
return x + y;
Mar/080
Windows Forms Fade in and Fade out Extension Methods
Following is some code I had to write the other day to fade a Windows Forms Form in and out of view. I have implemented the methods FadeIn and FadeOut as extension methods on the System.Windows.Forms.Form class. To use this, simply import the namespace that you copy the class FormExtensions into into the code file of your form. And then call the methods FadeIn and FadeOut as required. Happy Fading 
using System.Windows.Forms;
///
/// Contains methods to extend System.Windows.Forms.Form to have the ability to fade in and fade out
///
public static class FormExtensions
{
///
/// Fade the form in
///
///
public static void FadeIn(this Form form, int seconds)
{