Eric Bergman-Terrell's Blog Archive

2012

Date Title
May 08 Vault 3 for Android Updated: Got Rid of Most Modal Dialogs
April 19 Android Programming Tip: How to react to Enter typed in an EditText Field
April 06 Vault 3 v. 0.47 Released, Now Has PDF Export
March 18 Old Wine in New, Blue, Tentacled Wineskins?
March 18 May 20, 2012 Annular Eclipse, Good Viewing in Albuquerque, NM
March 13 Vault 3 v. 0.46 Released
February 28 There's a Word for That: Skeuomorph
February 26 Android Programming Tip: Light Sensor is Disabled on Kindle Fire
February 08 Android Programming Tip: Corrupt SQLite Database Files are Automatically Deleted
January 21 Windows 7 Tip: What to do if Windows 7 is not choosing the fastest network connection
January 17 Vault 3 Updated with Mac Key Chords
January 09 Using Eclipse for Rails Development

2011

Date Title
December 11 Vault 3 for Android v. 1.19
November 30 Ruby on Rails: Installing Ruby on Rails on Linux Mint 12
November 28 Ruby on Rails: Configuring the Email Protocol
November 25 Well Done, site5
November 23 Ruby on Rails 3.1.1: Creating Custom 404 Pages
November 22 Ruby on Rails Versus ASP.NET MVC: WHOIS
November 21 Ruby on Rails: Installing Ruby on Rails on Linux Mint 11
September 18 Ruby on Rails: How to Install Ruby on Rails on Ubuntu 11.04
August 21 PowerShell Tip: Prompt the User for a Key Press
August 11 PowerShell Tip: Determine the Drive Letter Corresponding to a Volume Name
August 07 Vault 3 v. 0.43 Now Available
July 29 Latest Source code for Vault 3 Available
July 29 Vault 3 for Android v. 1.15 Now Available
July 29 32-bit Mac OS X Version of Vault 3 Now Available
May 18 Android Programming Tip: Kill the Application
May 16 Android Programming Tip: Catch and Log Uncaught Exceptions
May 14 Android Programming Tip: Displaying AdMob Ads
May 11 Vault 3 is now available for Android
April 26 An Android Version of Vault 3 will be Available Soon
February 27 Getting AES Encryption/Decryption to Work in the Sun JVM and Android
February 05 Vault 3 v. 0.38 Is Now Available
February 01 Vault 3 Is Now Available for 64-bit Mac OS X!

2010

Date Title
December 17 Opera 11 is now my Default Web Browser
November 16 Vault 3 v. 0.37 is now available
October 04 Troubleshooting Tip: How to determine which programs are listening to which TCP/IP Ports
October 04 ASP.NET Tip: How to programmatically add <META> tags to .aspx page
October 04 ASP.NET Tip: How to add an RSS feed to your website
October 04 Math Tip: How to Determine the Great Circle Distance Between Two Geographical Locations
October 04 Math Tip: How to Determine the Angle Between Two Geographical Locations
October 04 .NET Programming Tip: How to Exit from a Console Application
October 04 .NET Programming Tip: How to Restrict a Program to a Single Instance
October 04 .NET Programming Tip: How to send an e-mail via SMTP
October 04 .NET Programming Tip: How to Determine the Encoding of a Unicode File
October 04 .NET Programming Tip: How can a class implement multiple interfaces containing methods with identical signatures?
October 04 .NET Programming Tip: How to Attractively Scale Bitmaps
October 04 .NET Programming Tip: How to Extract the Timestamp from a JPEG File's EXIF Metadata
October 04 .NET Programming Tip: How to Determine System Uptime Without Overflow Issues
October 04 .NET Programming Tip: How to test private methods with NUnit
October 04 .NET Programming Tip: How to Extract Multiple Items Using One Regular Expression
October 04 .NET Programming Tip: How to Programmatically Send Folders and/or Files to the Recycle Bin
October 04 .NET Programming Tip: How to Format XML Attractively
September 04 .NET Programming Tip: How to Encode XML Strings
August 02 Updated Vault 3 Build Instructions for Eclipse 3.6
June 25 Vault 3 Version 0.35 Now Available
June 13 .NET Programming Tip: How to Display a Busy Cursor While Loading a WPF TextBox with a Large Amount of Text
June 12 .NET Programming Tip: How to Commit CheckBox Changes to a WPF DataGrid Immediately
May 05 Get Control Key Chords to Work in VirtualBox
May 02 Time and Tide Wait for No Man
April 30 Vault 3 v. 0.33 - Maximum Password Length Restriction Removed
April 29 Old Windows 7 Tree Icons Never Die, They Just Fade Away
January 27 Essential Tools for Source Code Control
January 03 FileZilla Versus the Windows 7 FTP Client

2009

Date Title
November 30 The Global Busy Signal Alliance
November 06 Vault 3 Version 0.21 Released
October 31 Vault 3 on Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala"
August 12 Running Microsoft Visual SourceSafe 6.0d on Windows 7
May 11 How to Create an ODBC Data Source in 64-bit Windows XP
May 03 VirtualBox 2.2.2 Fixes USB Issues
April 27 Vault 3 is Out of Beta!
April 23 Run Vault 3 from a Flash Drive
April 05 I'd like to thank the Academy... (or, Vault 3 Promotional Video on YouTube)
April 02 Vault 3 Can Now Export Photos to Devices Such as Photo Frames and USB Drives
March 19 Java Tip: How to Speed Up SWT Image Scaling
March 15 Vault 3 v. 0.08 - Feature Complete?
March 01 VirtualBox versus VMWare Server
February 21 Extreme Portability (Software, Hardware, Data, and Source Code)
January 29 Vault 3
January 28 Java Tip: How to correctly position the cursor when a context menu is requested on a StyledText widget
January 19 Java Tip: Get the Application Folder
January 16 Java Tip: Avoid Automatically Selecting the First Item in a Context Menu on Ubuntu
January 15 Java Tip: Enable your SWT/JFace Application to Prompt to Save Changes during Windows Shutdown

2008

Date Title
December 11 Java Tip: Make a JFace Dialog remember its size and position
December 10 .NET Development on Linux
November 23 Java Tip: Parsing an XML File with Embedded Spaces with SAX
November 15 Java Tip: How to read a file and automatically specify the correct encoding
October 11 Getting VMware Server 2.0 to Install and Run
August 28 Upgraded to Windows XP Professional x64 Edition
August 06 "Embed Custom GUIs in WPF" article published in Dr. Dobb's
June 18 Firefox 3.0 + Flashblock = Bliss
April 09 Help! My SanDisk Sansa e280 FM Radio Doesn't Work!
April 05 Transfer Tivo Recordings to your SanDisk Sansa e280 with Free Software
April 03 Getting WinAmp to not crash when managing content on a Sandisk Sansa e280 Player
March 30 Blurry Text in WPF

2007

Date Title
December 02 Transfer Tivo Recordings to your Zune in 4 Easy (?) Steps
November 06 How to Programmatically Read a Locked Log4Net Log File
October 18 How to Back Up an SQL Server 2005 Database Hosted on a Shared Server?
October 10 Added WHOIS Domain Registration Information Utility
September 21 7-Zip Rules!
September 19 Norton Save & Restore 2.0 Review
January 21 (Not) Stupid Javascript Trick

2006

Date Title
December 16 Show Me the GAC!
December 03 Paint.NET is a Winner!
December 01 Let Sleeping Laser Printers Lie
November 30 Do You Think You Had a Really Bad Day?
November 24 XML Notepad 2007 v. 2.1 Released
November 19 Replacing .BAT Files with PowerShell Scripts
November 18 Good Reasons to Download Firefox 2.0
November 17 PowerShell RTMs, and I've Written My Last .BAT Command File
July 19 SharpDevelop 2 Released
July 13 Lady and the Stamp
July 09 Lutz Roeder's Reflector is an Essential .NET Develoment Tool
June 15 Why I Love Firefox
June 02 Articles are Now On-Line