Articles by Chris Howie

  1. What's in a name?

    Quite a bit, if you're Gtk#.

    I've implemented the popup user menu in WikiBench.MediaWikiIntegration, along with the extension points for other addins to insert their own menu items into the menu. They can either provide a type extension using a class that derives Gtk.MenuItem, or a ...

  2. What's the point...

    If you don't like rants you may not want to read this post. But quite frankly I can't hold it in anymore.

    College has drained me. Not merely to the point of having no energy (when does college not do that) but to the point where I just ...

    Tagged as : Personal Rant
  3. When FarmVille == Productivity

    Update 2010-02-08: Jonathan Pryor has merged many of my extension methods into [Cadenza][]. I'd strongly suggest checking it out.

    It's no secret to my friends that I love to program... even more so as I've been developing a [FarmVille][] client in C# and having them test it ...

    Tagged as : C#
  4. Why I hate IM contact groups

    Or at least as they are currently implemented. (Rambling rant alert!)

    Almost every IM client on the planet has the concept of a group. You create a group, give it a name, and populate it with your contacts. At first glance, this is useful.

    Having used IM clients since the ...

    Tagged as : Rant Instant messaging
  5. WikiBench

    I've been fiddling around with Mono.Addins and have decided that I will be rewriting VandalSniper from the ground up. I've had a lot of ideas for it that have become way too complicated to implement with the current design. VandalSniper was my first C#/Gtk# project anyway ...

  6. WikiBench: Persistence

    One of the things I'd been dreading implementing in WikiBench is state persistence. This is, however, very important. When the user closes the application, they should find it in the same state they left it in when they open it later.

    This is a tricky one to get right ...

    Tagged as : C# VandalSniper Wikipedia
  7. Yet another monolithic update

    I need to get into the habit of blogging more often. I haven't even been twittering much lately...

    You've probably noticed the visual update to my blog by now. I got tired of the default Wordpress theme. I had to tweak this one a bit to get it ...

    Tagged as : Games OpenVP Personal
  8. You don't have signal

    My DSL and phone service is due to be activated today. When I got up I had dialtone, which is a good sign. But a few days ago I had an interesting encounter that was just too humorous not to share.

    On Thursday the DSL modem showed up but since ...

    Tagged as : Personal AT&T

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