Archives for August 2007
HD DVD Looks Set to Beat Blu-Ray
DreamWorks Animation and Paramount Pictures have recently joined Universal Studios in favouring Toshiba’s HD DVD format over that of Sony’s Blu-ray. An article in the Economist cites the following reasons for it:
An HD DVD can be stamped out using the same sort of equipment as a conventional DVD, which makes it cheaper to produce.
HD DVD […]
Excel NORMDIST Function in VB6
I was converting formulae in Excel to VB6 when I hit a stumbling block: there is no equivalent NORMDIST function in VB6. Fortunately someone had written a NormDist function in C# so it was just a matter of translating C# to VB6. As far as my testing goes it seems to be accurate within seven […]
Basic Instructions
The comedian Scott Meyer has online comic strip called Basic Instructions. I love it! I almost died trying to hold in my laughter at the office. Here’s my absolute favourite:
I have obtained Mr. Meyer’s permission to reproduce his work on my blog, by the way. He wrote, “Please do! As long as I get credit […]
Google Docs: Web-Based PDF Converter
I just discovered this and it blew my mind - you can use Google Docs as a quick PDF converter. Just upload your file to Google Docs and click File –> Save as PDF.
I tried it with a Word document. As long as your formatting isn’t too fancy it should work fine. Google Docs also […]
ActiveWidgets Grid 1.0.2
My client, who is, amongst other things, a freelance civil engineer and a VB6 programmer, asked me to create a web-based version of his standalone Windows application. He wanted nothing less than an exact replica.
How to do a VB6-style ListView in HTML? I searched Google and found ActiveWidgets. Beautiful, they have a Javascript ListView (they […]