How to overcome an error message preventing you from saving a change in an SQL Server database

Introduction

When a change is made directly into a table, there might be cases where saving isn't possible. This tip explains the reasons and the possible actions to take in su...

Introduction

Many desktop application developers need to uniquely identify the computer in which their software is running on. Such identification must produce a unique data element which will be different per each computer and will reproduce the same ID on any given co...

Introduction

The purpose of this tip is to show you how to find the default Skype's account name.

The Problem

I needed to code a function that extracts data from the default Skype account on a given computer. To do so, I first needed to locate the default account name. I...

Introduction

During 1989, while developing Rashumon, I found myself looking for a copy protection solution for Amiga software but there wasn’t any. The Amiga had a very non standard Parallel port, which made it impossible to just adopt a copy protection dongle from othe...

Introduction 

This article describes a simple application that can place a list of words, in either right-to-left or left-to-right language in a matrix, as a crossword. 

 

Background 

A crossword is a word puzzle created from a grid of white and black squares, placing wo...