Interview in Dr. Dobb's Journal

A "Developer Diaries" article:<link>

Automatically backup your computer for free

Automatically backup up to 2 gigs worth of data for free. Or as much data as you want, for only $4.95 a month. Goto mozy.com.

Update: Some people are concerned about their data going to mozy.com, no matter how much the vendor says they're careful with our data. If this is a concern, I think the best thing to do is to encrypt the data that gets sent there. A free tool from truecrypt.org should do the job.

How to convert .NET DateTime to Variant Time in VBA

Article published May 18, 2007: article link.

Object Oriented C

Article published January, 2004: link.

(older link in case the above doesn't work: link.)

Copy Constructors and Assignment Operators

Article published August, 2005: link

(Original article: link)

Zapped -- Lasik surgeory

Article published may 19th, 2004: article link.

Variant Streaming Code

Article published October, 2000: link.

Not calling Dispose should cause GC to throw an exception

listserver thread entry published July 2000: article link.

True Inheritance with JavaScript

Latest version: link

History:

• As originally published in April, 1999: link.
• As referenced by the Computer Science Department at the Rochester Institute of Technology, see section titled "Some resources for doing OO programming in JavaScript" under "10.3.1. Core language", at http://www.cs.rit.edu/~mjh/base/resources/languages.xml

Calculating fibonacci series at compile-time

#include <stdio.h>

// The following code prints out the first five elements of the
// fibonacci series without calculating the values at runtime.

template <int param>
struct CFibonacci
{
    static const value;
};

template <int param>
const CFibonacci<param>::value = 
CFibonacci<param - 2>::value + CFibonacci<param - 1>::value;

const CFibonacci<0>::value = 0;
const CFibonacci<1>::value = 1;


void main( void )
{
    printf( "%d\n", CFibonacci<1>::value );
    printf( "%d\n", CFibonacci<2>::value );
    printf( "%d\n", CFibonacci<3>::value );
    printf( "%d\n", CFibonacci<4>::value );
    printf( "%d\n", CFibonacci<5>::value );
}

Visual DLL articles and posts

Visual DLL opinions: article link.
Instinct reference: article link.

Call DLL functions -- Rules for manually pushing arguments on the stack.

Posted in January, 1995: article link.

My early antics pre-internet.

It was 1985, and I was reading my favorite computer magazine, Antic and was floored to see my name mentioned in print.  I had forgotten, but apparently I wrote a "letter" to the magazine describing some programming trick.   I remember seeing the text, "Kudos to Kenny Ksajikian".

My English wasn't so good, so I had to look up "Kudos", which made the phrase stuck in my mind.   Decades later I google that term, and ouala --> Kudos' to Kenny Ksajikian.