Articles from July 2008

Skydiving AFF Level I

This is the video of my Skydiving AFF Course Level 1. After the Tandem Jump this is really what I needed.

You definitely should try this.

posted on on Friday, July 25, 2008 by Tiago D'Herbe (266)

Skydiving AFF Level II

This is the video of my Skydiving AFF Course Level 2. I had to perform several exercises and I've felt like I had all the time in the world... until 5800ft.

But mostly and once again I had lots of fun.

posted on on Friday, July 25, 2008 by Tiago D'Herbe (236)

World of Workcraft

Hilarious movie showing the characters of World of Warcraft in their off-time.

posted on on Tuesday, July 15, 2008 by Tiago D'Herbe (161)

String Formatting in C#

String.Format is just so cool. It makes your code less spaghetti like and makes it easier to replace string values or add new values. It also allows you to see from a quick glance what your code does. It works similarly to the printf function in C++ that takes a string, and then is followed by parameters that specify what to plug into the string. I often need to access this info so I've made this post as a quick reference.

posted on on Tuesday, July 15, 2008 by Tiago D'Herbe (172)

Bypassing "Error applying transforms..." when updating BootCamp

I've installed BootCamp services from the CDs that came with my MacPro. After a few days Apple Software update advised that a new update for BootCamp services was available but I couldn't install it because of an apparently not so uncomment message: "Error applying transforms. Verify that the...". This article describes how you can bypass this error and install the updates.

posted on on Monday, July 07, 2008 by Tiago D'Herbe (33974)

SharpCollect APIs - I. WMI for .Net

In this article I'm going to introduce a simple set of classes that can be used to aggregate property values for any of the hundreds of classes in the WMImajor namespace. I've built this for an asset management application for a electricity company which required retrieving WMI information from local and remote computers.

posted on on Monday, July 07, 2008 by Tiago D'Herbe (261)

Optimizing Vista for a DAW

Like in Windows XP, when Windows Vista is installed, Microsoft configure the operating system to enable and turn on background services based on the default recommended settings for Windows Vista services. However, not all of these running processes in background are been used, needed, critical or necessary. Now that I've struggled for the best setup with my new MacPro running Vista OS here is a quick guide of my experience to free up and conserve memory, reduce RAM usage and CPU resources.

posted on on Wednesday, July 02, 2008 by Tiago D'Herbe (5488)