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WAMP and https
Why is this important? It looks like the BluePrint-Q preview is broken on the WordPress themes directory: https://wordpress.org/themes/blueprintq-draft/ Turns out that some assets are expecting to be loaded through http, but the theme directory is using https, which...
Talking between computers
WPF is pretty awesome and I have a decent chunk of experience going with it. However, I never really had a need to investigate the WCF side - Microsoft's answer to communicating between machines. So, I am looking for a complete comprehensive tutorial that would start...
Thematic fonts
Google fonts is a pretty awesome collection of web fonts. There must be at least 500 of them. Recently, I've gone through all of them for a project and, because it is such a time-consuming task, I took note of fonts that could possibly be used for very specific...
Using the escape key to close a WPF window
After being disappointed with Android development, I'm ramping back up on WPF. I have a full screen app and no buttons visible, so I would like to implement the ESC key to close the window instead of using ALT+F4. Looking around the net, I can do this by putting a...
Android native development disappointment
Google does a lot of good things. Unfortunately, welcoming new developers to its primary OS is not one of them. I've spent the past 4-5 days developing a number of Android apps as proofs for a new project. My overall experience has been lackluster and I want to...
Android Studio’s Odd “Unresolved Symbol R” Error
I was working in an Android app and was able to compile and run just fine for a little while. All of a sudden, the "R" constant used to reference resources turned red (unrecognized). After a decent amount of searching, I found that I had to click "Build >>...