The world of Arlene and Joachim Pileborg

I'm working again

arrow — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 12:33:47 +0000

As usual, I'm all to quiet, and very bad at updating my little blog. However, a couple of weeks back something nice happened, and I simply have to write about it!

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Visual Studio 2010 hang in VirtualBox

arrow — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 06:21:10 +0000

For several days I have been trying to get Visual Studio 2010 working in VirtualBox. The symptoms were that the GUI hanged on start, but the actual application responded to events like resizing, moving and closing. A hint for the solution was found at this article on Stack Overflow.

It turns out that I had to disable the 3D-acceleration in the virtual machine. After that, everything works as it should.

Original post blogged on b2evolution.

Unicode, UTF-8 and wchar_t in C++

arrow — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 02:56:06 +0000

The last few days I have tried to make sense of Unicode and how to handle files stored in UTF-8. After some major headscratching I think I figured it out.

Original post blogged on b2evolution.

Reset

admin — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 00:38:56 +0000

If there is anyone who has checked this blog a couple of time, they will notice that the contents hav now been reset. It seems that the database of the blog, or something else, had been corrupted. So here we are again, trying one more time.

Original post blogged on b2evolution.