Browsing archives for September, 2009

Hacker Diet Progress for September

Personal 30 September 2009 | 0 Comments

hackdiet-september

It’s time once again to review my diet progress, now at two months in. The last week or so of the month were a little dispiriting, as I felt I had fallen into a dastardly plateau (and also a little “bounce” around the 15th) that I couldn’t break out of. I only lost about ten [...]

Drag and Drop Reordering of ListView Items in C#

Programming 16 September 2009 | 2 Comments

For a C# project I’m working on I wanted to implement a ListView control in a Windows Form. After some extensive Googling and searching through some cruddy examples on CodeProject and the like, I finally stumbled across what I needed under the MSDN documentation for the ListView.InsertionMark Property. There’s no easy way to find that [...]

Inspiration through constraint

Personal 15 September 2009 | 0 Comments

Lifehacker just ran a good article about the importance of pet projects, the most interesting part of which, to me, was the section titled “The Joys of Creative Constraints.” In his book, Chuck Amok, Chuck Jones talks about how the set of rules he and the other Warner Brothers writers set down for their cartoons [...]