Been a while, a long enough actually, past 3 months and half ago, my eventually marriage with a lovely girl, Fanita Meilisa. Because the marriage was held in Bogor, my family and I went a day before the date from Malang. While I kept stayed a week, my family went back to Malang the day after the marriage. Fortunately, my brother finally was able to come even in the middle of the night. He was really busy, since he’s still taking residency to be Orthopedic specialist. I’m so grateful for his coming.

Me and My Wife with one of the dowry

Have you ever use Windows Explorer or other programs, then you’ll probably notice the hint text in the status bar whenever you hover the mouse pointer on a menu item. This will help user and add application’s usability by providing user support. In C# after we set tooltip/hint text in each menu items, it will not immediately appear in the Status Bar (in .NET it is commonly known with StatusStrip). In Delphi it’s easy to display the hint text in the status bar by assigning handler in Application.OnHint event as follows: (Read more…)

These recent days, my blog is hit by spam attack, Trackback spam. Just in few days, when I was not at home and was in Jakarta-Bogor for spending my weekend, my blog got so many spam I ever had, up to 2500 (and after few weeks, around 28.000). The Trackback itself actually is good in intention, but petty minded people use trackback spambot to raise up their web rank (which is actually NOT WORKING at all). What the heck Trackback is? what is the benefits and why it can be categorized as spam?

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This time I’m giving an example of Owner Drawing/Painting on a component/toolkit in desktop applications (in the web, it’s a lot easier, using CSS). By defining Owner Drawing/Painting we can make different appearance on our components as such applying theme on them. For example, initially ordinary Buttons can be displayed more impressive, with gradient color and appears much more attractive.
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