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How to Find the Application Name of a PocketPC CAB Installer

chris — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 03:35:47 +0000

A while back, I needed to write a program that could manage the installation and uninstallation of programs on the PocketPC\Windows Mobile platform. The program needed to install CAB file X from location Y, note what it had installed from location Y, and then later uninstall it. It had to do this all programatically with no user intervention.

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I’m Getting Married!!!

chris — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 01:50:06 +0000

I know it’s cliché to say, but a lot of people that have known me my whole life probably thought this would never happen. That is, until they met Denicia and saw the impact had on me. Over the past 4 years, she’s put up with so much of my crap it’s a wonder she hasn’t killed me yet .

We’ll be getting married here in Austin on October 25th. Check out our wedding website at http://www.niciandchris.com.

IE7 CSS Bug: Adding ‘padding-top’ Value Twice

chris — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 14:09:24 +0000

I’ve spent some time at work trying to figure out why a

after our menu (where the menu is “float: left“) was showing up with more top padding than we were specifying. The extra padding only showed up in Internet Explorer 7:

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OS X 10.5 Display Sleeper Widget

chris — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 05:12:26 +0000

Back when I was using Tiger (10.4), I used the Sleep Display widget by Line Street Widgetry to instantly turn off my iMac’s display, but not sleep the entire machine. This was a necessity because the iMac doesn’t have a button to simply turn off the display, and it’s really annoying to wait for a 10 minute idle timeout when you’re trying to go to sleep.

Then, I upgraded to Leopard and found that this particular Sleep Display widget no longer worked. This was a bummer. I Googled around and found an application that did what I wanted, but I really wanted a dashboard widget and this was a great excuse to play with both Xcode and Dashcode and make it myself.

You can get the new widget at http://www.chriskarcher.net/software/displaysleeper.

p.s. After writing and publishing the widget, I found that you can easily sleep the display in Leopard by pressing Ctrl-Shift-Eject

Hiding the Progress Bar of a .NET 2.0 CF WebBrowser

chris — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 20:17:15 +0000

One of the nice additions to the .NET 2.0 Compact Framework is the WebBrowser control. This control has always been present in the full framework, but to implement a web browser on the PocketPC you would have had to either write your own managed wrapper or use an existing one such as OpenNETCF’s HTMLViewer. But now that it’s included in the CF, we should give it a try. Many developers, myself included, use an embedded browser control to display rich, custom formatted content in their .NET apps. You can do this with the WebBrowser class by generating the HTML and setting the DocumentText property on the control. However, the new managed WebBrowser has a major drawback: Everytime you set the DocumentText property it shows a progress bar while loading the content into the browser. As far as I can tell, this behavior is only on Windows Mobile 5 devices, not on PocketPC 2003. Read on to figure out how to disable this behavior.

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New Website!

chris — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 03:51:42 +0000

You’re looking at it. I’ll be moving all the old content as time permits. Please let me know if you run into any problems using the site. Try using the comment system!

Look for some changes over the next few days…

More Pictures

chris — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 03:36:02 +0000

I added about 30 more pictures to the Taos collection. Link is in the post below…

Taos Pictures

chris — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 06:54:44 +0000

Taos was awesome

Pictures at http://chriskarcher.net/photos/thumbnails.php?album=7

Justin also took some video footage of the trip which will be posted after the editing is complete. In the meantime, here’s a video made by Todd of Justin and Riley (maybe you’ll recognize the music):

Spring Break 2007

chris — Sat, 10 Mar 2007 03:05:38 +0000

I know, I know, I’ve graduated. I’m an adult that shouldn’t be going on Spring Break trips anymore. This trip was just too good to pass up though. We’re finally going skiing! I’ll be back in a week!

Off to Taos, NM:

The Last Day

chris — Fri, 22 Dec 2006 06:12:18 +0000

Our last day is over. Today was the Sex and the City tour, then some shopping, then Beauty and the Beast Broadway show. We’ve got to get up awful early tomorrow morning to make our flight, so I’m just going to say the day was fun and leave it at that.

A lot of the pictures from today are Sex and the City filming locations. Don’t be surprised if you don’t recognize any of them .

http://www.chriskarcher.net/photos/thumbnails.php?album=6