http://www.kivela.be Developers blog, star date 47410.2 Mon, 16 Nov 2009 22:25:56 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Hi y'all, Just finished updating intellitunes and uploaded the new version to the old location. What changed ? - Support for processing all songs of your itunes lib in one run - Changed the searching on amazon for artwork to comply to the new regulations - Changed the way to search for lyrics from lyricwiki.org ... http://www.kivela.be/index.php/2009/11/17/updated-intellitunes-today/ intelliTunes - GimmeSomeTune clone. Download the latest version here or visit the intelliTunes page here. Since this is I-needed-it-so-I-build-it-ware you can always email me if you have a question / suggestion or found a bug ! The application is basically a port of the functionality I miss when I am on ... http://www.kivela.be/index.php/2008/08/26/intellitunes-itunes-addition/ Have you ever had the need to parse an rtf file to normal text ? One option (and the easiest one) is just using the RichTextControl, setting its RTF property and getting its text property. If however your not in a UI project it just smells to add a controls ... http://www.kivela.be/index.php/2008/07/04/rtf-stripper/ A while back we decided to add an 'insert hyperlink' button to the announcement lists on our team system project portals (sharepoint services 3.0). After looking up many articles claiming we had to change our Schema.xml files, javascript files or even creating custom buttons, I discovered the following solution. First ... http://www.kivela.be/index.php/2008/03/25/insert-hyperlink-button-on-moss-announcement-lists/ It took me 3 months before even bothering to look it up, and now I found it, I can't imagine not using it, so just a quick share to other macbook / airbook owners. Even in OSX it is possible to double click by double tapping the trackpad, although it isn't ... http://www.kivela.be/index.php/2008/02/20/enabling-double-tap-as-double-click-in-osx/ Just a quick tip for all you codeplex/codeproject code downloading junkies Solution for assigning a strong name to a third party DLL using your visual studio command prompt. E.g. Lets say the name of the third party DLL is myTest.dll. Step 1: Dis-assemble the assembly ildasm ... http://www.kivela.be/index.php/2007/12/11/strong-signing-a-third-party-assembly-in-net/ As some of you already mailed me, I kind of stopped blogging by the end of the Chennai adventure... So what happened in the meanwhile ? Things got pretty hectic at work, got hooked on Guild Wars (dropped WoW for it) and after a few weeks decided that I had to stop ... http://www.kivela.be/index.php/2007/12/11/breaking-radio-silence/ Last week I received an invitation to go to the wedding reception of Deepak and Sunitha. (Sunitha is an Indian colleague) It was an honour and quite an experience for me. In India it is quite normal to have +500 people on your wedding reception,... and you all get to eat ... http://www.kivela.be/index.php/2007/08/30/deepak-and-sunithas-wedding/ Last saturday my colleagues and me were asked to leave the Dublin club at 12 o'clock. At that point it was not clear to us why the club closed so soon, and everybody was in such a rush to leave. On sunday when we watched the news it all made ... http://www.kivela.be/index.php/2007/08/30/hyderabad-bombings/ The last couple of days my colleagues and I noticed that there was a lot, err... even more garbage on street corners than normal in Chennai. We found out why... RESIDENTS OF three thickly populated zones of Chennai have had to put up with piles of stinking garbage for the ... http://www.kivela.be/index.php/2007/08/30/chennais-newest-problem/ Today we went back to Mahabalipuram because our colleague Davy wasn't in India the previous time. Instead of writing up a big story I'll just let the photos talk. Indian style warning signs No kidding... Death wish Guess what Please don't jump... How many crocodiles can you fit in one pit ? 391 for sure Me holding ... http://www.kivela.be/index.php/2007/08/25/mahabalipuram-the-saga-continues/ Thursday my colleagues and I went for an nighttime visit to saint thomas church and marina beach. As always you can find the pictures on my picasaweb account. San Thome Basilica is a Roman Catholic cathedral in Santhome, in the city of Chennai, India. It was built in the 16th century by ... http://www.kivela.be/index.php/2007/08/24/st-thomas-and-marina-beach/ Just a small tip to all colleagues visiting India after me. After a few days of diarrhea the 'Do It Yourself Diarrhea Repair Sheet' tells you to take Perflore together with the loperamide. This works like a charm for the diarrhea but whatever you do, do not drink (KingFisher) on top of ... http://www.kivela.be/index.php/2007/08/24/perflore-and-kingfisher/ The last days of the week I've spend a lot of hours at work together with my Chennai colleagues. I must say that I was impressed to see that they followed the Scrum methodology like we do in Belgium with all the necessary meetings and even the test driven development but ... http://www.kivela.be/index.php/2007/08/19/a-weekend-in-chennai/ Yesterday my colleagues and I went to Mahabalipuram to see the temples. Our driver however knew some great Wildlife park we should visit first. And so we did. The 'Park' is called Crocodile Bank and is nothing like the zoo's you can visit in Europe. If they say ... http://www.kivela.be/index.php/2007/08/16/mahabalipuram-temples-and-the-crocodile-bank/