Tales of a blog renamer

Delegates in C# serve a few common purposes: asynchronous method invocation, event handling and callback functions. This article builds a nice example that shows all three of these roles in an entertaining format:

http://www.sellsbrothers.com/writing/default.aspx?content=delegates.htm

All of these patterns are very common and good documentation on them is very hard to find. Kudos to the author!

Today, I needed to make an application shortcut (.desktop file) that prompted for arguments. I searched Google ten different ways and couldn't find any posts on doing what should be a simple task. I finally solved the mystery in a highly ghetto way - I used bash to find all binaries that begin with K. When I saw kdialog I knew how to do it. Good luck ever finding this on Google:

server=`kdialog --inputbox "Server to connect to"` ; rdesktop -x l -a 24 -u administrator -g 1024x768 $server