Category Archives: Ideas

The Magic of Embedded Webservers

Posted on July 13, 2010 by Ekow Abaka

Sometimes non web-based applications you build may be installed on servers which are not physically accessible to you. In such cases you might want to rely on configuration files and log files to find out the status of your application. … Continue reading →

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Soft Shadows in OpenOffice.org using Gimp

Posted on December 20, 2009 by Ekow Abaka

There is no doubt about the fact that soft shadows make any piece of graphics stand out. It adds that extra touch of professionalism to any illustration and it makes the illustrations look and feel just right in any document … Continue reading →

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Compiling PortMidi in Windows with Eclipse/MinGW

Posted on September 28, 2009 by Ekow Abaka

Why I did this? Over the past few weeks I have been working on this project which in some ways uses MIDI. I have primarily been working in Linux  but I had plans of porting the finished application to windows. … Continue reading →

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Automating TV Broadcasting – “SQLite saves the day!”

Posted on June 23, 2008 by Ekow Abaka

To graduate in my school one has to work on a graduation project. For my project I decided to build a TV broadcast automation system. What exactly was this system supposed to do? Well, the whole idea was to build … Continue reading →

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QuickBasic to RapidQ to FreeBASIC? … or what?

Posted on May 28, 2008 by Ekow Abaka

After several years of teaching myself to program computers using Microsoft QuickBASIC, I got to a point somewhere in 2002 when I realized that the MS-DOS era was over. I needed an alternative. All roads were leading to VisualBASIC but … Continue reading →

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