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This picture was in Westport, CT before I moved out to California. For those of you who know Westport, it was taken down by where Allan’s Clam Shack used to be. I like this picture because of the colors and the composition. It was a very beautiful day and I think it comes through in this shot. [](/assets/img/2008/09/westportgrasslands.jpg?ssl=1)Picture taken in Westport, CT

Have you seen the following C code sample: 1 2 char x = 1; char c = x["monkey"]; Do you know what it the value of c is? Don’t read on unless you want to know the answer and why. The value of c is ‘o’. Why? Well, I wrote some code to start playing around with this. The answer seemed simple, but here were some suggestions about why the answer is ‘o’: ...

This picture was also taken during my recent trip to wine country. The composition was actually created by a friend, but I took the shot, so I guess I own the image. I like this image, because I like the center flash line down the bottles through the table. I think it adds a little something. [](/assets/img/2008/09/edieandglass.jpg?ssl=1)Pictures of Edie with a whine Glass

This picture was taken last year, when I lived 3,000 miles away in Manhattan. This is a picture of the sidewalk next to the north cove marina down on the lower east side. This picture provides a very interesting perspective, and I believe this is also the first vertical picture I’ve posted. [](/assets/img/2008/09/northcovewalkway.jpg?ssl=1)Picture of the walkway next to North Cove Marina, Lower East Side.

Disclaimer: I am a mac user, but a windows programmer. MFC is Microsoft’s old Window framework. Basically it is an object oriented wrapper around the traditional Win32 programming environment presented by Microsoft to help develop windows. Win32 is many years old, and so is MFC. Microsoft’s new frameworks, .NET and WPF (Windows Presentation Framework) are supposedly better than MFC, but I have yet to play with them. MFC has tools for many different types of controls, from buttons to dialogs, windows, and menus. MFC allows the user to create the button, override some basic functionality, provide message callbacks and otherwise manipulate the application. Buttons are particularly interesting because the base class for buttons actually provides a ton of functionality for many different types of buttons. From this one class, you can get push buttons, check boxes, radio buttons, owner draw buttons (the programmer handles the rendering of these buttons), etc. ...