Dmitry Kalashnikov http://klimb.com/blog Software Engineer Thu, 13 Mar 2008 19:03:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 en Cool http://klimb.com/blog/2008/03/13/cool/ http://klimb.com/blog/2008/03/13/cool/#comments Thu, 13 Mar 2008 19:03:52 +0000 Dmitry http://klimb.com/blog/2008/03/13/cool/ Hey showing some stuff to Mike

]]> http://klimb.com/blog/2008/03/13/cool/feed/ Unix Aliases for Cmd.exe http://klimb.com/blog/2008/02/28/unix-aliases-for-cmdexe/ http://klimb.com/blog/2008/02/28/unix-aliases-for-cmdexe/#comments Thu, 28 Feb 2008 01:39:33 +0000 Dmitry http://klimb.com/blog/2008/02/28/unix-aliases-for-cmdexe/ Create a shortcut:
Target C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe /k C:\Users\JohnDoe\Documents\profile.cmd
Start In C:\Users\JohnDoe

 Profile.cmd contents
@echo offprompt [$p]$_$gdoskey ls=dir $*doskey ll=dir $*doskey cat=type $*doskey ..=cd..doskey grep=find “$1″ $2doskey mv=ren $*doskey rm=del $*doskey pwd=direcho Environment is set
]]> http://klimb.com/blog/2008/02/28/unix-aliases-for-cmdexe/feed/ Moved to Ballard http://klimb.com/blog/2008/02/27/moved-to-ballard/ http://klimb.com/blog/2008/02/27/moved-to-ballard/#comments Wed, 27 Feb 2008 00:16:28 +0000 Dmitry http://klimb.com/blog/2008/02/27/moved-to-ballard/ I moved to Ballard last week, only a few blocks away from Stone Gardens. Johnny and my other friends live much closer now too. I really like my new place – it’s huge! Just the balcony is half the size of my old living room. The neighborhood is really cool, much quieter then Capitol Hill and no so liberal. Freemont is a bike ride away. I like all the local restaurants, like “Hi Life” or “The Matador”.

]]> http://klimb.com/blog/2008/02/27/moved-to-ballard/feed/ Hagakure http://klimb.com/blog/2007/11/20/hagakure/ http://klimb.com/blog/2007/11/20/hagakure/#comments Tue, 20 Nov 2007 22:53:41 +0000 Dmitry http://klimb.com/blog/2007/11/20/hagakure/ To give a person one’s opinion and correct his faults is an important thing. It is compassionate and comes first in matters of service. But the way of doing this is extremely difficult. To discover the good and bad points of a person is an easy thing, and to give an opinion concerning them is easy, too. For the most part, people think that they are being kind by saying the things that others find distasteful or difficult to say. But if it is not received well, they think that there is nothing more to be done. This is completely worthless. It is the same as bringing shame to a person by slandering him. It is nothing more than getting it off one’s chest.To give a person an opinion one must first judge well whether that person is of the disposition to receive it or not. One must become close with him and make sure that he continually trusts one’s word. Approaching subjects that are dear to him, seek the best way to speak and to be well understood.Judge the occasion and determine whether it s better by letter or at the time of leave-taking. Praise his good points and use every device to encourage him, perhaps by talking about one’s own faults without touching on his, but so that they will occur to him. Have him receive this in the way that a man would drink water when his throat is dry, and it will be an opinion that will correct faults.This is extremely difficult. If a person’s fault is a habit of some years prior, by and large it won’t be remedied. I have had this experience myself. To be intimate with all one’s comrades, correcting each other’s faults, and being of one mind to be of use to the master is the great compassion of a retainer. By bringing shame to a person, how could one expect to make him a better man?
  • Yamamoto Tsunetomo, Hagakure, The Book of the Samurai (1716)
]]> http://klimb.com/blog/2007/11/20/hagakure/feed/ Sprained Ankle http://klimb.com/blog/2007/11/10/sprained-ankle/ http://klimb.com/blog/2007/11/10/sprained-ankle/#comments Sat, 10 Nov 2007 03:43:17 +0000 Dmitry http://klimb.com/blog/2007/11/10/sprained-ankle/ Bummer! I injured my ankle while climbing at Stone Gardens. They just got done upgrading the floor at the gym – now it has a padded floor. No more rocks. As I came off the wall, my foot got stuck in-between pads and my body pivoted around it. I’ll be on crutches for a week and wear an ancle splint for a month. I guess its time to get strong on gymnastic rings again!

]]> http://klimb.com/blog/2007/11/10/sprained-ankle/feed/ The best climbing day of the year http://klimb.com/blog/2007/11/06/the-best-climbing-day-of-the-year/ http://klimb.com/blog/2007/11/06/the-best-climbing-day-of-the-year/#comments Tue, 06 Nov 2007 00:54:27 +0000 Dmitry http://klimb.com/blog/2007/11/06/the-best-climbing-day-of-the-year/ This weekend went to Leavenworth again and I’ve had a really good day of climbing. It was one of those perfect temperature zero-gravity days. I warmed up by ripping a hold off the problem that everyone was trying. Haha. Felt kinda bad about it, since we were all going to do it. Then we went up the hill and I ended up flashing some v8 and also flashing the harder, direct version of it!My friend Adam Heley came over from Portland with a bunch of his buddies, including Boone Speed. Johnny (Goicoechea), Lena, Cole, Kyle, and Joel Cambel were already there when I got to L-town. Later on that day we ran into John from EPIC (EWU) program and like 10 other people from Spokane. I’ve never seen that many monkeys at Leavenworth campgrounds before. Boone took some awesome pictures, Johnny, Cole and Joel went climbing at some new area they recently discovered. We all had fun and partied afterwards at the camp ground. Too bad I had to leave early in the morning to help my friend move.

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  1. By right clicking on Folder you’ll see “Shell” menu. It will let you cd to this folder with Powershell. I work with remote machines all the time, so I need it to work the same even with remote directories (by auto-mounting them).
  2. Right click on folder to browse it with “dired-mode” for XEmacs. Unless you’re an emacs fan, you don’t need this. If you are en emacs fan, you can’t live without it :)
  3. Right click file to edit it with XEmacs.

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]]> http://klimb.com/blog/2007/06/05/reserved-filename-in-windows/feed/ C# Events and Delegates explained to UNIX C/Java people! http://klimb.com/blog/2007/02/27/c-events-and-delegates-explained-to-unix-cjava-people/ http://klimb.com/blog/2007/02/27/c-events-and-delegates-explained-to-unix-cjava-people/#comments Tue, 27 Feb 2007 21:52:38 +0000 Dmitry http://klimb.com/blog/2007/02/27/c-events-and-delegates-explained-to-unix-cjava-people/ In this tutorial I’ll explain events and delegates the easy way! The intended audience is UNIX people with minimal C and Java experience. Sending events is super simple in .NET framework. The C# language has “delegate” and “event” keywords.

Delegates are kind of like a C function pointer, and they’re even more like C++/STL functors. Except for the following distinctions:

  1. They’re safe
  2. They also have a multicasting feature. Unlike a C function pointer, you can subscribe multiple callbacks to the delegate. Whenever you invoke a delegate, in return it will call all subscribed methods. More on this later.

So, the whole GUI system in Java or Windows Form is all based on events. It’s also called the “observer” pattern. So, it’s important to get events/delegates mechanism down. In this very simple example we’ll have a Broadcaster and a TV. The broadcaster “fires” and event and everyone that is subscribed to it will get it.

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]]> http://klimb.com/blog/2007/02/27/c-events-and-delegates-explained-to-unix-cjava-people/feed/ Seattle Impressions http://klimb.com/blog/2007/02/23/seattle-impressions/ http://klimb.com/blog/2007/02/23/seattle-impressions/#comments Fri, 23 Feb 2007 23:55:44 +0000 Dmitry http://klimb.com/blog/2007/02/23/seattle-impressions/ img_0316.JPGI’ve been in Seattle for about a week now. I love it. Should have done it a long time ago! Its going to be hard to live anywhere else now, especially in a small town. I really like the city life, all the people, constant motion, traffic … everything. I work at Microsoft and my job is really fun. (more…)

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