Invoke UI Changes Across Threads on VB .Net

I need to do this all the time and don’t have the best memory in the world. Today, I decided that I looked this up one too many times so here’s my solution to this multithreading problem:

Multi-Threading and Delegates Tutorial in VB .NET

This guide will show you everything you need to create a non-GUI multi-threaded application in VB .NET.

There are 2 ways of using multi-threading in VB .NET. First by making use of delegates which I will explain here…

PyQt Drag Images into List Widget for Thumbnail List

This simple tutorial shows how you can create a program with Python and Qt to allow for image files from Explorer/Finder/Nautilus to be dropped in a list widget and create list items with thumbnails

.NET Compare 2 Datarows by Value Using LINQ

There are too many top Google search results giving the impression that it is impossible to compare 2 DataRows for its value contents and the programmer needs to iterate through everything himself.

Python Log Stdout to File

Python has the ability to alter its sys.stdout as to redirect its print commands to pretty much anything.

If, for instance, you want to print to both standard output and to a log file, you can create a class to handle the stdout like such:

Exclude Views in INFORMATION_SCHEMA

Another quick tip.
Selecting from INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNS unfortunately returns also every column in views on top of tables. I never use views and definitely don’t need those columns.

Guide for MSP430 Wireless Communication

Trying to get a MSP430-based development board to talk to each other but simply don’t know where to start?

TI’s resources can be a hell to sort through. With all their documents (and software!!) creatively named something along the…

Arpspoof, Tcpkill, Tcpnice Tutorial

Notes to self because I never remember

To arpspoof, turn on IP forwarding:

echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward

Qt with C++ or Python Tutorial

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This is a collection of tutorials I found useful to get into the Qt framework. Being more used to the Microsoft standard, I have…