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Handles can represent files, ports, mutexes and other objects. By using the undocumented Native API function NTQuerySystemInformation() you can list all open handles from all processes. Here’s a small program that does that.

This is basically a ported version of “HandleList” application by someone known as Napalm on sysinternals.com forums. [...] Continue Reading…

This little tip might be usefull for people who have recently started learning PHP and have some experience in other languages (like me).

Recently I needed to write a PHP script that would process a binary file I had created in my Delphi program. However, it turned out that fread() [...] Continue Reading…

Driver development has always been the privilege of C/C++ and Assembler programmers. If someone needs to write a device driver in Delphi, he has to settle for “adapter” drivers that would allow their user-mode program some ability to interface with kernel-mode functions. There are also “wizards” that (supposedly) allow [...] Continue Reading…

Genetic algorithms are used for evolving various things – from bot behaviour in games to digital art. They can be used for solving nearly any problem/field that allows you to construct a well-defined genome and a fitness function.

Defining a genome for a website is doable, and probably quite simple, [...] Continue Reading…

To avoid any confusion, let me say that this article will talk about the taskbar buttons that represent the visible windows of currently running applications. I will not discuss the system tray or Quick Launch. Most information given here is applicable only to Windows XP and possibly newer versions [...] Continue Reading…