http://laurens.vankeer.eu Laurens.VanKeer.eu Sat, 22 Aug 2009 18:20:00 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en PokerRanker is a Windows application I wrote several months ago. Today I finally took the time to share it on my blog. :-) This program demonstrates a collection of essential C++/CLI classes for poker (Texas Hold 'em) applications: Card, Deck, Hand and HandEvaluator. The latter, HandEvaluator, is based on the 7 ... http://laurens.vankeer.eu/poker/pokerranker Last week I went cycling in Scotland with four friends. We took the ferry from Zeebrugge to Rosyth and cycled around Scotland. We visited Edinburgh, Elgin, Dufftown, Keith, Inverness, Loch Ness, Glasgow and many small villages in between. It was fun, but tiring. :-) In other news... I've been working on ... http://laurens.vankeer.eu/general/back-from-scotland For one of my latest projects, I needed to capture certain TCP packets coming from a certain IP address and port. This is called a packet sniffer. Luckily, a complete Windows packet capture library already exists: WinPcap (based on the libpcap Unix API). This is a popular library used by many ... http://laurens.vankeer.eu/programming/simplecap While working on a project in Visual C++ (more info coming soon), I encountered some difficulties with System::Text::RegularExpressions. So I started a little side-project specifically aimed at testing this regex library. The result is this little, trivial (but useful) regular expression tester. Download links: the executable (for Windows platforms only obviously) VC++ project ... http://laurens.vankeer.eu/programming/winregex I decided to update my blog now and then with coding tips for various languages I work in. These will usually be my own solutions for problems on which I can't immediately find a clear answer on. This first tip is specifically for writing managed C++ (in Microsoft's Visual C++). Suppose you ... http://laurens.vankeer.eu/programming/coding-tip-selecting-a-row-from-a-matrix-in-managed-cpp