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October 2005 - Posts

Flow, and Cycling

Tonight I read a post by Eldon, where (among other things) he says that he has learned how to lose himself in his ride. I've experienced that a number of times - I'm just riding, still paying attention to what's going on, but not thinking about anything.
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Regex 101 Exercise S2 - Verify a string is a hex number

Welcome to week #2 of our class. This is a simple one: S2 - Verify a string is a hex number Given a string, verify that it contains only the digits 0-9 and the letters a through f (either in uppercase or lowercase). Answer/discussion on Friday...
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Regex 101 Exercise S1 - Discussion

Welcome to Regex 101 discussion section 3. My goals for these discussions are twofold. First, I'd like to give a reasonable answer (or set of answers, more likely) to the exercise. Second, I'd like to impart some understanding of how the regex works,
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The rewards of studying science prove tasty...

From the Improbable Research blog , a link to a site using paper plates in education . Here's my favorite
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PDC Sessions online...

PDC Sessions are now online . You can watch online or download the video/powerpoint/other materials, though I've had problems doing the download thing...
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A plea to development tool designers...

Systems hang. Especially systems with alpha or beta-quality operating systems on them. Sometimes dev tools hang, and the only way to get things back is to do a hard reset. So why do some tools put off saving their Tools->options settings until you
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Shower Debugging...

I have a book on my shelf titled "Software Exorcism", which is all about debugging and optimization. It's a good book, but it doesn't have any reference to the (I suspect) widely-used-but-rarely-discussed technique of "shower debugging". Shower debugging
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Regular Expression Exercise S1

The first in a series of exercises designed to teach you more about regular expressions, written by a guy who got partway through writing a regex book. But first, a word about tools. It's a lot easier to use a tool to do this sort of thing than it is
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The book that never was

After I finished my C# book, I looked around for something else to write about. After some thinking, I decided to write a regular expression book that was focused explicitly on the .NET version of regular expressions. Mastering Regular Expressions is
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Insert Smiley

:) I haven't been paying too much attention to my blog formatting options recently. I'm pretty much a straightforward text guy. Back when I started coding, all we had was uppercase letters. Struth! Anyway, I'm not big on lots of extra formatting - I'll
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Come work in the Movie Maker Team...

The Movie Maker team is hiring. I haven't written much about the Movie Maker team, but it's a great place to work. Challenging and interesting problems. Making the complex easy (easier?). Pushing the PC architecture to its limits. Drinking lots of free
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So you think you're logical?

So you think you're logical?
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Bitmap::FromStream() issues

I've been writing some code the last day or so to pull a PNG bitmap out of a resource file and put it into a GDI+ bitmap. You would like to use: Bitmap::FromResource() but unfortunately, that only works for BITMAP resources. I found some code internally
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A new version of C# beyond Linq there will be...

Matt provides some insight ...
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Help needed: ASP.NET 2.0 and Google Maps...

[Update: I got this to work by turn on IIS, installing ASP.NET on it, and then using a google map key registered for http://localhost . I had tried this with Cassini (the development web server that comes with ASP.NET 2.0) with keys registered to both
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Why doesn't Eric respond to my comment?

Eric doesn't respond to comments because: He prefers pontification to conversation Time spent on comments is better spent learning how to cat juggle They bummer my buzz, man Some other reason All of these are true to some degree. The author does admit
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ReadDirectoryChangesW is evil

I have some code that uses ReadDirectoryChangesW() to monitor when files are modified, renamed, or deleted. I've gotten a few bugs from our testers saying that the right thing isn't happening, but I've been unable to repro them. Today, I finally got a
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