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January 2006 - Posts

Tuesday, January 31, 2006 12:28 AM

Collaborative development, pair programming, etc.

There have been some interesting discussion on our internal "agile" alias around pair programming, with some advocates and some skeptics. I wrote something in response to one of the skeptical posters, who (to paraphrase badly and perhaps miss his point)
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Monday, January 30, 2006 9:39 AM

Regex 101 Exercise I6 - Remove font directives from HTML

Regex 101 Exercise I6 - Remove font directives from HTML Remove all <font…> or </font> directives from an HTML string.
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Friday, January 27, 2006 3:03 PM

Devo 2.0

I came across a site for a group doing covers of Devo songs. That by itself only rate a 5 or so on the weirdness scale. The weird thing is that a) It's a kids group, of undisclosed age, though they look like 12 year olds to me. and 2) It's backed by Walt
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Friday, January 27, 2006 2:46 PM

Regex 101 Discussion I5 - Remove unapproved HTML tags from a string

When accepting HTML input from a user, allow the following tags: <b> </b> <a href=…> </a> <i> </i> <u> </u> and remove any others. ****** My first comment is that you should be very careful when you do this
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Thursday, January 26, 2006 8:09 AM

Scrubs

I don't usually write about popular culture, partly because it's a bit off-topic (yes, I know, I'm not exactly known for staying on topic in a single post , much less for producing a coherent blog experience, though I did read yesterday that it's easier
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Tuesday, January 24, 2006 3:07 PM

Batch modification in ASP.NET

I have a page on my website where I have a list of climbs with a checkbox next to each one. I'd like to allow my user to check/uncheck each line and then click "update" to make all the changes at once. Is there a way I can easily do this with GridView
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Tuesday, January 24, 2006 2:18 PM

Feline Cranial Protection

Protect your cat !
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Monday, January 23, 2006 10:11 AM

Video for my wife to watch...

And for other wives, girlfriends or other spousal equivalents. Make You Happy Tonight
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Monday, January 23, 2006 8:32 AM

Regex 101 Exercise I5 - Remove unapproved HTML tags from a string

Regex 101 Exercise I5 - Remove unapproved HTML tags from a string When accepting HTML input from a user, allow the following tags: <b> </b> <a href=…> </a> <i> </i> <u> </u> and remove any others.
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Monday, January 23, 2006 8:28 AM

Regex 101 Discussion I4 - remove unprintable characters from a string

Exercise I4 - remove unprintable characters from a string Given an input string, remove all characters that are not printable. -------------- Assuming ASCII - or something like ASCII - non-printing characters have ascii values of 31 or lower. You can
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Sunday, January 22, 2006 9:08 PM

Four words

Four words I never thought I would use together... Seattle Seahawks Super Bowl. We Tivod the game since we were up skiing, and just finished watching it. Where did that Seahawk defense come from? [Update: I thought this morning that there might be a fifth
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Friday, January 20, 2006 2:23 PM

Endless Forms Most Beautiful: The New Science of Evo Devo and the Making of the Animal Kingdom

I picked up this book a few weeks ago when I was at the 'brar. I've read a lot of stuff on evolution over the years. I think Dawkins has the position that I most agree with, but his writing is really hard to get through. I've been working on " The Ancestor's
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Thursday, January 19, 2006 8:59 PM

Windows DVD Maker - Hub Page

After you have selected the content that you want to burn onto your DVD, you go to the hub page. It looks like this: Dominating this page is the DVD menu preview - a static preview of the menu that you will see when you first play the DVD. On the right
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Thursday, January 19, 2006 1:56 PM

Windows DVD Maker - Add pictures and video page.

I pulled a couple of screenshots off of the current build, so I could talk a bit about how DVD Maker works. The first page that you go to is the "Add pictures and video to the DVD" page, which looks like this: On this page, you add the content that you
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Wednesday, January 18, 2006 9:18 PM

Spousal Injury Loans

About a year ago, in the fall of 2004, I needed to clean out the gutters on the back of my house. So, I got out my 28' heavy-duty aluminum ladder, and put it up against the roof and climbed up. I'm not particularly freaked out by high places, but extension
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Tuesday, January 17, 2006 8:25 AM

Why didn't I think of that?

One of the challenges of writing a blog is keeping the writing fresh and interesting. Granting, for the sake of argument, that the writing has ever been fresh and interesting. Coming up with good ideas is hard, and I'm really disappointed I didn't think
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Monday, January 16, 2006 9:51 PM

Regex 101 Exercise I4 - remove unprintable characters from a string

Exercise I4 - remove unprintable characters from a string Given an input string, remove all characters that are not printable.
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Monday, January 16, 2006 9:36 PM

Regex 101 Answer I3 - Expand ranges in a string

Sorry about the lateness of this one. I had a meeting on Friday afternoon, and then had some things to take care of today. So anyway... I3 - Expand ranges in a string Given a string like: 1,2,4,6-9,12,15-17,20 expand the ranges, so the final string is:
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Wednesday, January 11, 2006 2:18 PM

Brainiac on G4TV

I haven't been a big fan of G4TV since the TechTV marriage - not that I've watched them much. But last week I came across the Brainiac Thermite Segment , and a quick search showed me that G4 is showing episodes of Brainiac. I set the TiVo to pick up episodes,
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Monday, January 09, 2006 9:01 AM

Windows DVD Maker FAQ

If you have a question, please add it as a comment, and I'll add it to this post. Questions about Windows DVD Maker 1 : I hope you support HT and Dual Core processors A: The short answer is that we are multithreaded and support dual proc. I don't know
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Monday, January 09, 2006 8:58 AM

Regex 101 Exercise I3 - Expand ranges in a string

I3 - Expand ranges in a string Given a string like: 1,2,4,6-9,12,15-17,20 expand the ranges, so the final string is: 1,2,4,6,7,8,9,12,15,16,17,20
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Friday, January 06, 2006 1:58 PM

Fun with gift wrapping

My wife and daughter have learned to expect strange things when the unwrap their holiday presents. Clothes will never be in the boxes with the store from which they came, and they may not even be in a box at all. One of my wife's presents was in a rather
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Wednesday, January 04, 2006 7:45 PM

Review my book - Winners

After a painstaking analysis of the reasons why people wanted to review my book (well, Mark and my book...), I have selected 5 winners. To be objective, I came up with the following ranking factors: Breadth of knowledge Years of experience Number of languages
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Tuesday, January 03, 2006 4:15 PM

Introducing Windows DVD Maker

For the past 9 months, I've been working on a product for making DVDs. In Vista, this product (feature? applet? wizard? well, pick one...) will allow you to create a nice DVD containing your pictures and video - a DVD that you can watch at home, send
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Tuesday, January 03, 2006 4:14 PM

Stop inlining...

If you want to prevent a method from being inlined, add: [MethodImplAttribute(MethodImplOptions.NoInlining)]
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Tuesday, January 03, 2006 2:17 PM

What a cool idea?

If the electrical power in your area is prone to outages and you own a Prius, what do you do? You set it up so you can power your house from the Prius when the power goes out.
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