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Tuesday, February 28, 2006 2:23 PM

Windows DVD Maker - Slide Show Page

To keep things simple, DVD Maker puts all still images in a single slideshow. This page is used to set the options for that slideshow. The top part of this page is used to set the background music for the slide show. You can add, re-order, or remove items
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Tuesday, February 28, 2006 8:51 AM

Regex 101 Exercise I9 - Count the number of matches

Regex 101 Exercise I9 - Count the number of matches Given a string like: # # 4 6 # # 7 # 45 # 43 # 65 56 2 # 4345 # # 23 Count how many numbers there are in this string
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Tuesday, February 28, 2006 8:47 AM

Regex 101 Discussion I8 - replace space count with spaces

Exercise I8 - replace space count with spaces Given a string with embedded space counts: <15sp>Indented by 15 spaces Replace the <<count>sp> with <count> spaces. So, if you have <4sp>Text you should end up with Text *******
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Monday, February 27, 2006 7:25 PM

Coolest thing, parent edition..

Last Friday, we went to the movies to see the remake of the Pink Panther. It was okay, but it's pretty hard to keep up with the original. The cool part was that my 11-year-old daughter paid for dinner and the movie for the three of us.
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Monday, February 27, 2006 10:08 AM

Top Gear Window Olympics 2006

What a great video. Top Gear Window Olympics 2006
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Sunday, February 26, 2006 7:55 PM

Would you like sauce with your ribs?

On February 20th, 2005, I hit a big rock in the middle of a ski slope at Stevens Pass, popped both skis, slammed my chest into the ground, and cracked a rib. This February 20th, I skied off a groomer ledge in a white-out, caught an edge, popped my right
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Sunday, February 26, 2006 7:31 PM

Big White-Out

Last week, we spent a few days up north skiing at Big White , eh ? So, I thought I'd write a few random comments: Kelowna is a long way from Seattle. Count on at least 6 hours to get to Kelowna, plus another hour or so to get to Big White. About the same
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Thursday, February 23, 2006 9:23 PM

Over-updating...

Raymond writes an interesting post about how some programs run faster if you hold down the mouse. This is a classic situation to get yourself into - I've probably seen it 5 times, and hit it again recently. When we're burning a DVD, the burn engine calls
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Wednesday, February 15, 2006 12:18 PM

How many of these did you use?

There's a big auction on ebay of vintage PC equipment. Look through the pictures, I think I used about 12 of them. How many have you used?
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Wednesday, February 15, 2006 8:54 AM

Exception handling guidelines...

This morning, I was reading a post on the GDN C# Language board about exception handling, and a reply got away from me, so I thought I'd put it here instead. I was going to link to the post, but I think that might be unfair to the poster, so I'll skip
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Tuesday, February 14, 2006 8:13 PM

Random Acts of Giftitude

I was reading Bob's Top 5 post on Valentine's Day , where he gives the typical male perspective on Valentine's day. Before I go on, I'll let the 2% of you who don't know the male perspective on Valentine's day spend some time reading his response. I share
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Monday, February 13, 2006 8:23 PM

TrainRight Fitness Testing

TrainRight Fitness Testing After doing a bit of research, I decided to sign up for coaching at TrainRight.com in January. And since then, I've been following their training advice faithfully, in the sense that I have a lot of faith that I will see big
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Monday, February 13, 2006 10:23 AM

Regex 101 Exercise I8 - replace space count with spaces

Exercise I8 - replace space count with spaces Given a string with embedded space counts: <15sp>Indented by 15 spaces Replace the <<count>sp> with <count> spaces. So, if you have <4sp>Text you should end up with Text
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Friday, February 10, 2006 10:31 AM

DVD Maker - Customize Disc Menu Style page

Welcome to the Customize Disc Menu Style page. This page is used to customize the style of the DVD menu. Like the menu text page, this page has two previews on the right side. The top one is the main DVD menu preview that you've seen before. The bottom
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Friday, February 10, 2006 9:53 AM

Regex 101 Discussion I7 - Make sure all characters inside <> are uppercase

Regex 101 Exercise I7 - Make sure all characters inside <> are uppercase First, as Sheva pointed out, making them all *lowercase* would make a lot more sense, but you have probably noticed that the correlation between these exercises and making
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Monday, February 06, 2006 9:32 PM

Exercise your wit

If you fancy yourself as funny, please help me out.. at Explanations ...
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Monday, February 06, 2006 9:52 AM

Super bowl officials...

I'd like an unbiased opinion on this one. And I'm only going to make one post on this, so bear with me. I think the Steelers played a pretty good game - and managed to do some nice things - converting both long runs and a nice trick play for touchdowns.
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Monday, February 06, 2006 9:29 AM

Regex 101 Exercise I7 - Make sure all characters inside <> are uppercase

Regex 101 Exercise I7 - Make sure all characters inside <> are uppercase
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Friday, February 03, 2006 11:03 AM

DVD Maker Tour - The disc menu text page

The disc menu text page is one of the customization pages that you access using the toolbar buttons on the " Ready to burn disc " page (what we call the "hub page" internally). The right side of this page has two previews. The top preview is the main
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Friday, February 03, 2006 9:32 AM

Regex 101 Discussion 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. ***** I've decided to start linking my answers back to the original posts, since the answers given there are often as good
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Friday, February 03, 2006 8:54 AM

Resistance to pairing

Paul wrote an informative response to my post on collaboration. I've just been writing some stuff about where I think our group should go in the future, and I've decided to downplay pair programming. Not because I think it's a bad idea, but more because
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Wednesday, February 01, 2006 3:14 PM

Life and Times of Anders Hejlsberg

Newly released on Channel 9: Life and Times of Anders Hejlsberg This isn't a technical talk - it's more a talk about what Anders has done, but it includes some good stuff about design philosophy and the history of C#. Not only has Anders done some great
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