November 2006 - Posts
I came across a good blog entry with a list of commonly used regular expressions . Through it would be useful to reference.
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I just found this article about a little hidden application in Windows XP that allows you to create a custom font library .
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I really started working with some heavy regular expression manipulations about a month or so ago. I found this really good bood by Nathan A Good, Regular Expression Recipes for Windows Developers , where he presents some pretty useful and common regular
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I remember when I was in college and I found a book called 'Windows Exposed' or something implying that there was a lot of hidden gems in Windows to program against that just were not documented. That trend continues through .NET 2.0 (now 3.0
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I honestly have not done anyting with XAML yet, hopefully by the end of the year. Flash has been around for several years to this point. I am not a huge fan of using it for a business web site, but have had to endure the pain of it for a few clients.
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If you have heard one of my URL Rewriting presenations I talk some about Search Engine Optimization and Pay Per Click Marketing for ASP.NET developers. MSN Adcenter is Microsoft's PPC advertising program. It costs $5 to get started. I just found a
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I came across some references to the release of the ASP.NET Cross Site Scripting toolkit 1.5 last night. I just downloaded and will investigate it over the next few days. Cross site scripting is a fairly common method hackers are using to attack web sites
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What a day! I have to tell you when I decided to speak at the NJ Code Camp I was not expecting to have 15 solid hours of great .NET learning and fellowship. I made a lot of new friends and learned some valuable things about .NET technologies, how they
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Looks like Vista is now available for MSDN Download . I have to admit I am a little excited about this. If I were not taking off ina few hours for NJ, I would work on this for the weekend. But I think I will see about downloading it while I am gone and
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At the Richmond Code Camp I went over some of my tips and tricks to get ASP.NET to perform as fast as possible. One of the biggest things you have to do is reduce the size of your ViewState and also move it to the bottom of the page . It was brought to
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I got the actual schedule for the Code Camp this weekend in New Jersey . I will be giving my ASP.NET Performance presenation at 1:15, right after lunch and the URL Rewriting presentation at 4:45. The organizers are planning for a light turn out, which
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I will be speaking at the New Jersey Code Camp this coming weekend, Nov 18th. I will be giving two presentations, ASP.NET performance tips and tricks and URL Rewriting . If you saw my performance presenation in Richmond, this will be an updated version
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That was fast, I think I remember just the other day announcing Beta 1 was available. Well Now ASP.NET AJAX Beta 2 is available for your developing pleasure. Beta 2 includes several improvements over the first Beta release, including adding the UpdateProgress
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The Mix 07 dates have offcially been announced, April 30-May 2 in Las Vegas. I really wanted to go to Mix 06, but the gods were not smiling on me for that. I am going to try my best to get to this one. Registration will open up on January so stay tuned
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Just found this little resource where you can get Visual Studio 2005 Hot Fixes . Use at your own caution, these have not been totally tested by the Microsoft guys, but hey they have disclaimers on the page for you to read.
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Generics are a great new feature of .NET 2.0 that still has some enough mystery that not many are actually leveraging this great new set of collection classes. Real quick, Generics are a templated set of collection classes that are a little thinner than
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I was just checking out the Movers and Shakers at Alexa and noticed the #1 Mover was a new Development Site . I checked out the use graph and it is off the chart , which makes me wonder how it do so much attention in the past two days. I will have to
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Regular Expressions are not a very easy skill for any developer to master, that is why so few actually leverage this amazing feature of the .NET framework. I have been working on a little application this week that needed to extract a specific peice of
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An Advanced technique I like to do in a User Control (.ascx file) is reference the parent page to get properties. Some common examples might be setting the page title, meta tags or other 'expected' controls on the page based on the data or status
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When you are developing internal applications you often need to access company infromation, such as employee details. There are two common places to search for this information, LDAP (Active Directory) or the Global Account List (GAL). This will be a
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