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August 2003 - Posts

Wednesday, August 27, 2003 9:21 PM

Quotable

That hierarchal collection of namespaces to separate things into logical places, and the IntelliSense to say, okay, now you've found the thing you want so you can stop looking. That's like crack for programmers; I just can't get enough. Chris Sell
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Wednesday, August 27, 2003 1:43 AM

Regex: Speed Kills

As an update on my attempt to find out more about balancing groups, I did manage to get a balancing group example with tags going earlier this evening. Barely. More relevantly I twiddled and twiddled until I came up with the right regex to do what had
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Monday, August 25, 2003 10:40 PM

Regex: Balancing Groups

Has anyone ever seen an example of a regex using balancing groups that isn't the O'Reilly book's lone example with parentheses balancing? Someone, somewhere must have used it once. In other related regex query news, SomeWord(?!([^<]*?)</a>)
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Monday, August 25, 2003 8:59 PM

ResourceManager: Following Up

Yes, it turns out when you load up a ResourceManager it stays in memory. Given what it's doing, it's actually wicked fast. I did some semi-scientific profiling. I wanted to compare it to rolling my own simple StringManager component. Using four culture-region
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Friday, August 22, 2003 11:53 AM

FridayOne: Blogger Wanted

In a perfect world, Anders obviously gets my vote too. Anyone else on the past or present C# design teams would be great too [1]. The return of Rob Howard, Scott Guthrie, Peter Drayton, etc., would be good enough to count. But, realistically, these
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Friday, August 22, 2003 1:41 AM

McG Strikes Again

Yes, I'm obsessed with McG's evil genius. This much is well known. So it was little surprise that I saw during the credits of The O.C. last night that McG is an Excutive Producer. It all makes sense now. The show is a addictive and guilty little pleasure
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Friday, August 22, 2003 1:30 AM

Consts, Enums and Naming

A couple of items related to constants, enums and naming. 1. What is the official style guidance on naming consts? From the MS docs it looks like they're to be named like any other member. Of course, you see a lot of code with OLDER_SCHOOL_CONVENTIONS.
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Friday, August 22, 2003 12:58 AM

Keith Pleas on Globalization/L10N

Courtesy of INETA, Keith Pleas came and gave a talk on globalization/localization at the NYC user's group last night. Learned a couple of useful things (ildasm's /adv command-line switch enables a few more menu items--although make mine Reflector, thanks
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Friday, August 22, 2003 12:14 AM

Rhapsody

I saw Marc Canter or someone discussing various online music distribution models and dissing Rhapsody the other day. It reminded me, someone should say something positive about Rhapsody now and again. I guess I'm that someone today. I've dabbled with
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Tuesday, August 19, 2003 7:08 PM

Office 2003 RTM + Pricing

In a word: ouch. Office Pro 11 Upgrade will run $329 retail, not that much of a suprise I suppose. If it wasn't for Outlook, I'd say it's not worth it. And it's tough to say so even with Outlooks quantum improvements. OneNote listing at $199!?! (Although
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Tuesday, August 19, 2003 7:05 PM

SuperSite: Aero Screenshots

Paul Thurrott, the most dangerous pundit in the land, got his mitss on new Aero screenshots that start to give you an idea of what the Longhorn UI really entails. In the words of Andre 3000: so fresh, so clean.
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Friday, August 15, 2003 12:36 PM

Random Quote

 "You think you know when you learn, are more sure when you can write, even more when you can teach, but certain when you can program." Some other bon mots.
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Friday, August 15, 2003 8:22 AM

Coroutines in Whidbey?

So what is Scoble censoring here? Interesting. All the yields at the top lead my guess towards coroutines, but who knows [1]. Hopefully it's something cool that we don't already know about (like generics or partial types, etc.). The very idea that
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Friday, August 15, 2003 6:23 AM

Thomas Alva, This One's For You

If we're voting, make mine electric. I don't really care what we're voting about. Chairs are pretty much the only thing I'm going to come up wrong with on this one, so have at it. Not sure when the power came back up, but I'm sitting here in the dark
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Wednesday, August 06, 2003 8:57 AM

C#Builder Trials Available

Not sure when I'll get to checking it out, but I most certainly will at some point. Borland builds strong IDEs. Which isn't to say it's a surefire bet to be better than VS.NET. But it's nice to see some competitions. Note to JetMinds: we're waiting...
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Wednesday, August 06, 2003 2:06 AM

GotDotNet Workspaces: My Silly Proposal

Preamble: The GDN workspaces have been improving. What they're trying to do is not trivial. A lot of things are out of their control. Okay that's out of the way. My question is this: why even do GDN Workspaces Source Control as a ground-up effort. Why
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Tuesday, August 05, 2003 6:50 PM

C# SHA1 String Hashing

Sam's C# version could be marginally abbreviated (and much less legible). Which is virtually useless, although I would hope no one is writing one-time string hashing routines. I'm sure it could probably be compressed further, but you have to give it
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Monday, August 04, 2003 1:52 PM

CNET Chronicles RSS Standards Developments

The CNET article that was being mentioned a couple weeks ago is on their top banner today. Somewhat balanced, they didn't rake too much mud, I suppose. It seems that picking a name for !Pie/!Echo/!Atom has taken on as much importance as the actual standards
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Sunday, August 03, 2003 10:52 PM

Skinning in ASP.NET

I've been working with skinned controls a lot lately. Even on this site. The roadmaps circulating for ASP.NET mention skins and themes being part of the framework. Good news, I hope the implentation is comprehensive--although I haven't yet seen what a
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Sunday, August 03, 2003 10:36 PM

Migration

And after all that, I still use w.bloggar to post. Just finished moving all my own posts over out of my own baling wire contraption and into .Text's backend. Really couldn't have been that much easier, I took what looks like a really fat RSS feed
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Friday, August 01, 2003 12:47 PM

Swimmers

Someone linked to this site, mentioning it as an Outtlook integrated aggregator. Maybe it is, but the number of DNA-related jokes swirling through my head after looking at the site effectively thwarted any attempt at actually comprehending what it was
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