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Running The Regulator on .Net 1.0
Up until now, The Regulator could only run on .Net 1.1. Now you can run it against .Net 1.0 using this config file: http://royo.is-a-geek.com/regulator.exe.zip just put it in along with the regulator.exe file and run. I…
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The amazing CLR runtime re-appearing trick
[ Update : Joseph cooney alerted me to the fact that this is probably cause by Windows File Protection , and he was totally right. Coolness! Here's a very good article about this subject.] Here's a CLR party trick for…
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Good DPAPI helper and Matt Griffith's awesome .NET Utilities DLL and more
Wow. Carl Franklin Finally posts about something other than .Net rocks , and starts with a bang. He extracted the DPAPI(Data protection API - for encryption) helper class that was given ant MS DevDays 2004 as part of…
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Real Geeks
I love how Matt Warren describes the hunger for code. I feel it too. But I could never write it out as good as he just did . Still, Here;s a very cool comment on that post that I had to post: Denise Reis Oh yes, I knew…
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A New Paradigm: "Continuations"?
I wonder just how much anyone has heard about this idea: Continuation based web applications (link via Cincom ) As I understand it, continuations allow your web application to jump forward between states after each…
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Important Developer Implications: Windows XP Service Pack 2
One important issue for developers is how the windows XP service pack 2 affects software we write today. You'd be surprised but there are some “breaking” changes inside it, stuff we should be aware of. Today this turned…
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DevDays grab-bag should be improved
Ok. I've written about this before, but there is no reasonable explanation as to why other people who go to DevDays are getting some very cool stuff, especially a DVD with lots of goodies and all the lectures , and we…
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Comments in Regular Expressions
Continuing my talk about Regex, it's good to be able to point to Darren , who is making a good point about commenting regular expressions, did you know you can do that? Read: Commenting Regular Expressions with C# and…
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RegexLib's web service pays off big time.
The Regulator ’s Web-Search pane finally became useful for me today. I was helping someone out with some tricky parsing code and we had no idea how to do something (parse an SQL query). A quick search for “SQL” inside…
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CodeRush vs. CodeSmart
CodeRush looks cool, but I still like CodeSmart better. The people at the user group liked it very much as well when I demonstrated it : )
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Unit testing and test driven resources
Someone asked me about resources for learning to do test driven development and unit testing. Darrell Norton has collected a nice set of resources on his blog . This is a great place to start. I was thinking of…
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Me? rip to shreds?
Carl thinks I'm going to rip him to shreds for telling people to inherit a Customer object from a Person object :) ok, the link didn't stick for some reason. Let's try again!…
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My talk went very well. You missed out :)
Wow. I'm all energized about the talk I just finished at the Visual C# user group. The talk was divided in two: First part was regular expressions. It went great! I was so nervious at first, but when I actually stepped…
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See me speak at IVCUG about Regex and .Net Plug-ins
I'll be speaking at the Visual C# user group this Wednesday (that's tomorrow while I'm writing this) about regex and plug ins.
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Some links I need to remember
Some stuff that should not be missed: Fiddler is a HTTP Debugging Proxy which logs all HTTP traffic between your computer and the Internet (via Scott ) Port Reporter a logging service for Windows that logs TCP/IP port…
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[Book] Coder To Developer
I got the chance to review some of the chapters from Mike Gunderloy 's upcoming book , about to hit the stores anytime now: Coder To Developer . It looks to be a great book for those of us who want to take the leap from…
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Why is RSS adoption so low? Here's why.
Why is RSS adoption so low , asks Scoble ? and the answer lies, of course, in the obvious. It's still too hard to start with it. And yes, I mean even the geeks I hang out with. Hell, even I find it less than tolerable…
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When you're new...
Rory talks about starting out when nobody knows you (or it's the other way around) at a new place. I know his feelings. Doing 2 months in Norway was much like that... only imagine that everyone at the party is as quiet…
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IrfanVIew - simpler, faster, and FREE
Scoble recommends ACDsee to view your digital pictures, and I partially agree. I used it for a long time, but then.. somehow, it got big, and clumsy and heavy and bloated. Guess what? I use IrfanView now. It's free, and…
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1001 posts
Huh. Didn't even notice, but my last post was my 1000 post! Who knew? Thanks for the tip, Udi .
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Crypto for everyone
Although I've used the Crypto classes a bit before, it was a bit of a steep learning curve for me. This nice and simple article (+code!) seems to be just what I was looking for at that time: Crypto for everyone (via…
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Tool: IPCheck - Monitor your web server online status
Q : I need a (hopefully)free way to monitor a web farm and know if one of the servers goes offline. A: IPCheck Server Monitor allows you to monitor your server(s) and be notified via email when they are down. The free…
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Calling managed functions from unmanaged code
Our company has an internal mailing list of important and interesting things. Sometimes I'll grab some technical gems from there and post them for everyone's benefit. For example: Q :“ I have a static method in managed…
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Mortal Sin: Translating technical terms
We've all seen this (if you work in a country where English is not your mother tongue). A new person joins your team, and starts talking to you about really deep, thought provoking, mind numbing technical stuff. The…
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Logging block: RTFM
Reminder to self: RTFM! We tried installing the logging application block today, it took a while for me to figure out why it would not build. It kept throwing errors such as “Could not find namespace…
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Developers.org.il - The Israeli developers site
This site looks like it's off to a good start . It's one of those “How come there wasn't one earlier” kind of sites. A few pointers: The forums look like they could be something really good. All articles are in Hebrew.…
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Book of the month
My book of the month: Writing Secure Code, Second Edition After reading almost half of it I can safely say this book is a must for every developer. Getting into that security "state of mind", or even just awareness , is…
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Interesting stuff I missed this week
I need to remind myself : I need to check out the outlook search plugin P/Invoke Interop Headers for C# - Every tried to write a P/Invoke signature by hand? It can be challenging for some parts of the Win32 API.…
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MSDN Connected in Israel? hopefully.
Hmm. this MSDN Connection program sounds good. I hear it might be coming to Israel real soon. Though I have to say, if someone does reach the “dedicated member” status, most of the things you get there, you probably…