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Got Proxy? Help me test The Regulator
One of the requests for The Regulator was that the web search will be able to use Proxy settings. While I've added the feature, I have no way to test it. So.. if you're not in the PDC and are behind a proxy and would…
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New skin and new book recommendation
Just thought I'd see how my blog looks with a different skin. I like it. I'll keep it. Also thought it's about time I update my favorite/most wanted book recommendation. So, I put the new link up on the blog. This time…
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Winforms menu shortcuts not working sometimes? Use ProcessDialogKey()
One of the one of the usability standards I always try to live up to in my win forms apps is letting the user choose how to perform any specific action, Mouse or keyboard. What I mean is that for every action that the…
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Nice GC tip
Doug Reilly posts about the big difference that happens in the GC between debug and release modes. I did not know that! Good one.
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Peter and Douglas do it right (PDC Blogging the way I like it) and the list grows
Somehow, of all the “PDC Bloggers” out there in the wild, I heard almost nothing but fires, planes, wireless connections and “This is how I look” posts... except for Peter and Douglas (I'm talking only about PDC content…
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Calling webservices asynchronously - 2 possible ways
Calling a web service inside your win forms application is almost trivial. Making the user happy while you do it, is just a little less trivial, but very doable. Say I have this webservice call (and suppose I have an…
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Leaving for PDC post hailstorm
Looks like we're in the midst of a “Leaving for PDC” posts hailstorm. I suspect this will get worse as time goes by, as we'll start getting a “Just saw X, and it's cool”, and “Meet me by building 101B at 12:00” posts.…
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.NET development - Extra tools?
Arthur Warren asked a simple question on the win_tech_off_topic mailing list: “ While I'm annoying people with questions / polls, I'd be curious to know what extra tools people tend to use. We're not fully buying into…
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And a few lessons from JBuilder
A few more features besides these come to mind when I think of other IDE’s I’ve used in the past that gave me the “ooh” factor. One of the more prominent ones is JBuilder 7.0 (That’s the version I played with). Several…
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A few lessons from IntelliJ IDEA
My wife is currently taking Java classes as part of her curriculum at the university. I've played with Java a couple of times in the past, but because I never got a real chance of “working” with it, it never really grew…
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The Regulator is BACK!
Thanks to a donation by SyncFusion , we've got ourselves a brand new, non GPL edit control, thus allowing me to re-distribute The Regulator without worries. Thanks, Syncfusion . You made my day :) This is how it looks,…
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The Regulator won't be available while I sort this GPL thing out.
Following the recent discussions about the legal status of The Regulator in terms of the GPL, I've decided to take down the public release of the program from GDN until: I can make it fully GPL compatible (i.e,…
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[Tool] Introducing The Regulator - advanced regex tool
Yeah, I've been away too long, but here's how I'm making up for it: Introducing The Regulator : An advanced regular expression tool with expert features such as: Syntax highlighting and folding Multi threaded operations…
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[Rant] Horrible two weeks
Well, I can safely say that these past 2 weeks sucked BIG time. Our only car broke down, requiring about 1,500$ worth of repairs and 3 days in the shop - leaving me no option but to cancel two important job interviews.…
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[Article] on MSDNAA: Creating a Generic Site-To-Rss Tool
My Site-To-Rss article was just published on MSDNAA : Creating a Generic Site-To-Rss Tool
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FDML? Here's a different direction
I’m not much in the way of thinking about various RSS standards, XML schemas and so on, so usually all the stuff that Sam Ruby writes about those matters gets blurred to me real fast. Maybe it’s because I’ve been so…
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Microsoft PDC 2003 Sessions RSS feed? Oh yeah!
I'm gonna be really really subscribed to this feed . Hopefully, they'll have the sense to put in ppt links inside the posts as well.
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Cool trick of the day - VSS keyword expansion
Well, I certainly didn't know about this cool VSS feature! turn this: '$History: Form1.vb $ ' into this: '***************** Version 24 ***************** 'User: Guest Date: 10/13/03 Time: 12:49p 'Updated in…
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Better times ahead?
One of the first feeds that I generated using Feedable, was Ali's Blog(Tech Guru). . He's a math student in Tehran. We never really got to talk until I made that RSS feed for him yet Somehow we got to chatting on MSN.…
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More Feedable updates
Yeah I know. It's starting to look like the Feedable blog here, but I promise i'll stop soon. This site has been a great learning experience for me. I couldn't have asked for a better way to start learning web…
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RSS feed for SysInternals
If you'd have registered for the Feedable RSS feed , you would have known by now that, among others, I've added an RSS feed for SysInternals . Yep. Now we'll know in real time when new or updated tools come to life.…
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Phew.. art coming your way
For the heck of it I added some “art” to the new site , and a small banner to it on the blog. If you have an RSS feed from Feedable , It would be great if you put this small banner to the site with a link to it: Also,…
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.Net Rocks be bloggin'!
Oh cool! Carl Franklin, of . Net Rocks , just opened a blog here ! subscribed! Welcome aboard Carl :)
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New feed for Tech Guru
Ali (“Tech Guru”) , the Iranian Blogger, just got his brand new RSS feed . I'm liking this!
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Another one bites the dust (XP magazine RSS feed anyone?)
Just added another RSS feed to SiteFeeder : XP Magazine - list of articles RSS feed How cool is this?
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Introducing SiteFeeder
Now you can have an RSS feed for almost any site you want. Introducing SiteFeeder . 'nuff said.
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Describing and evaluating API usability at Microsoft
BradA (wouldn't it be cool to just write “Brabrams“?:) posts about Describing and evaluating API usability at Microsoft . It's a power point presentation that describes just what you should be thinking about when…
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Why I like SharpReader better
if there are only two things that are missing from SharpReader , they would be: an “author“ column a “Flag for later“ column That's it. Really. Today, SharpReader is , to me, much more useful that, say, NewsGator or…