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Strong Vs. Loose Typing/Loose binding
Ted Neward writes about the differences between Loose-Coupling, Loose-Typing, and Loose-Binding. Well, that's just the beginning. He starts off a discussion about which might be better for which tasks, the coding of GUI…
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Work, work, work....
Sorry I've been out for a few days, but work duties call, and I must finish a small project. Nevertheless, I'm working on an article concerning building applications that support custom plugins. Of course, you'll be the…
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Random Thought
"If the people in the matrix live in the future, and they have all this technology to plug in to the matrix, why do they still have to plug in those cables into the back of their heads? don't they have wireless…
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The Right People For The Right Job
I recently met with a friend of mine, also a programmer. After sharing the usual “war stories” he mentioned some things about his project manager/Team Leader that made us both go into a long conversation about IT roles…
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VB6 is not dead, so you'll need this tool
My guess is there is going to be a LOT of VB6'ers around for a long time. I know I'll be doing maintenance on my old VB6 programs for as long as needed. In case you’re in this category, I recommend using CodeSmart 2001…
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CodeSmith goes out to the wild
This is great news! Codesmith is one of the coolest and most time saving tools around.
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The Books I Really Really Want
<Alert>Yes, I am an Amazon affiliate</Alert> How Would You Move Mount Fuji? Microsoft's Cult of the Puzzle - How the World's Smartest Company Selects the Most Creative Thinkers .NET Security Essential .NET, Volume I:…
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Assorted News
Comparison Tool : Beyond Compare is the comparison tool I've used. Araxis Merge 2001 is light years behind in functionality (Although has better UI) Matrix Invitations : If you still haven’t gotten those Matrix…
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UI Threading - A Very Simple Solution
God loves the simple solutions. It turns out that there is a really simple solution to the problem of working with UI threads.Much simpler then mine . I was given this simple pattern by a guy on the win_tech_off_topic…
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I Was Naked
SharpReader rocks! I was running naked for a while(i.e. - No RSS reader - just a browser) and putting my rss-reader back on feels nice and fuzzy.
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Articles, Articles, Articles!
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The Star Wars - Kid Gets An Upgrade
Guilty about laughing at a geeky teenager whose private video has been downloaded millions of times off the Net, a pair of webloggers is raising money for the young man they call the 'Star Wars Kid.' By Leander Kahney.…
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About Productivity
Although I've been working for quite some time now as a developer, with several companies and developer teams, I am still amazed at how un-productive some developers can be. As a developer, I always feel I need to know…
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Editor's Choice Awards
OK, I give up. UltraEdit is the best Text editor I've used. The only thing missing from it (that exists in most other editors) is the ability to press ALT and then select text using Block mode. No.You have to enter…
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When Blogs Go Commercial
Hmm.. Reading through Chris Pirillo's Brain-Trust initiative I must say - This is a pretty smart idea! However, one thing I don't understand: Here's one of the testimonials from that page: "Just wanted to let you know…
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FeedDemon
FeedDemon looks like a dream RSS reader. It's from the same guy who created HomeSite and TopStyle Pro, so it should be a real treat! The screenshots are mouth watering... (Thanks to Pirillo for the link)
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UI Threading Helper Classes
Following up on my post about how UI threading sucks , and Julie's post about the subject (Julie or Julia? which is it?), I've decided to create some helper classes for working with UI threads. Meet UIThreadHandler and…
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UI Threading Helper Classes
UI Threading Helper Classes ( Download the code ) One of the most cumbersome things you will ever have to do with Winforms is updating your User interface while receiving events from another thread. For example, you…
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Blog style change
OK. I've changed the CSS style of the blog. Although I liked the layout of the old one, I had a real problem with its lack of seperation between different posts. The current style has HR's between them, so everything…
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Please don't spoil it for us
Guys. Please don't post any spoilers about the new Matrix. It just ruins it for the rest of us who get to see it only on the 22'nd :( Once you post these things, I just can't help but reading them... c'mon. There's…
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Shortcuts: Object Search and Toolbox Magic
Some more shortcuts I've learned: ALT+F12 - Open the "Object Search" window CTRL-ALT-X - Open the Toolbox window CTRL-Up/Down - With the toolbox window open, Navigate between the different Toolbox panes (Useful for…
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System.Text.Encoding.Tip
I learned this the hard way, so you don't have to. This applies to anyone who is going to be using System.IO to read ANSI files that combine Hebrew And English mixed inside. Now, when I attempted to do this, I used the…
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About Design
Alan Cooper says (Among others) that good GUI design is not necessarily referring to software. A good design shows in usability and practicality. For example, Here's an alarm clock similar to the alarm clock we have…
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A Long Day!
Arrgh! It's been a hell of a long day! Imagine going 7:45 - 20:15 head to head with something that you thought you could do in an hour! I'll post heavily on it later (And a rant about .Net as well) but for now I'll just…
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Expression Boy
Following the footsteps of DataGrid Girl, should I call myself " Regex Roy "..? ;) P.S Speaking of Trillian, here's my ICQ - 1782510 (If I seem offline, tell me. I've been having some problems with this lately..)
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Strip HTML tags from a string using regular expressions
Paschal asked me to find a simple solution for stripping HTML tags from a given string using Regular expressions. The solution is quite simple: 1. Retrieve all the HTML tags using this pattern: <(.|\n)*?> 2. Replace…