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December 2005 - Posts

Thursday, December 29, 2005 2:57 PM

2006 goals, and bicycle coaches

I was reading Fatty, and he talked about his goals for 2006 . So, I thought that I'd talk about mine, and perhaps give him a bit of advice... I've decided on my bicycle goals this year. My big rides are going to be: STP One-day (July 15th) I've never
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Wednesday, December 28, 2005 1:51 PM

New Toys - iPod Shuffle and Roku M500

I got some new toys as presents - the ubiquitous iPod Shuffle , and a Roku M500 network music player . Well, strictly, speaking, they're not *my* toys - they belong to my daughter, but since she's unlikely to blog about them, I thought I would. The Roku
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Friday, December 23, 2005 1:43 PM

Holiday Letter 2005

Every year I write a humorous holiday letter to go along with the cards that we send out to friends and family. Well, let's be realistic. Each year I spend hours and hours writing, trying to come up with something that is at least amusing. Some years,
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Friday, December 23, 2005 11:18 AM

Want to review my new book?

I got a request from my publisher for reviewers for the third edition of my book. You would get a copy of the book, read it (that part's optional), and then write a review of it on Amazon. So, if you'd like to participate, leave a comment with the reason
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Friday, December 16, 2005 10:31 AM

Flow vs. Collaboration

I've been talking about some agile techniques with one of my co-workers, and one of his concerns about pair programming or not being in separate offices is that he won't be able to get into a state of flow in that kind of environment. My limited experience
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Friday, December 16, 2005 9:57 AM

Regex 101 Discussion I2 - Find two words in a string

I2 - Find two words in a string Find any string that has the following two words in it: “dog” and “vet” ****** This is an interesting one, since it's not something that regex is particularly suited for. The test strings that I'm using are: I took my dog
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Thursday, December 15, 2005 1:00 PM

Barbecue hazing

Today, we took a group to Dixie's barbecue , so that some of our newer members could meet "The Man". "The Man", of course, is Dixie's extremely hot barbecue sauce. While the novices were recovering and the repeat customers were figuring out how to encorporate
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Thursday, December 15, 2005 8:48 AM

Halo Zero

Halo as a sideshooter ... You can switch to english, but I find that french is a bit more fun...
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Wednesday, December 14, 2005 7:40 AM

Make it a warning!!!

My code samples of the past couple of days have led to a few requests for warnings, which reminds me of a story. So gather round old Grandpa Gunnerson. Like many such stories, this is something I've said before - probably on this very blog - but I can't
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Tuesday, December 13, 2005 11:22 AM

Checkin mail for today

From a checkin I made today: Though one might perhaps at this time expect With the holidays looming and the halls bedecked A check-in mail that is somewhat relevent Glad tidings to wish, or at least thoughts benevolent But I fear that all I can offer
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Tuesday, December 13, 2005 10:21 AM

What does this code print? - Discussion

I decided to talk about this example because somebody pointed out that the behavior was surprising, and somebody else said it would make a good blog post. I think it was Ray . There were a couple of comments in the original post that referred to other
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Monday, December 12, 2005 1:56 PM

What does this code print?

What does this code print, and why? using System; public class A { public void F(int i) { Console.WriteLine("A: {0}", i); } } public class B: A { public void F(object o) { Console.WriteLine("B: {0}", o); } } public class Test { public static void Main()
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Monday, December 12, 2005 9:47 AM

Spam filtering for outlook express

We've been blessed with a bounteous harvest of spam on our home account, and I'm now looking for a good spam filtering solution. Needs to run on outlook express. Free would be best, but if I need to pay a bit, that would be OK as well...
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Monday, December 12, 2005 9:11 AM

Regex 101 Discussion I1 - Match a floating point number

Match a floating point number. [Update: Fixed a cut/paste issue with the match for + and -. Many of the comments on the original post spoke of not having sufficient sample strings. I omitted them deliberately, so that the problem requires a bit more work
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Monday, December 12, 2005 9:08 AM

Regex 101 Exercise I2 - Find two words in a string

I2 - Find two words in a string Find any string that has the following two words in it: “dog” and “vet” (yes, I know, I didn't get last week's discussion out there. It will be there shortly...)
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Thursday, December 08, 2005 3:45 PM

Overtraining

Fatty is talking about overtraining as a possible excuse for not riding, and mentions Friel's statement on overtraining () Less than one-tenth of one percent of the general population is capable of attaining such a feat. That's a pretty powerful statement,
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Thursday, December 08, 2005 1:26 PM

Memories of layoffs

Bob (of Bob's Top 5) has a nice post about layoffs . Here's my story (well, one of my stories - maybe I'll tell the second one some other time). Near the end of the 80's, I worked for MicroRIM (of R:Base fame). Trivia fact: R:Base grew out of software
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Monday, December 05, 2005 7:14 PM

More HDTV info

I wrote about HDTV a while back, and now Rory has added some more information ..
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Monday, December 05, 2005 7:40 AM

Regex 101 Exercise I1 - Match a floating point number

Regex 101 Exercise I1 - Match a floating point number Match a floating point number. Sample strings: You know what a floating point number is.
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Friday, December 02, 2005 1:10 PM

Death star

Here's a description . From Bad Astronomy Blog
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Friday, December 02, 2005 9:33 AM

Regex 101 Discussion S6 - Change the extension on a file

Regex 101 Exercise S6 - Change the extension on a file Given a filename including path, change the extension to .out. Input string example: C:\utility\Processor.cs ***** I said in the exercise description that this take a bit of care. One first blush
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