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February 2007 - Posts

Wednesday, February 21, 2007 12:34 PM

New "stickies"

I was having a hard time finding some of my own interesting posts, so I've decided to add a list "Stickies" with articles of links to some blogs (& other content) helpful to understanding a particular topic. So my first sticky is " Custom Cultures
Posted by shawnste | 0 Comments
Tuesday, February 20, 2007 3:54 PM

First day of week and the Vista Calendar Gadget

A user asked how to make the first day of the week on the Vista Calendar gadget a Monday because they're from Bulgaria and used to Monday as the first day of the week. (Personally I think Sundays a strange "1st" day too, but that's a digression) The first,
Posted by shawnste | 27 Comments
Thursday, February 15, 2007 9:39 AM

Remember not to use strings for random byte sequences.

A different, more secure, Shawn , blogged " Don't Roundtrip Ciphertext Via a String Encoding ". I've mentioned this before ( UTF8 Security and Whidbey Changes ), but its a good idea to not pretend that random data is a string and try to Encode or Decode
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