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Extracting URLs, not perfect but "good enough"

Thu, 30 Oct 2008 23:52:32 GMT

Detecting URLs in text is harder than you would expect. In fact, it can't be done with a set of hard rules, but we can get very close by using a single .NET regular expression. Purists will protest, but what's wrong with "good enough"?

ProMesh.NET v2.0 RC1 is (finally) out

Mon, 01 Sep 2008 03:31:02 GMT

After months of writing documentation, the first release candidate of ProMesh.NET v2.0 has been released in the wild. ProMesh.NET is a powerful MVC framework for .NET 2.0 that has been around for a long time, but today it finally reached another important milestone.

Unused code is the worst of the 7 Wastes of Software

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 21:14:07 GMT

Today I was having another round of conversations with a buddy of mine about the concept of waste and unused code. In agile there is a concept called YAGNI (You Ain't Gonna Need It) that basically states that you should not add code that is not immediately needed as it is waste.

CoolStorage.NET 1.2.0 released

Fri, 30 May 2008 03:29:53 GMT

It has been almost one year since the last public release of CoolStorage.NET ("cool" open-source object mapper for .NET 2.0), but this doesn't mean the product was dead. A lot of people regularly downloaded the latest builds from CodePlex and I received a lot of great feedback, which finally lead to the release of version 1.2.

SharpTemplate.NET pre-release on CodePlex

Wed, 21 May 2008 21:31:02 GMT

Introducing SharpTemplate.NET, a lightweight general-purpose template engine for .NET 2.0. It allows you to incorporate template parsing in your .NET applications. Perfect for code generators, reporting tools, mass-mailing applications, etc.

Video: Intro to Spec# - Future of development

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 10:53:35 GMT

The future of development. True design by contract. Even less time in the debugger. I'm excited!