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Email Regex Pattern

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 08:33:35 GMT

An email regex pattern

Top 12 SEO Tips

Sun, 22 Mar 2009 12:48:08 GMT

Twelve on-page optimization tips which if you will follow you will never regret

Why ++ operator is not thread safe

Fri, 13 Feb 2009 00:46:14 GMT

Here is a quick hint on how to make your software thread safe.

8 ways to be a better programmer in 6 minutes.

Tue, 10 Feb 2009 16:31:06 GMT

It's always nice to read a post where you already follow some of the suggestions but find the odd useful nugget, I dislike seeing literals in my source code and the hint about making them stand out with nasty color coding is something I'll be giving a go!

Googleman - Quite possibly the best WPF application ever

Tue, 10 Feb 2009 06:01:03 GMT

Googleman is a fun and pointless application for launching Google.com in the style of the Batman 60s TV show, complete with spinning Google logo and sound effects. Now when a friend or co-worker says "To Google!" you can open your favourite search engine in style. Googleman uses WPF and is written using the MVP pattern.

SQL SERVER - Quickest Way to - Kill All Threads - Kill All User Sessio

Tue, 10 Feb 2009 00:46:02 GMT

More than a year ago, I wrote how to kill all the processes running in SQL Server. Just a day ago, I found the quickest way to kill the processes of SQL Server. While searching online I found very similar methods to my previous method everywhere. Today in this article, I will write the quickest way to achieve the same goal. Make sure to bookmark it.

Web Deployment with VS 2010 and IIS

Mon, 09 Feb 2009 17:16:02 GMT

The MSDeploy tool which will be included in Visual Studio 2010 includes some fixes for key painpoints like database deployment and managing different web.config settings in development, test, and production.

Conditional IE CSS Hack

Tue, 03 Feb 2009 01:14:21 GMT

Great little CSS hack for IE browsers, especially when IE6 browsers are causing problems.

Clearing Vista's saved passwords

Fri, 21 Nov 2008 16:51:58 GMT

Ever wondered where your saved credentials are stored on Windows, and how to delete them? Find out here! A handy little tool if you need to clear down access to remote resources

Displaying XML just like Internet Explorer

Wed, 05 Nov 2008 01:39:02 GMT

This is everything you need to display XML in your webpage the same way IE displays it when you open an XML document in IE.

Make a positive number a negative number in 1 line of C# code - A Quiz

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 20:02:46 GMT

Any other cool ways of making a positive number a negative?

Simple Regex for cleaning illegal characters from a string.

Tue, 17 Jun 2008 01:32:36 GMT

I use this regex loads when writing dynamic urls.

A good coding font makes a difference. Envy Code R, better than ever!

Wed, 28 May 2008 02:46:12 GMT

Am I the only one who believes a great programming font can boost your productivity and increase your coding joy? Check out Damien Guard's superb new release of Envy Code R, my favorite coding font.

Fast ASP.NET web page loading by batching javascripts downloads

Fri, 16 May 2008 23:01:12 GMT

Hack for the .Net script manager to pull all needed javascript files at once and push them to the bottom of the html to speed up rendering.

The easiest string to/from byte array I've found

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 14:42:50 GMT

When looking for a utility function to convert from a hex string to a byte array, I found this example .. works a treat!

How to disable web.config Inheritance for Child Applications?

Tue, 15 Apr 2008 23:01:02 GMT

Each ASP.NET Web Application has its own configuration file called web.config file. In fact every directory in ASP.NET application can have one. Settings in each web.config file apply to the directory where its placed, and all the subdirectories of that directory. This is called Configuration Inheritance and it can cause serious headaches if you are not fully aware of how it works...

Dear Software Tool Vendors...I'm Breaking Up With You

Thu, 10 Apr 2008 01:16:04 GMT

Ever feel like you can't keep up with the latest and greatest and things are getting more complex not easier? So does Jimmy Bogard.

Browser version detection in Javascript

Thu, 03 Apr 2008 13:23:39 GMT

Here is a list of tests you can use to figure out which browser your client is running

Geting the position of the mouse pointer in JavaScript (Works in IE7)

Thu, 03 Apr 2008 13:18:34 GMT

The following function will return the position of the mouse pointer based on the event. It actually works in IE7.

Tips for IE8

Thu, 03 Apr 2008 09:13:29 GMT

IE8 and some tips

Using the Observer Pattern

Wed, 02 Apr 2008 20:01:04 GMT

This article walks through a C# example of implementing the Observer design pattern using an interesting video game example

Customise Password Recovery Email

Mon, 31 Mar 2008 03:20:33 GMT

Implement your own Password Recovery Email rather than rely on the simple mail defination of the PasswordRecovery control. Using this method you can replace the password recovery mail with more sophisticated emails using alternate views and linked resources

DeepZoom in C# - Not just possible, but easy

Fri, 14 Mar 2008 02:46:02 GMT

DeepZoom is a new technology which has been added to Silverlight 2 which gives you a new and unique way of managing images within your application. It is implemented by the <MultiScaleImage> element in XAML, which, as its name suggests, gives you the facility to control scale and zoom of your images, with Silverlight providing a huge virtual space on which these images can be drawn. This is best described by example. Here you can see an image of a kids science project.

VB.net, oh how I hate thee, let me count the ways...

Fri, 14 Mar 2008 02:01:02 GMT

A developer who is forced to work in VB.net finally hits the tipping point. Oh, and that developer is me.

stylizedweb.com - Most used CSS tricks

Thu, 13 Mar 2008 05:01:02 GMT

Earlier before I have written an article about current best CSS hacks which you can see here And now here's the list of today's most used CSS tricks - tips. I have added image examples for most of them because of critics on CSS hacks article. If you think I have missed any please let me know.