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Thursday, May 10, 2007 11:02 PM

Performant isn't a word

Last month I finished writing a lot of the "Performance" chapter for our ASP.NET book. I used the word performant quite a bit, and was a little surprised when the editorial review told me that performant isn't a word . I didn't believe it, but after some...
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Saturday, February 24, 2007 7:31 PM

Not really into Pokemon

Having trouble keeping up with the ever increasing torrent of new technologies? Randall Munroe has a pretty helpful tip - when you're not sure, use the Pokemon defense .
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Wednesday, November 08, 2006 11:05 PM

Code Puzzle #1 - Solution

If you haven't read the puzzle, you can read more about it on my previous post . The questions: (Answer this first) Take a guess - how many numbers do you think there are between 1 and 1 million that are divisible by their reverse. Any? Fifty? A thousand...
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Wednesday, November 08, 2006 12:19 AM

Code Puzzle #1 - What numbers under one million are divisible by their reverse?

The other day I got stuck waiting in a slow line at the store all hopped up on espresso and breakbeat , so I started trying to think of numbers which are evenly divisible by their reverse. Example: If 721 were divisble by 127, I'd have a match. Yes...
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Friday, October 27, 2006 11:06 PM

Can Operating Systems tell if they're running in a Virtual Machine?

Or, do androids know they're dreaming of electric sheep... There was some recent news on Windows Vista EULA restrictions relating to Virtual Machines . Vista Home Editions aren't allowed to be run inside a Virtual Machine, and Vista Ultimate in...
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Wednesday, October 11, 2006 12:23 AM

[OT] Getting stupid with Smart Art in PowerPoint 2007

Sure, you've seen the Gettysburg PowerPoint Presentation . You may have even seen the Death Start Attack PowerPoint, or David Byrne's PowerPoint fueled artwork . PowerPoint has always been there when we needed our bullet points to say something...
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Monday, September 04, 2006 2:36 AM

Sometimes it's easier to just hex edit the assembly

Summary PalPal's Single Item Purchase links are not technically valid - the query portion of the URL doesn't start with a question mark. This confuses ASP.NET 2.0's Response.Redirect(url) call, which causes the return URL to be malformed....
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Monday, July 03, 2006 4:56 PM

Motorcycle blogging from San Diego to the Arctic Circle

As Phil mentioned earlier, my brother Brian is blogging his motorcycle trip from San Diego, California to Deadhorse, Alaska . Blogging a long trip is getting routine, but what's interesting is that Brian's actually blogging from a computer / webcam /...
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Thursday, June 01, 2006 7:04 AM

Google TechTalks (EngEdu)

Google's been posting videos of some interesting Tech Talks on video.google.com . Most of them focus on computer science topics, but there are also some general informational videos on topics like astronomy, biotech and biofuels. I haven't had the time...
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Friday, April 14, 2006 8:39 PM

Assault on 13th Labour - Cross Platform Distributed Computing in .NET

BoingBoing linked to a distributed program attack on an encryption puzzle on Perspex City called Assault on 13th Labour . What caught my eye was the fact that it's a .NET console application which runs on Mac and Linux under Mono as well as Windows under...
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