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Sunday, June 13, 2004 8:09 AM

A quick note on security and anti-spam tactics that take advantage of human pattern matching abilities...

Okay, so the BlogX engine now has a security word. Well, that is fine I guess. These strips take advantage of the ability of the human mind to process patterns and make out words in a distorted image. So I'll start by saying, I've failed the recognition...
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Tuesday, June 08, 2004 6:51 PM

People spend a lot of time solving the traffic problem, but I always figured they were further than they really are...

People that enjoy math tend to appreciate complex problems, especially problems that have more than one solution, and possibly more than one optimal solution. That makes traffic congestion an ideal problem for people to try and solve. Using Seattle and...
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Thursday, April 01, 2004 5:13 AM

XSLT used to get all the girls, now it is just a washed up junkie ;-)

Don't flame me yet. I don't think XSLT is really a washed up junkie, but I do have to say that people have really chosen to make extended use almost any other XML technology just to avoid using XSLT. Or do they just not realize how powerful XSLT really...
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Thursday, March 25, 2004 12:44 AM

For every piece of data made available via a schema, thousands more abound...

Matt Wayward got me thinking with his blog article on the http://weblogs.asp.net/mattwar/archive/2004/03/24/95790.aspx current usage of schemas to validate incoming data and the possiblity that this validation comes at a high cost. What is the cost of...
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Saturday, March 20, 2004 9:36 PM

Want faster regular expressions? Maybe you should think about that IgnoreCase option...

Let me start with a disclaimer. RegexOptions.IgnoreCase is a very powerful option that allows you to match ignore character casing during matches irregardless of the currently running culture. In other words, this will allow you to take into account other...
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