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Amazon reviews gone wild
Now that Amazon is selling groceries, the reviewers have been having some fun. Check out the reviews for Tuscan Whole Milk. Freakin hilarious.
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Visual Studio 2005 oopsie
I was working in Visual Studio 2005 the other day, and noticed something in a dialog box that I’ve seen a hundred (maybe a thousand) times before, and never noticed. It was in the “Add New Item” dialog:
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Absolute positioning in VS2005 HTML designer
In Visual Studio .NET 2003, ASPX pages included a property called pageLayout, which defaulted to “GridLayout” – essentially, CSS absolute positioning for all form elements. Although this is a horrible idea in a production application (I assume MS did it to make it easier to demo rapid application building), it does turn out to have a handy use – it makes it easy to quickly sketch out web forms for UI design or prototyping.
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Visual SourceSafe - recursive handling bug from command line
In case anyone else bangs their head against this – in SourceSafe, there seems to be a bug in recursive file handling using the command line tools. I tried performing a recursive checkout using a specific filename (AssemblyInfo.cs, in this case), but SourceSafe claimed to not find any matching files. However, if I specify a wildcard character (AssemblyInfo*.cs), it works as expected (although it wouldn’t be exactly the right behavior if I had an AssemblyInfo2.cs file). In other words, this: