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Irregular expressions regularly
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Productivity and Efficiency - being more productive
Good to see that Mark has blog'ged about some of the productivity based ideas that came up during a recent e-mail session that we shared. Hopefully I'll have time to construct some of the ideas that I had about this topic into a well written post sometime soon :-)
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Personalization (ASP.NET) - a new GotDotNet User Sample
UPDATE: Useful HttpCookie faq: http://www.cookiecentral.com/faq/ regarding limits on sizes of cookies etc.
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Display an ASP.NET DataGrid in Microsoft Excel
I was putting the finishing touches on a web application tonight when I discovered something really cool...
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MarkUp component
I've uploaded the initial release of the MarkUp component on the GotDotNet workspace. The workspace can be found here:
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RssFeed - a server control to display rss feeds
The other night I gave a talk to my local VB User Group about blogging and some of the technologies that have sprung up to support it such as Rss, Opml, Aggregators and Blogging apps (such as .Text). I also mentioned how it is amazing that there are so many free (many with full source code) tools that you can grab to quickly implement a blogging solution. One of the tools that I forgot to mention was the rssFeed control which was the brainchild of Scott Mitchell and now lives in its own GotDotNet workspace.
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RegexLib.com minor site alterations
Last night I added a couple of new features to the RegexLib.com site:
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2 Notables - Rss + Rss and Outlook (Both come with source)
First, Duncan mentioned about RssConnect; I've been looking at this app for a week or so now and I loved some of the UI "bits":
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One fine day
This morning I woke up extra early in preparation for doing a final build of an application that I've worked on for several months. So, while I checked my e-mail over a bowl of pre-ride cereal, I noticed one piece of mail notifying me that I've achieved MVP status within the ASP.NET community. What can I say? What an achievement, thanks for the recognition :D
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Defensive coding practices - check inputs
Something which, although I knew a bit about through my scant knowledge of using the Command line, had never really dawned up me. I created 2 files called "File.txt" and put them into the following locations:
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A simple Business Rules Manager
I read a seriously cool article today on Msdn about creating a "Rules Manager". In it, Rockford Lhotka demonstrates how to create a central controller for validation rules. The rules manager allows you to create rules at all sorts of levels and helps to abstract the task of managing validation away from individual Forms so that the validation logic is all in one place. As an example of this, imagine creating a "Human" class and assigning some rules such as: