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I've made a couple of alterations to the opening tag regex.

I was just chatting to Thomas about RegexSnippets and how I use it to test my regex's.  I think that most people haven't cottoned-on to the fact that you can write test modules within RegexSnippets itself.  To use the code IDE do the following:

While fiddling around in RegexSnippets tonight I concocted this regex to match opening tags and to capture the various elements:

Blogging about mark-up is difficult, I often try to do it with mixed success.  I've been using Word to transfer the colorized mark-up from VS.NET into my blog but, often it will complain about Word's xml formatting.  The new “Word Clean“ function in the .Text blog admin tool not only removes the errant xml metadata but, oftentimes it will remove all coloring!

The other day I was struggling to come to terms with how to perform aggregate queries on a DataTable.  I was able to create calculated columns to display calculated data but, I couldn’t work out how to return aggregated data from a query over a DataTable.

Today one of the guys and I were having a conversation about "stuff"; not particularly interesting or relevant but, nonetheless it was "stuff".  Now this was your typical bored-nerd conversation, you know the one:

Today I had a day of training; the course was a training course for peers that have been elevated to the lofty ranks of middle-management and talked about how to manage "sucessful projects". It was quite a good day and the group of co-middle-managers were all enthusiastic and keen in their participation. I actually like days such as these because you get to excercise your brain and challenge some core beliefs/assumptions. My favourite part was at the beginning when we each had to talk about our favourite "fantasy"; nearly all people talked about financial freedom or sensual holidays in the Greek Isles - not me! I thought that I'd establish my geek-cred early by talking about my dream of building a time machine :-)