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I think that the good folk at Msdn have upped Kent's medication lately because I've noticed a rash of new content streaming into my aggregator which is addressed c/- ASP.NET developer center.

I spent some time this weekend altering RegexLib.com to try and push more information to the "front" of the site.  I've added a couple of repeaters to the Home page that show a listing of recent patterns and also the top 10 contributors.  Clicking on a top contributor takes you to a page that shows all patterns submitted by that particular user.  This is a new page and I'm hoping that it will make the site even more popular and further entice people to use RegexLib.com to store their own patterns.

As I mentioned last week, I've changed the look and feel I've my blog ( thanks to ScottW! ).

I stumbled across this site today which points to the future direction of the blogging “industry“:

In my recent discussion titled: "Is Structure Good", I pondered aloud about what type of company I should be working with today in order that I stitch up a lucrative position with Microsoft in 10 years time. 

For anyone interested in the science of code generation, I'm sure that Joseph's blog will be one to keep an eye on ;-)

Wayne posted an elegant solution on the regex list today in answer to the following question: "How do I find all INPUT tags and pick out the attribute/values within them?". For the record, here's the pattern that Wayne came up with

<input \s+
  (
    (?'Attr'\w+) \s* = \s*
    (?'Value' [^\s"'>]+ | "[^"]*" | '[^']*')
    \s*
  )*      #match zero or more Attrs
  /?>

  Regex rex = new Regex(@"
      <input \s+
      (
        (?'Attr'\w+) \s* = \s*
        (?'Value' [^\s""'>]+ | ""[^""]*"" | '[^']*')
        \s*
      )*      #match zero or more Attrs
      /?>",
      RegexOptions.ExplicitCapture |
      RegexOptions.IgnorePatternWhitespace);
  
  foreach(Match m in rex.Matches( textToSearch ))
  {
    Console.WriteLine("Found a match with these attributes:");
    for(int i=0; i < m.Groups["Attr"].Captures.Count; i++) {
      Console.WriteLine("Attr:  " + m.Groups["Attr"].Captures[i].Value);
      Console.WriteLine("Value: " + m.Groups["Value"].Captures[i].Value);
    }
    Console.WriteLine();
  }

Reading Paul's blog (as you do), I was amused to read about the conundrum faced by dumb people.  Did you know that "they" think that "you" are dumb!