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Apparently doing String.IndexOf("special character") might not always work as you expect it. The æ character is found in the string "ae" Test yourself by dropping this into a .aspx page:
<% if("ae".IndexOf("æ") == 0) {Response.Write("why?");}%>
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Just in case anyone else ever has this problem, the asp:textbox in ASP.NET has the two width properties "Width" and "Columns" if you want to set the width of a textbox to a certain size so it will display correctly across browsers, both width and columns
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I am annoyed. I am extremely annoyed. I have just taken an hour to debug an error which did not exist. I downloaded the source code for the newest taxi server for 1.124. Installed, set permissions, etc. When I hit the server, it froze. ASPNET went to
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One of the problems with long web queries is user feedback. If a SQL command takes seconds or even minutes to complete, or if some other heavy processing must be done, users must wait idly as the status bar creeps along, blindly guessing at how long
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While your head is still spinning from the last post, don't think that SQL server is the answer either. If an adversary knows your SQL server setup, they can find weaknesses in your database calls and do "sql server injection attacks." Basically, since
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I take back what I said here about the C# BigInt class. It actually is very well put together. I take issue with the fact that .Equals() does not take an Object, but aside from that it does everything you'd really want a bigint class to do. I'm wondering
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@stake recently published a survey claiming that the .NET framework is more easily secured than Linux. Their methodology includesa list of actions system admins needed to perform to harden the web server. Their criteria mainly hinges on usability and
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we need a blog web service. Or do we already have one? I want to programmatically author rss.
The only problem would be security, which we could do through WS-SEC I've been looking through lately.
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Ever since I started using mono to do my 1.124 problem sets, I've noticed that my honed programmer's edge has been dulled by years of working with Intellisense. If I need to take a sqare root of a number, I no longer can remember where to find the function.
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browsing around for more info:weblog mentioned on a slashdot about the BBC article with a little more info.the whitepaper on MIT group's UI. They bring up some vaild points about the display being very small, task management in that environment, etc.
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A recent BBC article highlighted the oncoming wave of wearable computing devices. While currently the iPod is the biggest hit, with any luck pervasive computing will grow. Some issues still need to be resolved before this becomes a reality:
A power
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Little annoyed today because when I got to work, my windows messenger account would not work. I use trillian normally, so that I can be signed onto several different accounts on different services. Today I got a message that said: “.NET Messenger Service
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google beat me to it :(I run my own little scraper portal called webwalkby, so named because it "walks by" some of the major sites I read frequently every so often and caches their content as rss streams. It grabs me comics, headlines from slashdot, and
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Everyone's heard by now that Longhorn's shipping with a relational database driven file system. While all kinds of problems and perks come with this decision, this decision runs deeper than the obvious implications. By using a relational database, winFS
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Thinking about the IESL blogportal: it would be nice to have an upstream RSS of all our blog entries. i.e. a combined listing of all the blogs the entire group did. This shouldn't be that difficult to hack together given the component rss feeds. Might
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