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Array tricks I seem to forget

September 13, 2007
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Having developed in C and VB6 at the start of my career there is a definite habit of creating utility modules that help ...

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Windows Live

September 11, 2007
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I spent some time yesterday installing the new Windows Live suite of products which primarily consists of Live Writer, ...

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Do I regret buying the Zune?

September 06, 2007
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I must admit after seeing the latest line up from iPod it really took the wind out of my Zune sails. As if the iPod ...

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Playing with Windows Vista

August 31, 2007
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I hop on my wife's laptop every opportunity I get, I think the Vista UI is just super slick. I was adjusting the volume ...

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Assembly Binding Log

August 29, 2007
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I was debugging some issues at work and we ended up discovering a compatibility issues with some the dll's. These ...

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Regular Expressions

August 29, 2007
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Validation with regular expressions is becoming integral to even the simplest data entry system. I found myself editing ...

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Why Microsoft Points?

August 21, 2007
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In a previous post I was wondering why microsoft had opted to use a point system completely independent of the currency ...

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Video Content for the Zune

August 17, 2007
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After my trip to Portland I was sufficiently annoyed by the lack of the video content available through Zune Software ...

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Windows Desktop Search v3.x

August 11, 2007
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I just finished updating Windows Desktop Search (WDS) to version 3 (I had version 2.6) and there is a marked difference ...

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