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Irregular expressions regularly
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Instant Messenger 7 - good and bad
I installed the new beta version of the Instant Messenger client last week. The UI is really nice and they've added some great new features. The 2 most obvious of these are "Nudges" and "Winks". Nudges allow you to "shake" the IM client of the person that you are chatting with... I haven't really worked out when is the optimum time to use these yet.
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AssemblyReflector - event based discovery of assemblies
AssemblyReflector (Conchango.Code.Reflection) is an event-based assembly parser - it allows assemblies to be searched for Attributes, Events, Fields, Interfaces, Methods, Nested Types, Properties and Types, by subscribing to the relevent OnDiscover event and then performing a search for the member based on several available search methods;
o Contains(string)
o EndsWith(string)
o Named(string)
o OfType(Type) - Attributes Only
o StartsWith(string)
o WithBindingFlags(BindingFlags)
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Melbourne Geek Dinner and future Canberra Geek Dinners
While I was in Melbourne, I arranged to get a few of the guys together for a geek dinner. This followed hot on that tail of the first one in Canberra a few weeks back. People attending this one were:
· Cameron Reilley - http://reilly.typepad.com/ (Australian Podcasting mogul)
· Matthew Cosier - http://weblogs.asp.net/autocrat/ (Melbourne Microsoft guy and InfoPath extraordinaire)
· William Luu - http://www.will.id.au/blog/ (active Melbourne community guy) -
Presenting and Facilitating
I spent the past couple of days in Melbourne with several other Readify guys doing a course about "presenting and facilitating".
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A new PostXING feature coming...
Chris hinted at a new PostXING feature:
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Made some improvements to the TrackBack Prototype
I refactored the code a bit and added trackback validation:
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Mitch's Shrinklet App
A cool little tray based app for creating "shrunken" urls...
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Prototype of a small trackback system
Last night I prototyped a small trackback system:
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Learning about Trackbacks
Today I learnt a lot more about Trackbacks - I had as I'm hoping to implement them in ProjectDistributor.
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Master Pages and building "nice" sites
Brian is seeking community feedback around the topic of MasterPages to help ascertain the value of the ASP.NET team including some standard, out-of-the-box templates with the product. Read his blog entry here: