Wes' Puzzling Blog

... trying to solve the puzzles of .NET

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    Chris talks about learning to learn. I have to say I totally agree. All through college that is what I kept telling myself, I'm only here to learn how to learn.
    Anyway here is a little algorithm to answer "How to" questions according to Chris which I agree with.

    public void Why() 
{    
  if(NotClear)
    Why(); 
}
    If you think about it, this is human nature just remember when you were a child and asked Why, Why, Why...

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  • Frozen Throne

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    Warcraft III Frozen Throne Expansion Set was released today. I've got mine, what about you. Just when you think you might get some work done. :)

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  • Quarter Century Old

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    A quarter of a century ago my brain was plugged into the Matrix :)

    Man I feel like I'm getting old (although not as old as some of you) :)

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  • UP Javascript

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    Well I've started using Firebird after hearing about it from these weblogs. So far I like it and I think I'm about to make it my default browser.

    One thing I'm missing from my google toolbar in IE is the Up button to take me up one directory level. So I was thinking of a way to do this and so I decided to write a small bookmarklet:

    javascript:var loc=location.href.match(/(\w+:\/\/[\w.]+\/(?:[^\s\/]*\/)*)[^\s\/]+\/?/); if(loc!=null) void(location.href=loc[1]); UP

    I threw together a regular expression to parse the url to get the parent. I thought some other people may find this useful so there it is.

    NOTE: I have only tested this lightly in IE 6 and Firebird 0.6

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  • Ingo's Nine Rules of Remoting

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    In this article I try to shed some light on using Remoting in different environments and also recommend which features to use and which to avoid depending on your scenario. If you use Remoting or plan on doing so, this article will help you to avoid a number pitfalls which could lower or even kill your application's stability, reliability and scalability. Read here.

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  • Online Bookmark Manager...

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    I'm trying to find a good online bookmark manager I have looked into most of them that are list on http://useful.webwizards.net/wbbm.htm but I haven’t found one that I really like yet. Does anyone use one or know of one they think is good? There surely has to be a good one out there somewhere, but until I find one I guess I will have to write my own.

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  • weblog Style Sheet

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    I created my own style sheet for my weblog, check it out and let me know what you think.  Thanks Andrew for getting me started.  I must warn you that I'm really bad with colors but I did my best. :)  I'm open for suggestions.

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  • Random Color from Known Color List

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    Some one in an asp.net forum asked how to select a random color from the list of known colors so I wrote a little code to do this. I wrote a GetRandomColor and GetRandomNumber method which uses the RandomNumberGenerator from the System.Security.Cryptography namespace. As far as I know this is the best random number generator built into the .Net Framework.

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