Wes' Puzzling Blog

There have been a lot of postings the last few months talking about the topic of passphrases vs. passwords and I have finally got around to reading them.

Have you ever had a list of something other than strings and wanted to combine the list in someway to get a single string? You could use string.Join if you could get your list into a string[] but that is not always so easy. Usually I end up writing my own join method.

Code Htmler is a simple program that will translate plain text code into a colorized html version of the code. Currently there exist language definitions for C#, JScript, VB.Net and XML.

It uses regular expressions to match language structures, such as keywords and literals (strings, integer, real, etc.). The language definitions are stored in xml files and so languages can be customized or new languages can be created rather easily.

I have a centralized file server where I store pretty much all of my data. When I got my file server I moved all my data to it including my Visual Studio projects. This was about a year ago. 

Google does it again.

If you are anything like me you hate using the mouse to right click on your Outlook Junk E-mail Folder to select Empty "Junk E-mail" Folder and then on top of that you have to click Yes when it asks you "Are you sure you want to permanently delete all the items and subfolder in the "Junk E-mail" folder?". I hate doing that and I'm more of a hotkey kind of person so I wanted some way to do this with a hotkey.

I'm working on my MS Thesis project (I hope to post more on this soon) and I came across Spec# which is a new programming language that is being worked on by Microsoft Research.

I'm working on a project in C++ and I created a static member function and a static data member in one of my classes. When I tried to compile I kept getting an unresolved external error that was pointing to my static data member and I couldn't figure out what the problem was. Finally after some research (via Google, Msdn, and Stroustrup) I figured out that you have to define the static data member outside the class declaration.