Yesterday, I moved my blog over to the new release 1.5 of WordPress. I had been using version 1.2.2 of WordPress previously, as packaged in Debian unstable. Now I wanted to use the downloadable version, to be more flexible in the future to do experiments. The first problem I faced was that I didn’t want to have any downtime while I was playing around with the new version, porting my theme and everything. So I started off by cloning my complete WordPress database in MySql by dumping it to an SQL …
In this post, Dave Templin explains the purpose of the .vshost.exe that gets created automatically by Visual Studio Whidbey. What it also mentions is the fact that the application domain my code runs in is of course different when I run in the debugger. I found a problem with this where the FriendlyName is concerned. I’ve been using the FriendlyName to construct names based on my application’s exe name, the same way the normal app.config files work. The problem is, as soon as I run th …
An interesting announcement in Gaurav Khanna’s blog: He (I think he’s a he, please tell me if that’s wrong) has got a managed implementation of the Windows CE Remote API. This is his post about CERapi (the name for his managed API).
I just read a very interesting article in Chris Pratley’s OneNote blog, titled OneNote Shared Sessions. Although I’ve been using OneNote for a long time (and lately even more on my Motion Computing M1400 Tablet PC), I had never had a close look at that feature. Now I tried it, I find it fantastic! Not only does it simply work very well, it’s really easy to use (there’s a nice introduction at OneNoteAnswers) and it tries to be easily compatible with your network setup by using only one UDP port …
A new forum for SAM, the Skype Answering Machine, is now available at www.sam-forum.tk. This is supposed to be a parallel institution to the SAM Yahoo! group.
Copernic Desktop Search v1.5 Beta has been announced, here’s the What’s New page with the download link. The most important thing is right at the bottom:
API for adding custom file indexers
New COM API allowing third-party developers to create plug-ins enabling new file type indexing (view PDF documentation) That’s a feature that’ll really set them apart from other products, plus it proves to me they are really listening to their customers: I’m one of those who requested that feature …
Lately, I’ve been reading several blog articles about regular expressions. I’d like to throw in my vote for the most important sentence in Jeff Atwood’s article Regex use vs. Regex abuse:
All developers should learn to use basic regular expressions, because they’ll produce better, more flexible, more maintainable code with them.
Differing from what Jeff further states in his My Buddy, Regex article (which also features a very useful tool, RegexBuddy) , I actually do subscribe to the UNIX re …
This is obviously not new, but I didn’t know it yet: ILIDE#