Greg Hewgill published a bunch Stack Overflow ebooks and StackExchange stats.
His readme explains a bit more on the books.
The blog he maintains makes up for some nice reading too.
Be sure to read the blog entry on the ebooks.
–jeroen
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The hilarious answer on Stack Overflow in why not to parse html with RegEx
Posted by jpluimers on 2011/02/09
Quite a while ago, user bobince wrote great answer on why not to parse html with RegEx.
Somehow people fail to recognize the brilliance of the answer, and try to simplify it into something like “don’t, use an XML or HTML parser in stead”.
bobince even posted some nice contra-examples that are impossible to parse in RegEx (heck, even most regular HTML and XML parsers have difficulties with them).
So: enjoy the beauty of the answer while it is still locked for editing.
–jeroen
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Beyond Compare 3.2.4.13298 – Changelog – Softpedia
Posted by jpluimers on 2011/02/08
My favourite text comparison tool just got updated on February 7th, 2011.
What’s new in Beyond Compare 3.2.4.13298:
- “Select All” and “Insert” are now available in line details but affect main display.
- Fixed copying to the clipboard including gaps as blank lines.
- “Paste” is now available even if no rows are visible.
- “Edit” is no longer enabled if no rows are visible.
and more…
–jeroen
via Beyond Compare 3.2.4.13298 – Changelog – Softpedia.
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GExperts 1.34 (Stable Release) was released on January 5, 2011.
Posted by jpluimers on 2011/02/08
I totally forgot to post this earlier this year, so here it goes:
GExperts 1.34 (Stable Release) was released on January 5, 2011.
It supports Delphi 6 to Delphi XE.
You can download it here.
From the Change Log in Readme.txt:
- General: Added support for RAD Studio XE. Minor bugfixes and updates to the help files. (Erik)
- Set FocusControl: Add tool to assign focus control of labels by selecting the related label and wincontrol or a group of wincontrols, and the tool tries to guess the label to associate with each control. (Daniel Maltarollo and Erik)
- Grep: Allow excluding any number of directories from a search.
- Grep: Always center the match line in the Grep Result context pane.
- Components to Code: Optionally generate code to free all created components (Peter Dzomlija).
- Hide/Show Non-Visual Components: Added support for TFrame designers (Erik).
–jeroen
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All-In-One Code Framework, your one stop shop for Windows code samples, examples and guidelines | Coding4Fun Blog | Channel 9
Posted by jpluimers on 2011/02/07
The All-In-One Code Framework is a valuable asset for your tool box for any Windows development environment.
–jeroen
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The #reflector licensing debacle
Posted by jpluimers on 2011/02/06
Earlier this week, Red Gate announced that the new Reflector version 7 would cost USD 35, as of March 2011, and the current free version 6.6 will expire on May 30th, 2011.
That caused a lot of stir, on their forum, twitter, reddit and a lot of other places. Even an old thread at StackOverflow got a new boost. It seems Red Gate did not read Social media judo: How to turn a fight into a brand-building moment.
Here is a summary of the past, present and future of things happening around reflector, including some workarounds and alternative products.
First a bit of history.
Lutz Roeder over the years developed .NET Reflector as a free tool. A few hightlights: Read the rest of this entry »
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Redirecting Routes To Maintain Persistent URLs
Posted by jpluimers on 2011/02/03
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Windows Azure platform 30 day pass – not only for USA people
Posted by jpluimers on 2011/02/03
A lot of places mentioned that Microsoft is offering a Windows Azure platform 30 day pass for USA people.
But visiting the Windows Azure platform 30 day pass link includes an extensive country list.
So it looks like non USA people can make use of it too.
–jeroen
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Will #Cecil – #Mono be the #reflector successor?
Posted by jpluimers on 2011/02/02
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Twitter / @Erik van Appeldoorn: Reading code is way much h …
Posted by jpluimers on 2011/01/31
No need to elaborate:
Reading code is way much harder than writing code. So please write readable code.
–jeroen
via Twitter / @Erik van Appeldoorn: Reading code is way much h ….
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