Posted by jpluimers on 2009/09/21
Since bandwitdth for a lot of users can still be an issue*, it pays off to make your web-pages as light-weight as possible.
When using JavaScript and/or CSS in your sites, you can compress them to save bandwidth.
A good compressor for this is the YUI Compressor, which can compress both JavaScript and CSS.
* Bandwidth can be an issue for instance for people having only GPRS, EDGE or UMTS/3G access, or countries where DSL and cable are not abundant.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2009/09/10
Every now and then I need the ASP.NET RegularExpressionValidator control to validate some user input on a web-page using .NET Regular Expressions (which are very similar to regular expressions used in other languages and frameworks).
Somehow, I have lost loads of time because many of the hits on Google show up high in the results, but do not actually help that much.
So I decided to put up a bunch of links to pages that I think are relevant, or helped me much.
This list is not definitive: please comment when you have links to better information!
Note: this list is current at the instant of the latest edit timestamp: tools might have improved (or disappeared) since then.
Opnions are mine; if you do not agree: please convince me why.
Posted in .NET, ASP.NET, Development, Encoding, JavaScript/ECMAScript, LISP, RegEx, Scripting, Software Development, Unicode, Web Development | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2009/07/16
I just found out that in my updates to TFS 2008 Folder Comparison Filter for both C# and Delphi projects somehow some backslashes (\) were missing.
Oops, sorry :-)
These backslashes are important when excluding directories: if omitted, TFS thinks you want to exclude a filename in stead of a directory name (see Folder Comparison Filters).
It might be due to the HTML pasting issue that I explained in Including formatted sourcecode in WordPress.
Anyway, here is the correct one that has the backslashes at the right places:
!*.pdb;!*.obj;!*.dll;!*.exe;!*.res;!*.resources;!*.cache;!*.ilk;!*.ncb;!obj\;!objd\;!bin\;!lib\;!*.local;!*.identcache;!*.dcu;!__history\;!*.dsk;!*.~*;!*.stat;!*.drc;!*.map;!*.csproj.user;!*.vbproj.user;!*.csproj.webinfo;!*.vbproj.webinfo;!*.suo;!*.bpl;!*.dcp;!*.log;!*.lck
(Note these all should be on one line when pasting them).
–jeroen
Posted in .NET, C# 2.0, C# 3.0, Delphi, Development, Prism, Software Development, Source Code Management, TFS (Team Foundation System), WordPress | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2009/04/28
See this support post:
http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/bug-within-sourcecode-backslash-followed-by-zero-is-removed
It seems even that post is affected by the same bug.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2009/04/22
Since I’m quite new to WordPress it is a learn as-I-go process (sounds familiar huh?) and a major goal of this blog is to keep track of things so that I don’t forget them:
Including formatted code in your blog is easy, WordPress has a FAQ about it!
Basically it comes down to adding the sourcecode shortcode and then make sure the language attribute has the right value.
But there are some gotcha’s that are not in the FAQ:
sourcecode shortcode as “plain text” (or in the HTML editor) otherwise it will get span tags around it and not render as codelanguage code csharp (if you use a non-existing language code, it will not render as code either)The language codes I will probably use most are csharp and delphi, followed by xml and sql and maybe some css and html.
In your editor, you will then see something like this:
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