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.TEXT Search – How To

Posted in Everything, Software Development, tagged on December 28, 2004 | 2 Comments »

I’ve just completed an “advanced searching” module for .TEXT.  Just before Christmas I had added an elementary searching feature to my blogs that simply looked for a substring in the title and body of blog posts. Over the holiday I found time to enhance search to be a little more intelligent, so as to ignore [...]

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Books Gifts for Christmas

Posted in Everything, Miscellaneous, tagged on December 26, 2004 | Leave a Comment »

Yesterday I received Applied Microsoft .NET Framework Programming from my wife, Lisa. ..and Introducing Microsoft ASP.NET 2.0 from Eva and Laszlo. Thanks to you all, I shall very much enjoy reading both of these books over the holidays.

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Added Search to Blogs

Posted in Applications, Everything, tagged on December 22, 2004 | Leave a Comment »

Wahoo! I just added a search feature to all of my blogs, hosted on RobGarrett.com. It’s a primitive search that looks for search terms in the title of body of posts and displays the top 50 results. Unfortunately my search isn’t smart enough to ignore HTML tag syntax, so if you search for Rob you’ll [...]

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Another IE Venerability

Posted in Applications, Everything, tagged on December 17, 2004 | Leave a Comment »

http://secunia.com/internet_explorer_cross-site_scripting_vulnerability_test/ Only, after locking down IE with Spybot I don’t experience the symptoms, and Firefox doesn’t suffer from it either :)

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Converted to Firefox

Posted in Applications, Everything, tagged on December 15, 2004 | 3 Comments »

I never thought I’d see the day in which I said “I’m switching from Internet Explorer”, but today it happened. My friend Anton showed me the delights of FireFox, and after dealing with a recent attack of malware and spyware, downloaded through IE, I decided to give it a shot. The first thing that is [...]

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Google Suggests…

Posted in Applications, Everything, tagged on December 13, 2004 | Leave a Comment »

This is really cool: http://www.google.com/webhp?complete=1&hl=en. Google is ahead of the curve once again, and introduces a search screen that auto-completes the search terms based on what other users have searched for previously. It’s real fast too. Here’s how they did it… http://dotnetjunkies.com/WebLog/anoras/archive/2004/12/12/36161.aspx

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Browser Venerability

Posted in Applications, Everything, tagged , on December 9, 2004 | 2 Comments »

http://secunia.com/multiple_browsers_window_injection_vulnerability_test/ Secunia has reported a Windows Injection Venerability, which allows insecure web sites to hijack other secure web sites by exploiting named pop-up windows. This venerability affects most browsers, including Internet Explorer 6 on Windows XP SP2, Mozilla Firefox, Opera and Netscape. Secunia’s web site has details on how to check if your browser is affected. So [...]

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Object References in C#

Posted in Everything, Software Development, tagged on December 8, 2004 | 1 Comment »

I have been working with some code written by other developers and it appears that there is some confusion with using the ref prefix on object parameters passed to a function. The following example illustrates some of the code I came across: using System;   namespace foo {       internal class MyClass       {             private int _x [...]

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Developing Software without Requirements?

Posted in Everything, Software Development, tagged on December 7, 2004 | Leave a Comment »

I’ve been writing software for a number of years now, most of my experience has involved developing for large corporate and government entities. In each of the positions that I have been employed I have grown to expect different answers to the question: “what software engineering strategies do you adopt?“. Experience has taught me that [...]

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Eagle mounted camera

Posted in Everything, Miscellaneous, tagged on December 6, 2004 | Leave a Comment »

This is really cool. Animal planet is hosting movies taken from miniature cameras strapped to a golden eagle, named Tilly. Tilly lives in the Argyle Hills in Scotland and we get to see first hand what it’s like to be flying on an Tilly’s back as she soars the hills and gets into a dog fight with [...]

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