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PCPlus 260: String searching

I write a monthly column for PCPlus, a computer news-views-n-reviews magazine in the UK (actually there are 13 issues a year — there's an Xmas issue as well — so it's a bit more than monthly). The column is called Theory Workshop and appears in the back of every issue. When I signed up, my editor and the magazine were gracious enough to allow me to reprint the articles here after say a year or so. After all, the PDFs do appear on each issue's DVD after a couple of months. […]

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Archive Calendar now caches post collections

A minor fix, this. The Archive Calendar on the right over there now has support for caching monthly and daily post collections so that the potentially expensive query plus retrieval from the database doesn't happen every time. […]

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PCPlus 259: Algorithm dictionary compression

I write a monthly column for PCPlus, a computer news-views-n-reviews magazine in the UK (actually there are 13 issues a year — there's an Xmas issue as well — so it's a bit more than monthly). The column is called Theory Workshop and appears in the back of every issue. When I signed up, my editor and the magazine were gracious enough to allow me to reprint the articles here after say a year or so. After all, the PDFs do appear on each issue's DVD after a couple of months. […]

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The Gazette starts charging for ancillary stuff

Our local newspaper is the Gazette and we have it delivered every day. Neither of us like it particularly — we also get the New York Times, which is more reliable for news — but having the local news is essential for my wife's work. […]

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GraffitiClient API: calling GraffitiCMS from a program

I have a whole set of posts on my static website that I'd like to transfer over to my Graffiti CMS site, leaving behind a redirect link. Since I was using CityDesk from Fog Creek to blog before, there's no migration tool available. Hey, no problem, I'm a developer at heart so it's just a simple case of opening up a a couple of databases, writing a conversion routine, and Bob's your uncle. […]

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PCPlus 258: Parsing comma-separated values

I write a monthly column for PCPlus, a computer news-views-n-reviews magazine in the UK (actually there are 13 issues a year — there's an Xmas issue as well — so it's a bit more than monthly). The column is called Theory Workshop and appears in the back of every issue. When I signed up, my editor and the magazine were gracious enough to allow me to reprint the articles here after say a year or so. After all, the PDFs do appear on each issue's DVD after a couple of months. […]

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Pasting code from Visual Studio

What with one thing or another, I spend some appreciable amount of my time in Visual Studio. So, like you, I've customized the font and color scheme so that it looks good to me and I can quickly grok code within it. Not as drastically as some, I must say — and given my predilection for grays and muted colors, I'm surprised I haven't gone for this one. […]

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PCPlus 257: Efficient search tools

I write a monthly column for PCPlus, a computer news-views-n-reviews magazine in the UK (actually there are 13 issues a year — there's an Xmas issue as well — so it's a bit more than monthly). The column is called Theory Workshop and appears in the back of every issue. When I signed up, my editor and the magazine were gracious enough to allow me to reprint the articles here after say a year or so. After all, the PDFs do appear on each issue's DVD after a couple of months. […]

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New Archive Calendar

This afternoon, for want of anything better to do with the freezing cold outside and the housework inside, I wrote an archive calendar chalk extension for the website. It's over there on the far sidebar. […]

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Zune-as-a-brick was an infinite loop

Sheer awesomeness. The bug that bricked all those 30GB Zunes on 31st December 2008 was an infinite loop. […]

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