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i just installed IE7 beta, and i liked it. It was the first time that i used a tabbed browser and it helps a lot. A lot of people here are already using firefox though. I liked the new default font, Verdana, my Visual Studio code editor font, although i still don't have an idea where to change it or...
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I was reading around ASPNET forums when I got this interesting information about the order of directories returned by the DirectoryInfo.GetDirectories() function here by an MVP. "The rule of thumb used to be that the NTFS file system would return file names in alphabetical order, while a FAT file system...
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i have this habit of listening to developer questions around my workplace. if i know that the answer given by the other person is wrong rightaway, i find a way to inform both of them (respectfully of course) of the correct answer. if in case i don't know about it, i just take notes of the problem and...
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I've heard before when i bought the philipps dvd player that there are undocumented steps on how to unlock and play dvds from different region. I haven't really researched more on this until i was not able to play the harry potter dvd that i got from my cousin luisa. Now that I have found it and tested...
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I only have three primary tools in coding, Visual Studio, Usenet and MSDN Library. There are a number of developers out there who are not aware of Usenet (user network) which is now accessible through Google Groups . They just search using plain google and browse through each result page. Although some...
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i've been using a lot of bitwise operation in my stored procedures lately as seen in my previous blog post . luckily, i was able to use it to answer the previous trivia question from PHISSUG where i was able to receive good feedback. now I have two free MS exam vouchers (another from a PHINUG trivia...
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i'm surprised to know just now that gmail does not allow compressed attachment files containing executables (sending and receiving). thumbs up for security, now i have to rename my installer files to a non-exe, :p...
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I once read an article about the behavior when one clicks a hyperlink to open another window for Internet Explorer that it is executed within the same process with the one who launched it. In other words, both IE windows will be using the same iexplore.exe seen on the Processes tab of Task Manager ....
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My friend owns this shop in Laguna whom I am trying to help to configure his workstations. Currently, all the users are using the Administrator account (yeah I know...) so there are spywares and viruses everywhere. Luckily, he hasn't experienced a major problem with his pc's. Although I am a developer...
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Sahil Malik has another funny post regarding Bad Application Architect Diseases . I chuckled upon reading the section about XMLitis. Here is an excerpt: XMLitis : This is a dangerous disease that creeps upon you unknowingly. Before you know, you start writing emails in XML, you start dreaming in XML...
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I have long wanted to have a utility to know what particular windows process is using a particular assembly. Sometimes you want to delete an assembly which you can’t because a process, most of the time a windows service is still using it. I finally googled yesterday and saw Process Explorer . I can also...
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found this image in aspnet forums...
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I got this from Sahil Malik and it is driving me crazy, i'll try to give it a try some other time, homeward bound... http://flash.qbol.net/pl;p/youxi/images/04042203.swf
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Today's WTF made me laugh as hell, poor Gwen...
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I was wondering if Inquirer supports RSS Feeds so I can just browse them using RssBandit. I emailed them and found out that they are currently testing RSS Support. These are the feeds that the guy from Inquirer gave me. http://ruby.inq7.net/rss/rss_metro.xml http://ruby.inq7.net/rss/rss_nation.xml http...