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| Blog from Scratch | Wed, 13 May 2009 | Introduction
Creating a blog from scratch is not a clever thing to do. There are too many out there already (DasBlog  , Blogger , WordPress ).
Blog is the new Hello World. However, having played with a couple of them over the years, I found myself frustrated - some being too simple, some too complex. In the end I wanted a blog specific to my evolving requirements. I also wanted an online note-taking system that would allow me to categorise my personal notes in a hierarchical/journal/wiki structure; and then to move a select few into a public blog format.
History
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| C# Voodoo - default(Type) | Wed, 15 Apr 2009 | Q: How to get the default value of a type? return default(myObj.GetType()) does not work.
A: Forums Say...
My Solution
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| A digression into GZIP, 7ZIP in managed C# | Wed, 13 May 2009 | Building my a previous article where I encrypt/decrypt a string, I wanted to go further and ZIP it. So started a
rather long and painful wander into the world in compression.
Knowing the GZIP is included in the .NET framework I naturally started there.
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| SokoSolve Sokoban Client, Part 1 | Wed, 13 May 2009 | For the pleasure of the code. After five or six complete rewrites, and a whole bunch of totally ludicrous
over-engineering my sokoban pet project is finally in good alpha state, perhaps even beta.
"SokoSolve is a Sokoban game implementation with enthusiast tools, the package includes Game, Library,
Solver, Editor, and Generator. The game allows the player to solve puzzles in an animated environment,
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| SokoSolve Sokoban Client, Part 2 | Sat, 16 May 2009 | See SokoSolve Part One
The last release of SokoSolve was in Jan 2008 -- now over a year later it is time to revisit SokoSolve and take stock. For the initial version 1.3.45-beta, most of the development work was done during an intense period of my life while my mom was very sick with cancer. Since then I have not put much effort into the code, nor have I been monitoring or promoting the project as I did in the initial phases. The result being a period of stability during which the project has stood on it own feet.
After spending a couple days reviewing the stats, the site, the code, and its 'google presence', I have the following thoughts:
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| .NET Process Maximum Memory | Tue, 2 Jun 2009 | "This whole article started because of the a memory leak in our Fares Engine.... It has become one of the longest debugs of my career."
The maximum allocatable size of a .NET process depends on the following factors:
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| Twitter from C# | Wed, 24 Jun 2009 | Twitter from C#
How do you update your status from C#. Looking at the twitter API (which is REST based), which has a link
to a blog article on how to post to twitter from c#:
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| A strongly typed Identifier Scheme | Mon, 27 Jul 2009 | Over the years I have tried a number of Identifier schemes:
- Atomic:
String UserId; int UserId; Guid UserId;
- There is no link to the underlying domain type.
- There instances are easily confused. I.e. A page taking a Url param of "Id=123" may refer to a User, UserGroup, UserProfile, NTLM, Email, etc. This gets significantly worse in complex enterprise systems, eg. "ServiceLocationIdentifier" may be named as a local variable called "sl" and the developer needs to correctly interpret this.
- Classic Strongly Typed:
class UserIdentifier { string UserID { get; set; } }
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