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Determining Whether a String Is Contained Within a String Array (Case Insensitive)

posted @ Tuesday, March 09, 2010 2:14 PM | Feedback (2)

SOLUTION: Outlook Is Stripping Line Breaks From Plain-Text Emails Auto-Generated From My ASP.NET Application!

posted @ Tuesday, December 08, 2009 11:36 AM | Feedback (3)

SOLUTION: JSLint.VS Add-In Always Reports "No Errors" Even For Invalid JavaScript Files

posted @ Thursday, October 15, 2009 3:49 PM | Feedback (6)

Installing the FTP Service for IIS 6.0 On An Alternate Port Number and Configuring Windows Firewall

posted @ Wednesday, June 17, 2009 4:01 PM | Feedback (3)

Happy Pi Day

posted @ Saturday, March 14, 2009 12:53 PM | Feedback (2)

Computer Science Is All About Tradeoffs

posted @ Friday, March 13, 2009 10:37 PM | Feedback (6)

Leo Tolstoy for Developers

posted @ Wednesday, March 04, 2009 7:52 AM | Feedback (2)

Keyboard Thoughts

posted @ Monday, February 09, 2009 7:05 PM | Feedback (6)

Building a BabyCam

posted @ Tuesday, January 27, 2009 10:46 AM | Feedback (3)

What Would You Be Doing If Computers Didn't Exist?

posted @ Thursday, December 04, 2008 1:45 PM | Feedback (6)

Visual Studio Keyboard Shortcut Tip: Ctrl+-

posted @ Monday, November 24, 2008 10:17 AM | Feedback (12)

A Twist on the Monty Hall Problem

posted @ Friday, September 26, 2008 9:56 PM | Feedback (1)

Transferring Large Files

posted @ Friday, September 19, 2008 1:29 PM | Feedback (9)

Three's Company, Too

posted @ Tuesday, September 09, 2008 10:24 PM | Feedback (14)

How Do You Configure the Visual Studio IDE?

posted @ Friday, August 29, 2008 10:00 AM | Feedback (3)

Download CopySourceAsHtml

posted @ Monday, August 25, 2008 9:50 AM | Feedback (4)

The Cast is Off! I've Got Two Functional Hands Again!

posted @ Monday, August 18, 2008 5:25 PM | Feedback (5)

Problems Installing SQL Server 2008 After Installing Visual Studio 2008 SP1? Make Sure You've Updated or Uninstalled Visual Web Developer!

posted @ Friday, August 15, 2008 4:09 PM | Feedback (2)

Losing Tab and Esc Key Functionality in Microsoft Virtual PC 2007

posted @ Saturday, July 26, 2008 10:04 PM | Feedback (5)

Installing Dragon Naturally Speaking (DNS) on Vista / Windows Server 2008 64-Bit

posted @ Saturday, July 19, 2008 8:11 PM | Feedback (3)

Using Dragon NaturallySpeaking

posted @ Saturday, July 19, 2008 7:49 PM | Feedback (8)

Suggestions for a broken hand?

posted @ Tuesday, July 15, 2008 10:27 PM | Feedback (23)

Two Monitors Are Better Than One, But Are Three Better Than Two?

posted @ Thursday, July 10, 2008 8:52 PM | Feedback (11)

For Some Probability Problems, Seeing Can Be Believing

posted @ Tuesday, July 01, 2008 2:54 PM | Feedback (4)

Random Grammar/Style Question

posted @ Thursday, June 26, 2008 3:04 PM | Feedback (7)

Boggle, Anyone?

posted @ Tuesday, April 01, 2008 2:35 PM | Feedback (4)

The Code Trip Rolls into San Diego Tuesday, March 25th

posted @ Wednesday, March 19, 2008 3:28 PM | Feedback (0)

Years of Experience Does Matter

posted @ Friday, February 08, 2008 11:41 AM | Feedback (12)

Anachronisms in Technology-Related Terminology

posted @ Friday, November 09, 2007 9:59 AM | Feedback (9)

4GuysFromRolla.com Abstractly Represented via Stick Figure Drawings on Explodingdog.com!

posted @ Thursday, November 08, 2007 1:53 PM | Feedback (0)

Persistence, Persistence, Persistence

posted @ Saturday, October 27, 2007 8:26 AM | Feedback (4)

Working with Multiple Versions of the SourceGear Vault Client

posted @ Sunday, October 21, 2007 9:20 AM | Feedback (1)

4GuysFromRolla.com Turned Nine Years Old this Month

posted @ Saturday, September 29, 2007 11:23 AM | Feedback (10)

My Karamasoft UISuite Whitepaper

posted @ Friday, September 28, 2007 10:13 AM | Feedback (0)

Comments Back On

posted @ Tuesday, September 11, 2007 12:25 PM | Feedback (0)

Removing Comment Support for the Summer

posted @ Sunday, May 20, 2007 5:27 AM | Feedback (5)

My Upcoming Hiatus

posted @ Saturday, April 28, 2007 10:52 AM | Feedback (4)

Lessons Learned from Running a One-Day Conference

posted @ Monday, April 23, 2007 9:59 PM | Feedback (1)

Jeff Atwood on Putting Down the Mouse

posted @ Thursday, March 29, 2007 10:26 AM | Feedback (0)

Office Layout and Space

posted @ Tuesday, March 27, 2007 5:07 PM | Feedback (2)

REVIEW: HP LaserJet 3050 All-In-One

posted @ Monday, January 22, 2007 6:26 PM | Feedback (1)

Laptop Suggestions, Advice, or Recommendations?

posted @ Wednesday, January 10, 2007 8:43 PM | Feedback (11)

An ASP.NET 2.0 BlackJack Game

posted @ Friday, December 22, 2006 2:57 PM | Feedback (0)

An Interview with Patrick Chu from ItsYourTurn.com

posted @ Tuesday, July 11, 2006 4:00 PM | Feedback (0)

My Blog's Three Year Anniversary

posted @ Tuesday, July 04, 2006 12:35 PM | Feedback (4)

Displaying Formatted Source Code in a Web Page

posted @ Friday, June 30, 2006 9:51 AM | Feedback (13)

4GuysFromRolla.com - Runner Up for asp.netPRO's 2006 Top Community Resource

posted @ Saturday, May 06, 2006 2:39 PM | Feedback (3)

What's with the MSDN2 Page Sizes?

posted @ Wednesday, May 03, 2006 5:08 PM | Feedback (17)

I've Joined the Twenty-First Century - Dual Monitors at Last!

posted @ Friday, April 28, 2006 3:09 PM | Feedback (20)

Visual Studio Express Versions - Free for Life

posted @ Friday, April 21, 2006 1:29 PM | Feedback (1)

Search Trends

posted @ Friday, April 21, 2006 10:49 AM | Feedback (1)

Scott Mitchell - Fabrikam Product Manager!

posted @ Tuesday, April 04, 2006 10:33 AM | Feedback (7)

Review: Programming Visual Basic 2005

posted @ Friday, March 03, 2006 1:33 PM | Feedback (0)

Wizards (Finally) Done Right

posted @ Wednesday, February 22, 2006 9:41 PM | Feedback (1)

Adding Keyboard Shortcuts to PowerPoint

posted @ Friday, January 27, 2006 2:04 PM | Feedback (0)

SoCal Code Camp - A FREE Two-Day Conference!

posted @ Wednesday, January 11, 2006 9:53 AM | Feedback (1)

Reminiscing About Websites Back in the Day

posted @ Thursday, January 05, 2006 9:55 PM | Feedback (16)

Free, Focused ASP.NET Headlines - Consolidated Your Way!

posted @ Tuesday, January 03, 2006 10:54 AM | Feedback (3)

The Microsoft Korean Rap

posted @ Friday, November 11, 2005 2:19 PM | Feedback (4)

Random AdSense Tip

posted @ Thursday, November 10, 2005 8:59 AM | Feedback (1)

A Neat Idea and the RIGHT Implementation

posted @ Sunday, October 23, 2005 1:15 AM | Feedback (2)

A Neat Idea, but a Poor Implementation

posted @ Thursday, October 20, 2005 8:57 AM | Feedback (14)

Another Great Use for GMail

posted @ Friday, October 14, 2005 5:13 PM | Feedback (4)

Bound for the MVP Global Summit on Wednesday

posted @ Monday, September 26, 2005 5:36 PM | Feedback (1)

FeedBurner and Changing a Blog's Feed URL

posted @ Sunday, August 28, 2005 5:23 PM | Feedback (10)

Technology and Poverty

posted @ Friday, August 26, 2005 12:00 AM | Feedback (3)

How Do You Keep Track of TODO Items?

posted @ Thursday, July 21, 2005 3:12 PM | Feedback (31)

Free Tools for Managing Small, Hobby Websites

posted @ Monday, July 04, 2005 2:53 PM | Feedback (3)

Happy Birthday to My Blog!

posted @ Saturday, July 02, 2005 7:27 PM | Feedback (6)

Scott Hanselman's Recommended Tools

posted @ Tuesday, June 28, 2005 9:58 PM | Feedback (9)

I'm No Longer Cutting Edge

posted @ Monday, June 27, 2005 8:43 PM | Feedback (12)

Software Engineering Thought for the Day

posted @ Friday, June 24, 2005 7:49 PM | Feedback (1)

When a Client Won't Pay...

posted @ Saturday, June 18, 2005 7:18 PM | Feedback (35)

Maintaining an Audit Trail

posted @ Friday, June 17, 2005 12:26 PM | Feedback (19)

How are Session IDs guaranteed to be unique?

posted @ Wednesday, June 15, 2005 10:53 PM | Feedback (6)

Need a GMail Invite? Drop Me a Line!

posted @ Thursday, April 28, 2005 3:07 PM | Feedback (38)

Using Email as a Knowledge Base

posted @ Monday, April 25, 2005 9:42 PM | Feedback (10)

Please Don't Forget - URLs are a Public Interface!

posted @ Tuesday, April 12, 2005 6:23 PM | Feedback (11)

Bug in the Hashtable Data Structure in .NET 1.x

posted @ Saturday, April 09, 2005 7:39 PM | Feedback (3)

Quick Spam Fact

posted @ Thursday, March 17, 2005 1:43 PM | Feedback (0)

More Enterprise Library Goodness... and GDS Moves Out of Beta!

posted @ Tuesday, March 08, 2005 10:14 PM | Feedback (5)

An Extensive Examination of Data Structures - Updated for 2.0

posted @ Thursday, February 17, 2005 8:37 AM | Feedback (11)

Review: The Joel On Software Book

posted @ Monday, February 07, 2005 2:54 PM | Feedback (3)

Searching Your Blog Got a Whole Lot Easier

posted @ Tuesday, February 01, 2005 9:54 AM | Feedback (12)

A Guide to Orlando, FL, the ASP.NET Connections Spring 2005 Site

posted @ Monday, January 31, 2005 11:50 AM | Feedback (8)

Stopping Comment Spam in .Text Using Triggers

posted @ Monday, January 24, 2005 11:22 AM | Feedback (19)

I'll Be Speaking at ASP.NET Connections Spring 2005

posted @ Thursday, January 20, 2005 10:42 AM | Feedback (3)

The End of Comment Spam?

posted @ Wednesday, January 19, 2005 9:24 AM | Feedback (14)

How to Manage ListServs - Use GMail

posted @ Tuesday, January 18, 2005 12:36 PM | Feedback (8)

Presentation Style: Lots of Slides or Few?

posted @ Friday, January 14, 2005 9:26 AM | Feedback (12)

A Request for Halo 2 Stats RSS URLs

posted @ Sunday, December 19, 2004 11:03 PM | Feedback (7)

MSN Toolbar Suite Beta Released Today

posted @ Monday, December 13, 2004 6:27 PM | Feedback (9)

Neat Little SQL Server 2000 Enterprise Manager Tip

posted @ Friday, December 10, 2004 12:33 PM | Feedback (21)

Viewing WSE Trace Files

posted @ Friday, December 03, 2004 3:13 PM | Feedback (2)

My AggBug Experiment

posted @ Wednesday, October 13, 2004 9:58 AM | Feedback (7)

The Future of GotDotNet Workspaces?

posted @ Tuesday, September 28, 2004 10:15 AM | Feedback (6)

Another Year Rolls By...

posted @ Monday, September 27, 2004 12:06 PM | Feedback (8)

Version Control for the Solo Developer

posted @ Thursday, September 23, 2004 6:32 PM | Feedback (20)

RSS Feeds You Can't Live Without

posted @ Thursday, September 23, 2004 9:18 AM | Feedback (8)

How Not to Take ASP.NET For Granted

posted @ Thursday, September 16, 2004 1:28 PM | Feedback (2)

The Internet Eats 1.57% of Emails

posted @ Thursday, September 09, 2004 2:12 PM | Feedback (2)

Web Sites Can't You Live Without

posted @ Thursday, September 02, 2004 8:53 PM | Feedback (28)

Programs You Can't Live Without

posted @ Sunday, August 22, 2004 10:50 PM | Feedback (52)

Friday Quiz: Question on .NET 2.0 Generics

posted @ Friday, August 20, 2004 9:26 AM | Feedback (5)

Going Independent: Some Thoughts from James Avery

posted @ Sunday, August 15, 2004 12:43 PM | Feedback (9)

Here's One Way to Win the Browser War

posted @ Monday, August 09, 2004 12:31 PM | Feedback (16)

How Do You Tell if a Number is Prime?

posted @ Friday, August 06, 2004 11:31 PM | Feedback (3)

An Idea for Commuters

posted @ Saturday, July 17, 2004 6:35 PM | Feedback (4)

New Article on UsernameToken Authentication with the WSE 2.0 Toolkit

posted @ Wednesday, July 14, 2004 11:19 AM | Feedback (1)

Back from the Honeymoon

posted @ Monday, July 05, 2004 4:04 PM | Feedback (4)

A Google of a Charitable Idea

posted @ Monday, June 21, 2004 1:29 PM | Feedback (5)

Managing Spam When On Vacation

posted @ Wednesday, June 16, 2004 10:41 AM | Feedback (11)

TechEd Wrapup

posted @ Wednesday, June 09, 2004 2:33 PM | Feedback (17)

How DOES a Computer Novice Upgrade?

posted @ Thursday, June 03, 2004 2:12 PM | Feedback (63)

Google AdSense and ASP.NET View State

posted @ Saturday, May 29, 2004 11:43 AM | Feedback (8)

WSE 2.0 RTMs

posted @ Monday, May 24, 2004 5:01 PM | Feedback (4)

Imagine Cup Nationals Results

posted @ Sunday, May 23, 2004 10:58 PM | Feedback (4)

A Disturbing Trend in RSS Syndication

posted @ Friday, May 21, 2004 10:26 AM | Feedback (7)

Imagine Cup 2004 Nationals

posted @ Friday, May 21, 2004 8:50 AM | Feedback (2)

Used Books on Amazon.com

posted @ Friday, May 14, 2004 12:24 PM | Feedback (6)

Obligatory "I'll Be There" Post, and Things to do in San Diego!

posted @ Thursday, May 13, 2004 12:48 PM | Feedback (10)

Reuters Provides RSS Feeds

posted @ Tuesday, May 11, 2004 2:02 PM | Feedback (2)

WebHost4Life Review : My First Year with WebHost4Life

posted @ Wednesday, May 05, 2004 5:32 PM | Feedback (62)

What Programs Do You have Running 24x7?

posted @ Friday, April 30, 2004 10:23 AM | Feedback (25)

Interested in Reviewing Articles?

posted @ Wednesday, April 21, 2004 4:53 PM | Feedback (23)

Follow-Up to Allowing Readers to Rate Blog Entries

posted @ Monday, April 19, 2004 12:27 PM | Feedback (16)

Enhancing Your .Text Blog - Allowing Readers to Rate Blog Entries

posted @ Thursday, April 15, 2004 4:12 PM | Feedback (16)

MVP Conference Wrapped Up Today

posted @ Wednesday, April 07, 2004 6:08 PM | Feedback (1)

I'll be Blogging from the MVP Conference Next Week

posted @ Saturday, April 03, 2004 1:32 PM | Feedback (9)

Small User Control Article Update

posted @ Thursday, April 01, 2004 5:55 PM | Feedback (3)

Come Hear Me Talk About Accessible Web Applications

posted @ Wednesday, March 31, 2004 6:35 PM | Feedback (4)

Don't Make Me Use IE

posted @ Wednesday, March 31, 2004 2:13 PM | Feedback (14)

Some More Interesting (To Me) Comment Statistics

posted @ Sunday, March 28, 2004 11:03 AM | Feedback (7)

Analyzing Your .Text Blog

posted @ Saturday, March 27, 2004 11:30 AM | Feedback (43)

Getting the Most Out of Visual Studio .NET

posted @ Friday, March 26, 2004 3:34 PM | Feedback (4)

Question: Do you use AndAlso and OrElse?

posted @ Tuesday, March 23, 2004 2:24 PM | Feedback (14)

There Will Be a Part 7 to the Extensive Examination of Data Structures Article Series

posted @ Tuesday, March 16, 2004 9:33 PM | Feedback (4)

Is ASP.NET Too Hard?

posted @ Tuesday, March 16, 2004 12:11 PM | Feedback (21)

Filtering Spam at the ISP Level

posted @ Tuesday, March 09, 2004 11:52 AM | Feedback (7)

Great Blog Content

posted @ Monday, March 08, 2004 12:08 AM | Feedback (13)

An Extensive Examination of Data Structures, Part 4 Available

posted @ Friday, February 20, 2004 2:31 PM | Feedback (11)

I'll be Giving a User Group Talk on Feb. 17th

posted @ Monday, February 16, 2004 12:14 PM | Feedback (3)

Case Study: Match.com

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Giving .Text a Calendar View

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How Do You Find Your Technical Information?

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They Say Immitation is the Sincerest Form of Flattery

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Are Today's RSS Aggregators Too Bloated?

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Giving SpamBayes a Try

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Where's My Humility?

posted @ Wednesday, January 21, 2004 10:22 AM | Feedback (14)

HTTP Compression

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Describe your journey into computers and the lessons learned along the way

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TheSpoke? Community Starter Kits? Heavens, where's .Text?

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Latest News...

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Managing an Open Source Project - More Challenging than I Thought!

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Computers Talking to Computers

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A Blog Feed ASP.NET Server Control

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A "Killer Blog" Directory

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Building a Challenge/Response Spam Blocking System

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A .NET Performance Challenge

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I'm still alive

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My Latest Article

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Improving the Blog Commenting Experience

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A Bit About Blogs

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Comment Stats

DayTotal% of Total
Sunday 2056.8%
Monday 42514.1%
Tuesday 51917.2%
Wednesday 55618.4%
Thursday 58019.2%
Friday 54718.1%
Saturday 1886.2%
Total 3020100.0%

Hour1Total% of Total
12:00 AM 782.6%
1:00 AM 812.7%
2:00 AM 682.3%
3:00 AM 822.7%
4:00 AM 692.3%
5:00 AM 1264.2%
6:00 AM 1193.9%
7:00 AM 1816.0%
8:00 AM 1926.4%
9:00 AM 1585.2%
10:00 AM 1886.2%
11:00 AM 1936.4%
12:00 PM 2016.7%
1:00 PM 1846.1%
2:00 PM 1695.6%
3:00 PM 1354.5%
4:00 PM 1153.8%
5:00 PM 1073.5%
6:00 PM 1013.3%
7:00 PM 1073.5%
8:00 PM 923.0%
9:00 PM 882.9%
10:00 PM 913.0%
11:00 PM 953.1%
Total 3020100.0%

Comments by Blog Entry Date/Time

Day Entry MadeAvg.Total
Sunday 5.00160
Monday 4.80384
Tuesday 4.04477
Wednesday 7.39680
Thursday 6.26676
Friday 5.07466
Saturday 4.78177
Total 5.403020

Hour1 Entry MadeAvg.Total
12:00 AM 5.2937
1:00 AM 1.002
5:00 AM 0.000
7:00 AM 3.8550
8:00 AM 3.72134
9:00 AM 6.06297
10:00 AM 5.63276
11:00 AM 4.22194
12:00 PM 6.16351
1:00 PM 3.09133
2:00 PM 4.89230
3:00 PM 7.67322
4:00 PM 4.00108
5:00 PM 6.07170
6:00 PM 4.64116
7:00 PM 8.95188
8:00 PM 8.63164
9:00 PM 5.00115
10:00 PM 6.31101
11:00 PM 4.5732
Total 5.403020

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