Using xml files with xml column in linq to sql

submitted by jdelator 1 month, 5 days ago

wasstock.com — How to insert xml files into an xml column using linq to sql read more...

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What's Wrong With Turkey?

submitted by jdelator 8 months, 18 days ago

codinghorror.com — Software internationalization is difficult under the best of circumstances, but it always amazed me how often one particular country came up in discussions of internationalization problems: Turkey. Jeff's comment should had been in the article but it wasn't It's convenient because: 1) Turkey is similar enough to other Latin alphabets that it's not a giant engineering nightmare to get it to work (see: Arabic or Hebrew). 2) The Turkish-I problem ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkish_dotted_and_dotless_I ) causes failures in naive string comparisons, whereas other Latin alphabets don't. 3) The Turkey Test gets you 90% of the way to the goal of internationalizing most apps.* We know French and Spanish are going to work. Why not test with the most difficult (but realistically difficult) locale first? * The other 10% is excruciatingly difficult -- again, think of Arabic (bi-directional, shaped letters) or Hebrew (right-to-left). read more...

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A Question of Programming Ethics

published 8 months, 22 days ago, submitted by jdelator 8 months, 22 days ago

codinghorror.com — I generally try to give people the benefit of the doubt, but it's difficult to imagine any scenario where this isn't a completely malicious violation of people's trust. read more...

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IE8 Review

submitted by jdelator 8 months, 26 days ago

getahead.org — It has a nice undocumentated feature of IE8. read more...

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Douchebaggery

published 9 months, 4 days ago, submitted by jdelator 9 months, 4 days ago

codinghorror.com — To imply that programmers using Windows "don't care enough about their tools to get the best"? I have a pretty thick skin based on the psychic scars of the thousands of petty internet religious wars I've participated in, and this one even ruffles my feathers a little. I read more...

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There Ain't No Such Thing as the Fastest Code

submitted by jdelator 9 months, 11 days ago

codinghorror.com — He then posted his program as a challenge for readers of PC Techniques-- can this optimized assembly word count program, from an acclaimed industry expert on assembly optimization, be made even faster? Well, I think you can guess what happened next. read more...

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