MGBlogA useless rant...My Regular Expression Editor "RegEx Editor 1.0" Released- March 21, 2005 Have you ever wanted to develop a complex regular expression and test it Is Visual Studio's Search and Replace dialog just not cutting it Well RegEx Editor might just be the answer. It is a simple concept, enter some text to test on, a regular expression and a replace string then use the IsMatch, Matches or the Replace button. RegEx Editor includes full support for Groups and Replace Strings. The Regular Expression's match results are displayed in a neat grid with single click sorting.Download..http://www.mgbrown.com/PermaLink55.aspx Fail Fast and Re-throwing Exceptions- March 10, 2005 Martin Fowler has published an article by Jim Shore that describes why software should "Fail Fast". I guess that, as an experienced programmer, I was subconsciously aware of this. However, it is always useful to have these things knocked to the front of your consciousness. Given the .Net bent of this site, I thought I would add a little bit on the subject of re-throwing exceptions. I have often come across code with catch blocks that look like this...http://www.mgbrown.com/PermaLink54.aspx Yahoo! Search Web Service API VB.Net Example- March 4, 2005 I have ported my C example for the Yahoo! Search API over to VB.Net. You can download it here.http://www.mgbrown.com/PermaLink53.aspx Yahoo! Search Web Service API C Example- March 2, 2005 Yahoo! Search has recently published a web service. Sadly, they did not implement it using SOAP and there is no .Net example in their download. Fear not though as I have done the dirty work for you and posted a C example on my Downloads page.I don't claim it is perfect, but it is not far off.http://www.mgbrown.com/PermaLink52.aspx EDS gets 4bn contract and I get scared- March 2, 2005 It was announced today that EDS has effectively won a 4bn project to upgrade the MoD's networks. These networks are some of the most complicated I have seen. Given EDS's tack record I wonder how long it will be before something truly disastrous happens. For those that have forgotten EDS were involved with: CSA Waiting times hitting 5 months. In a document given to a commons select committee by EDS, the system was described as "badly designed, badly developed, badly tested, badly...http://www.mgbrown.com/PermaLink51.aspx |