Category Archives: Coding
The Legend of FinkyPieheimer@zoobatz.com
Occasionally, you want a quick disposable email address for registering on suspicious websites, or in my case, for testing your own website’s registration system. While there are several options, I use Mailinator because you don’t need to set up anything … Continue reading
Getting to the (Reparse) Point: Notes
These are the links, notes and resources for my presentation Getting to the (Reparse) Point, which I’ll be giving at Microsoft Devs4Devs on Saturday, 20 August 2011 at 09:30. Code Manta, my open source .NET library with functionality for managing … Continue reading
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Announcing Manta
It’s taken much too long, but I’ve finally created an online project for Manta, which until recently didn’t even have an official name. Manta is an open source .NET library that currently features a variety of I/O- and web-related classes … Continue reading
C# Quines
Writing quines is a fun way to while away an afternoon, especially when trying to make them as short as possible. This is the result of my attempt at writing the shortest C# quine possible (155 characters, source file): class … Continue reading
Crouching Enumerator, Hidden Boxing
A few months ago, I was playing around with a simple C# permutation generator to build a word list, with each character position having its own list of characters to iterate through: List<T>.Enumerator enumerator = characterList.GetEnumerator(); while (condition) { if … Continue reading
The Joy of ASP.NET, Visual Studio and Proxies
Some time ago, the web project I was working on started refusing to open. Every time I tried to reload the ASP.NET project, Visual Studio (In this case, VS.NET 2003, but it may affect 2005 and 2008) gave a strange … Continue reading