There might be an easier way to do this but I couldn't find it and it took me forever to work this out so I hope that it helps someone else as well. Using the excellent and free Paint.Net image editing software I wanted to erase an area but I wanted to do it with the paint bucket so that it would would...
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I just took the Myers Briggs Type Indicator assessment and discovered that I'm an ENTJ. This is how my score pairs panned out: E=18 & I=3 S=7 & N=15 T=28 & F=0 J=24 & P=5 Without reading any further about what an ENTJ personality type is I can only assume that we do not have a problem...
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The Factorial Function is a classic interview question. It opens the doors to a discussion about stack overflow (if done recursively) and integer overflow (if the param is too large) as well as discussions around how to handle and catch errors. Here is one way to do it using recursion: static Int64 Factorial...
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I've just been doing some Google AdSense analysis for some web sites that have moderate traffic. The owner said that I can publish this bit of information from her site. She's interested to hear if other AdSense publishers have had similar results. The objective was to find out which day of the week...
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I've started looking at the Parallel.For and Parallel.ForEach methods from .Net 4's Task Parallel Library. Before I use something as complex and potentially dangerous as this I like to test it out to make sure I'm going to get that performance boost before going down that path. Here's the console app...
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I have an MSSQL 2008 R2 installation and was trying to attach a DB from a non-R2 installation using SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) and I was getting the following error: CREATE FILE encountered operating system error 5(Access is denied.) while attempting to open or create the physical file 'C:\Program...
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I just finished reading Rocket Surgery Made Easy by Steve Krug and recommend you read it. It's sub-titled The Do-It-Yourself Guide to Finding and Fixing Usability Problems. It's a great read. He writes well, has appropriate sarcasm and wit at the right places, and delivers everything you need to know...
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Great blog post by Google Webmaster Central Blog about building quality links to your site. This paragraph sums up why you shouldn't engage in buying links or link exchange programs: It's important to clarify that any legitimate link building strategy is a long-term effort. There are those who advocate...
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I'm doing some work with the ASP.NET Request object and have just discovered that I can get all of the "params" from one property on the Request object. If I'm not already in a context where the Request object is a member of that context (such as an MVC Controller or a codebehind page) then...
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I noticed this morning that Google has take a leaf from the Bing book and added images as a background to their home page. I think this is great as the images are always fascinating and high quality. However, the one thing that irks me with both Google and Bing home page images is that there doesn't...
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