Let’s try something new, let’s try Pinax! That’s one of the very few rather mature CMS’s around that have been developed completely in Python, with the Django framework as its basis. This article talks the non-Pythoneer through the installation process step by step. It only takes a few minutes! — read article
October 5, 2009 Leave a Comment
September 21, 2009 149 Comments
All Syntax Highlighter 2.0 brushes collected, described and downloadable
Complete overview of all known available brushes for Alex Gorbatchev’s SyntaxHighlighter (aka Google’s Code Highlighter), including syntaxes / brushes found anywhere on the internet, added here for ease of use and direct downloading of each and every brush. Includes brushes-wishlist and is regularly updated — read article
September 19, 2009 Leave a Comment
Understanding CDATA in XML
CDATA sections in XML are often misunderstood. Programmers get the wrong advice, or they hear that strings should go in CDATA sections because they contain Unicode or non-ASCII characters. All nonsense, CDATA is only a convenience in writing and everything written in CDATA can be written without CDATA — read article
September 17, 2009 7 Comments
Comparison Chart of Online Regular Expression Testers, overviews and reviews
Online regular expression testers, information, programs and tools can help a great deal in finding the right regex for a given task. Unfortunately it can be daunting to find the right one. How do you know whether a free online regexp tool is javascript, or what server side language or flavor was used? Perl-style regexes, or old-school sed/awk? This article summarizes all known online regex tools and their abilities and is updated regularly — read article
August 27, 2009 1 Comment
Overview of type suffixes in C# and VB.Net
Remembering type suffixes if your daily job is working with VB.NET or C#.NET is not easy. D can stand for Decimal in VB and for Double in C#. A C is not for Currency but for Char and M is not Million but Decimal in C#. Still with me? An overview of all these unintuitive type suffixes along with prefixes and plain text modifiers is provided here for convenience. In addition, an explanation of the secrets, lies and bugs these suffixes can introduce — read article
August 21, 2009 16 Comments
Tip: Force UTF8 or other encoding for XmlWriter with StringBuilder
When you use an XmlWriter or XmlTextWriter and the output target is StringBuilder or StringWriter then it is not possible to set the encoding to anything else then UTF-16. This tip explains why this is designed this way by Microsoft and offers you a way around this all-too restrictive behavior of the XmlWriter, to allow — read article
