Under My Hat

All Syntax Highlighter 2.0 brushes collected, described and downloadable

Posted on 21 September 2009 | 59 responses

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

Tip: How to open, unpack or extract *.xpi files

Posted on 19 September 2009 | No responses

XPI (zippy), aka XPInstall files are basically nothing more then zip files. This article shows you how to unzip them by renaming — read article

Understanding CDATA in XML

Posted on 19 September 2009 | No responses

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

Comparison Chart of Online Regular Expression Testers, overviews and reviews

Posted on 17 September 2009 | 7 responses

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

Storing / Disruption of service at XS4ALL Provider, Sunday Sept 6 2009

Posted on 6 September 2009 | 3 responses

(en|nl) bilingual / tweetalige post
(en) A country-wide ADSL disruption of service since 12:58 September 6, 2009, took many people in The Netherlands offline. After about 24 hours, all seems good again.
(nl) Een landelijke storing van KPN / XS4ALL sinds 12:58 uur op 6 september 2009. XS4All geeft nauwelijks en erg laat informatie. Via Twitter en nieuwsberichten komen we langzaam achter de feiten. Na 24 uur is het sein brand meester gegeven — read article

Overview of type suffixes in C# and VB.Net

Posted on 27 August 2009 | No responses

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

Tip: Force UTF8 or other encoding for XmlWriter with StringBuilder

Posted on 21 August 2009 | 9 responses

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

Tip: regenerate aspx.designer.cs files when corrupted

Posted on 28 July 2009 | 6 responses

When your designer.cs or designer.vb file gets corrupted, you can regenerate its contents by following the three simple instructions in this tip, illustrated with screenshots — read article

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