http://nicholasclarke.co.uk Fri, 20 Jun 2008 15:56:10 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I use Google Reader as my main RSS client. For me it has answered all of my problems I had with using a desktop client + it allows me to share posts that I think are interesting without having to write a post myself by just clicking a button. It ... http://nicholasclarke.co.uk/blog/2008/02/19/google-reader-and-embedded-videos/ This is a great advert and very true if you develop on the fly (pardon the punt) or conform to Agile development e.g. Scrum. [youtube UZq4sZz56qM] Defiantly something I can relate to.ShareThis http://nicholasclarke.co.uk/blog/2008/02/18/if-programmers-were-to-make-a-plane/ Today I had to update a regular expression that I have not touched in two years! On first look I got the old hhmm where do I start :) (?<Protocol>\w+):\/\/(?<Subdomain>\w+)\.(?<Domain>\w+)\.(?<tlDomain>[\w.]+)/(?<File>.*) This matches: http://subdomain.url.com/Default.aspx And breaks it into: Protocol: http Subdomain: subdomain Domain: url tlDomain: com File: Default.aspx But the problem starts when you have a - (dash) in the subdomain: http://a-subdomain.url.com/Default.aspx This ... http://nicholasclarke.co.uk/blog/2008/02/17/fastsharp-rapid-c-scripting/ Yesterday I was trying to think of a way to call a web page via a SQL Agent job and could not find a way to do it. I could setup a scheduled job on the web server itself and use Windows scheduler to request the page on a set date ... http://nicholasclarke.co.uk/blog/2008/01/16/web-request-from-sql-server-via-c/ At work we just had the cleaning people in to break, sorry I mean clean our computers and this spawned into an interesting conversation into how effective it was. Dave aka Mr Google then went off and found an online calculator to work out how many germs we all had! I gave ... http://nicholasclarke.co.uk/blog/2008/01/15/324-toilet-seats/ Yesterday I installed the Stumbleupon Firefox toolbar as I ran out of unread blog posts and wanted something random to read. On my first click on the Show next page button I was taken to a great interpretation of the software project life cycle :) I'm sure every developer can relate ... http://nicholasclarke.co.uk/blog/2008/01/11/the-truth-behind-the-software-project-life-cycle/ Tonight I logged into WordPress in order to clean up my spam comments and I noticed a new feature. I know that there was an unexpected release to fix a security issue, so I guess some new code was included when I upgraded :) When you select the Akismet Spam tab ... http://nicholasclarke.co.uk/blog/2008/01/09/undisclosed-wordpress-feature/ While installing Visual Studio 2008 on my PC I started to get the not so friendly Windows low disk space pop-up. This was odd as I thought I had lot of spare space! So I opened up Windows Explorer to see what I could find only to find nothing. ... http://nicholasclarke.co.uk/blog/2007/12/07/disk-space-is-a-premium/ It seems that you can wait ages for something to finally be released by Microsoft. For example I started .Net with Visual Studio 2005 beta only to wish for the RTM version and then SP1. SP1 came along only for me to wish that I had 2008. All of this ... http://nicholasclarke.co.uk/blog/2007/12/06/microsoft-running-at-full-steam/ Looking for a unique way to sell a book!? Well this definitely caught my eye. The book is called "Managing Humans" and is written by the same author who wrote "The Nerds Handbook". The promotional site has got a really nice touch that you have to click through a series of ... http://nicholasclarke.co.uk/blog/2007/11/16/managing-humans/