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- 2009.10.01
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- 2009.10.01
WSLoginModuleImpl

- 2009.09.29
KeyRingFileException.missingSSLKeyRingData

- 2009.09.28
Connecting to P8 Content Engine : Good Times

- 2009.09.16
Amazon MP3 downloader on Ubuntu 9.06, 64 bit

- 2009.08.19
Image Sequencing with Shell Scripting

- 2009.07.29
War ein Fenster Offen ?

- 2009.07.21
WPF (MVVM): Default focus to text box in user control

- 2009.07.21
French Plug Wiring

- 2009.05.28
Wpf: Binding to parent property (RelativeSource Ancestor DataContext)

- 2009.05.26
Derived Decorator: Auto-set Properties (C#)

- 2009.05.20
Generic Singly Linked List in C#: First Pass

- 2009.05.14
WPF Mvvm: Simple error validation on button click

- 2009.05.03
IoC with StructureMap: Loading Assemblies

- 2009.04.27
Updating WPF UI on an Eventhandler: BitmapImage, DependencyObject, and Thread Ownership

- 2009.04.15
Cruise Control.NET, Apache, Windows

- 2009.03.31
Log4net in Windows Service: AssemblyInfo.cs

- 2009.03.19
Generic functions in C# (Linq, IEnumerable)

- 2009.03.17
Subway Address 0004

- 2009.03.12
Using Reflection in C# to get Property Values

- 2009.02.16
Hello World in Spring from scratch on Linux

- 2009.01.22
[mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2 @ 0x9a31330] moov atom not found

- 2009.01.09
Syncing music and video on a G3 iPhone with ubuntu linux and gtkpod

- 2008.12.04
Generic XML Serialization

- 2008.12.03
The Garden State

- 2008.12.01
Separating errors from output: Dos and Linux

- 2008.11.25
nerves in patterns on a screen

- 2008.11.18
OpenXml: Excel vs Word - strings

- 2008.11.14
Saving and Loading objects: Serialization using System.Xml.Serialization

- 2008.11.13
Linux upgrade: insufficient space on /boot

- 2008.11.10
Passing command line arguments to a Form (C#)

- 2008.11.07
Largest prime factor in C# (Sieve of Eratosthenes)

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McCarren Park, Brooklyn

- 2008.11.04
Office 2007 Open XML global string replace (C#)

- 2008.11.04
This is how I remember it

- 2008.11.03
mount status: { DRDY ERR }, 0000: read verification failed on XFS

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Lucky day

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Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Takedowns

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A Jet over Brittany

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The Web application at http://localhost could not be found. Verify that you have typed the URL correctly.

- 2008.09.28
ActiveX OCX and Windows.Forms Interop: Properties and Events

- 2008.09.16
Flash player download mp3

- 2008.09.16
T-SQL: Rotate Columns into Rows, Take 2

- 2008.09.15
T-SQL: Rotate Columns into Rows, Take 1

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Delegates: Example in C#

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Kerbellec, St. Aignan, France

- 2008.09.08
Linux VPNC not working

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C# 3.0: Auto properties and Object Initializer : Example

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Morning - St. Aignan, France

- 2008.08.29
Programatically upload file to SharePoint list

- 2008.08.28
Divide and Conquer

- 2008.07.22
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- 2008.06.19
Transfering Files to Windows Mobile without ActiveSync

- 2008.05.15
Setting mp4 metadata programatically: Atomic Parsley

- 2008.04.26
Optimized Portable Church

- 2008.04.10
Playing audio cds on Linux from the command line with mplayer

- 2008.03.25
A simple, easy, and free javascript compiler

- 2008.02.22
A Tree in Central Park

- 2008.02.20
Could not determine the process id of the java process

- 2008.02.05
The Gallery of Useless Errors

- 2008.02.04
Regular Expressions and Square Brackets

- 2007.12.20
Inclusive vs. Exclusive: Operator overloading the word "or"

- 2007.12.20
Currency

- 2007.12.12
Security

- 2007.12.08
The New Bluescreen of Death

- 2007.12.05
Time to Water the Plants

- 2007.11.26
Gas in England in Dollars

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Sign of the Times.

- 2007.11.11
MTA Metrocard Swipe Database

- 2007.11.04
3.7 Billion Years of Progress

- 2007.10.31
A Company Meeting

- 2007.10.30
Painting

- 2007.10.23
Gimp 2.4:Cut and Paste Image Size

- 2007.10.19
Ubuntu Gutsy Shipped with Known Breaking Bug.

- 2007.10.16
The Dollar

- 2007.10.16
System.String.IsNullOrEmpty()

- 2007.10.15
Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York

- 2007.10.12
Keyless ssh / ssh-keygen: setup and gotchas

- 2007.10.10
How To Recover Deleted Files on Linux

- 2007.10.02
Climate Change: Arctic Melt

- 2007.10.01
No Sound on Thinkpad Running Ubuntu Linux

- 2007.09.30
South of What?

- 2007.09.30
Population

- 2007.09.21
Planes, Trains, and Automobiles

- 2007.09.18
How To Handle with Spaces in File Names in Linux Shell Scripts

- 2007.09.13
The New Ireland

- 2007.09.04
Medieval Style Door Hanging

- 2007.09.01
How To: Support Old Links and Redirect to New ASP.NET Pages

- 2007.08.28
Why Doesn't My Shared Add-In for Office Show Up?

- 2007.08.27
St. Aignan, France

- 2007.08.24
Ajax in Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2: The UpdatePanel

- 2007.08.23
How To Create a Console/Window Hybrid Application in C#

- 2007.08.20
How To Find Duplicate Files (Even if they have different names!). And some History.

- 2007.08.20
How (not) To Update a Label/Div from a Drop Down Menu

- 2007.08.20
How To Convert a Batch of OGGS to MP3s with Linux

- 2007.08.17
How To Rip the Sound from an FLV (Youtube) to MP3 Using Ubuntu Linux

How To Find Duplicate Files (Even if they have different names!). And some History.

One of the great things about Unix/Linux is the "tools" philosophy: rather than building large applications to do everything, Unix/Linux is built on the idea of creating small tools for specific tasks that can work together to accomplish more complicated tasks.  There's an info page buried in Linux with some great history on this philosophy.  This approach to application development still holds today.

"The Unix developers at Bell Labs were all professional programmers and trained computer scientists. They had found that while a one-size-fits-all program might appeal to a user because there's only one program to use, in practice such programs are
a. difficult to write,
b. difficult to maintain and debug, and
c. difficult to extend to meet new situations.
 Instead, they felt that programs should be specialized tools. In short, each program "should do one thing well." No more and no less. Such programs are simpler to design, write, and get right--they only do one thing."
Let's look at an example.  I'm sure people pay good money for GUI applications that do this, but it's all built into Linux for free.

Here is a way to generate a list of duplicate files with just three commands: find, md5sum, and uniq -- even if the files are in completely different locations with completely different names.
This is a perfect way to find those pesky duplicate files (i.e. mp3s) strewn about your hard drive, all with different names. ... Who knew bunzip2 and bzcat where the same thing?
jknight@shadowbox:/bin$ find /bin -type f -exec md5sum "{}" \; | uniq -D -w 32
bdf6bd945da1c84c86916ac3631143f3  /bin/bunzip2
bdf6bd945da1c84c86916ac3631143f3  /bin/bzcat
dfaba3a92070a1881dd8ec64a26069a4  /bin/bzcmp
dfaba3a92070a1881dd8ec64a26069a4  /bin/bzdiff
2b11565d85da178b3a1942a22d20c624  /bin/bzfgrep
2b11565d85da178b3a1942a22d20c624  /bin/bzgrep
e243255b6cf3b9403df53cb9cd6176e1  /bin/bzless
e243255b6cf3b9403df53cb9cd6176e1  /bin/bzmore
ce9dfb81f78f7d042b25565c0115b8e4  /bin/zcmp
ce9dfb81f78f7d042b25565c0115b8e4  /bin/zdiff
05c8810af8c45fc25ce1117f141d9203  /bin/zegrep
05c8810af8c45fc25ce1117f141d9203  /bin/zfgrep
jknight@shadowbox:/bin$ 

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