Monthly Archives: December 2010

Compare .NET Objects

Ever need a generic ‘compare by value’ comparer, for instance for comparing collections in lists? var comparer = new CompareObjects(); Assert.IsTrue(comparer.Compare(actual, expected), comparer.DifferencesString); Simply done. Get Compare .NET Objects. All in one .cs file courtesy of kellermansoftware

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WMI Classes

If you’re struggling to find WMI Class definitions it might be because half the useful ones are listed under Win32 Classes.

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How make coffee badly

It has been said that cooking is an art, baking a science. Coffee is like baking  - making the perfect cup of coffee every time means doing it right, doing it the same, every time. Which is not to say … Continue reading

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Get started with a remote Git repository

Try these instructions to get started with a remote Git repository

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Grep for Windows is FindStr

Grrr. Where’s grep when you need it on a Windows box? No, you don’t need cygwin. You just need: And yes it does regular expressions. For example:

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The Christmas of Politics

The Christmas story is all about politics. Look: ‘Now after Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the king, behold, wise men from the east came to Jerusalem, saying, “Where is he who has been born … Continue reading

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Apple keyboard for Windows & the Command key for Control

If like me, you swap between Mac and PC you’ll have been irritated by everso slightly different keyboard layouts. So here’s my Apple Extended UK Keyboard Layout for Windows Installer. In addition – even if using a PC keyboard – a … Continue reading

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Bing affiliate program

It is an interesting fact that searching for bing affiliate program doesn’t bring up anything useful. The top hit when I did the search in bing itself was quite amusing though. In fact, you’re probably looking for this: search advertising with … Continue reading

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Google AdSense and Amazon Affiliates

It takes about 30 minutes to get started with google adsense. For the cost of some space on your website and some effort to get the code in you can for little effort earn … well, possibly peanuts per year … Continue reading

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WordPress blocks Affiliate Links? (Close but no cigar)

iframes, WordPress, affiliate networks One of the difficulties with wordpress is the security restrictions which blocks iframes. Thus, including this iframe: may result in a blank space thus: instead of : You could have run afoul of one of these … Continue reading

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