StackOverflow Trilogy Stickers Have Arrived

19Sep09

The League of Justice (i.e. the StackOverflow trilogy) stickers arrived today in the mail! YAY YAY YAY! Somehow or other, there were two StackOverflow stickers, along with a ServerFault and SuperUser one, in my envelope, when there should have been only three total, but this is awesome! I will post pictures of the stickers soon!

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Tags: .NET, C#, geek, internet, Programming, serverfault, stackoverflow, stackoverflow stickers, stackoverflow trilogy, superuser, Technology, web 2.0

Querying the StackOverflow Data Dump Online with StatOverflow

13Sep09

Every month, StackOverflow, the brilliant and completely open question and answer site for programmers, releases a Creative-Commons licensed dump of their database. You can download this huge dump yourself, but it’s typically a very large file, and then comes the hassle of getting the XML files into a database of your choice. Now, there is [...]

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Tags: creative commons, data, free data, meta, meta.stackoverflow.com, open data, open-source, Programming, Q&A, raw data, serverfault, SQL, stackoverflow, stackoverflow data dump, statoverflow, superuser

Ordering StackOverflow Trilogy Stickers!

10Sep09

On Tuesday, the awesome guys at Stack Overflow finally gave us addicted users a chance to receive some trilogy stickers! A few weeks ago, they received their order of 40,000 StackOverflow, ServerFault, SuperUser, and How-To Geek stickers, and now, if users send in a self-addressed stamped envelope, they will find some sitting in their mailbox [...]

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The Twitpocalypse Returns

02Aug09

 In my last post, I explained what truly went on in the Twitpocalypse, which dealt with tweet IDs passing the limits of the 32-bit signed integer (from -2,147,483,647 to +2,147,483,647), which is the most common datatype in use in computer applications today. Yet, whilst computer science has limits embedded into its structure, Twitter does not [...]

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Tags: 32-bit, 32-bit integer, 32-bit signed integer, 32-bit unsigned integer, 64-bit, 64-bit datatype, 64-bit integer, API, computer science, computer science datatype, computers, integer, microblogging, Programming, signed integer, signed integer limit, social media, social networking, social programming, Technology, twitpocalypse, twitpocalypse problem, twitter, Twitter API, twitter client, unsigned integer, unsigned integer limit

An Explanation of the Averted Twitpocalypse

16Jul09

Numerous friends have asked me about this whole Twitpocalypse thing, as they just don’t get it. “What’s this whole deal with signed integers?”, they ask. Well I’m here to clear that up, as I do programming, and in programming, if you don’t know such basics of computer science, you’re doomed.
What the predicters of the [...]

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Tags: Programming, tech, Technology, twitpocalypse, data types, 32bit, signed integer, integer, long, int64, int32, y2k, year2038, computer science, compsci, compsci bugs, programming bugs, stack overflow, overflow, error, computer error, programming error, compsci error

Implementing GUP in ASP.NET

11Jul09

You may or may not have heard of GUP, but it is used in numerous programming projects for updating purposes. GUP is an acronym for Generic Updater, and it was originally developed for NotePad++, one of my favorite text editors. As you can guess, by “generic”, the developers mean that you can use GUP in [...]

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Tags: asp.net, generic updater, GUP, php, Programming, update, updater

C#: Handling Cookies in a Series of HttpWebRequest and HttpWebResponse Sessions

28Jun09

I’ve always wanted to experiment with creating “sessions” on websites to mimic real users browsing and using a site, and I’ve finally gotten around to a project that involves this: my goal is to “wrap” an online database that is queried through a series of HTML forms, returns a map, and then allows you to [...]

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Tags: .NET, C#, CookieContainer, cookies, fiddler, hacking online interface, HTTP sessions, HttpWebRequest, HttpWebRequest headers, Programming, wrapper

Using .NET Reflector to Improve Code Efficiency

22Jun09

If you’re a .NET developer, admit it: you’ve at least once felt curious about how the underlying APIs behind the .NET Framework are coded, how certain functions are implemented, or whether one core function is more efficient that another. Well, this is where the trusty program named .NET Reflector comes in. As the title suggests, [...]

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Tags: .NET, .NET Reflector, C#, coding, decompiler, Programming, source code