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Windows 7 Old Right Click on Taskbar Windows

andrei — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 08:33:00 GMT

Do you sometimes need the old right click menu on a taskbar icon in Windows 7 ? The one with Restore, Move, Minimize, etc ? Here's what happens when you right click a taskbar item:

Should you miss the old menu, press shift+right-click:

If you have multiple windows open:

Linq Select Indices of Top Ordered Elements

andrei — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 13:13:00 GMT

I've recently got over the second Select variant, so now I can do the following to find the top 3 elements:

double[] output = new double[] { 5,6,7,8,9 };
var indices = output.Select( (v,i) => new { v = v, i = i}).OrderByDescending( p => p.v).Take(3).Select( p => p.i);

Result: 4,3,2. Anyone has a better solution ?

Free ASP.NET Profiler

andrei — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:49:00 GMT

At last a free and brilliant asp.net profiler, here. Instructions for starting it here. 10 minutes and I've already got a 100% increase in speed.

IKEA Prank

andrei — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 15:14:00 GMT

And btw check our latest prank in the IKEA store: http://culturavura.fourhooks.com/cat54435/art6451142070/. Pictures from http://cocalari.com and http://pitzipoanca.org.

CodeJam 2009

andrei — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 15:05:00 GMT

If you've participated be sure to check out the solutions written in some exotic programming languages like BrainFuck, SQL, Fortran and even PostScript ...

C# Initialize Dictionary

andrei — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 12:40:00 GMT

I've recently found the magic way to do it:

new Dictionary<string,string>() {
                   { "from_uid", "1" },
                   { "to_uid", "2"},
                   { "ocurred", "1000" }
               }

The language feature for this is not the ability to do the following:

KeyValuePair<string,string> pair = { "a", "b"}

and then have the list constructor enumerator feature that we already know: new List<int> () { 1,2,3 }, but rather a shortcut to Dictionary<string,string>.Add(string key, string value). More on this here.

Entity Framework Related Entities Queries

andrei — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 09:35:00 GMT

In Linq to SQL the following works by issuing a second query, in Linq to Entities it does not (and this sucks):

Shortcut sh = db.Shortcuts.First();
int count = sh.Redirects.Where( r => r.ocurred < dt).Count();

You have to do the following instead:

int count = db.Redirects.Where( r => r.shortid == sh.id && r.ocurred < dt).Count();

Some quick stats

andrei — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 07:59:00 GMT

... for http://oracolulmeu.ro/ for the last Monday: 1K visits and 42K pageviews (same day).

S4H

andrei — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 07:44:00 GMT

So now we have or own url-shortener service: http://s4h.ro/. Give it a try !

The Holy Grail of Webdesign

andrei — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 16:01:00 GMT

.... is almost live : http://psdbreaker.com.

Provider: SQL Network Interfaces, error: 26 - Error Locating Server/Instance Specified

andrei — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 00:36:00 GMT

I recently got the dreadful error when starting the website, even if the database connection string was more than correct and it worked in sql management studio. If you've tried anything else without success of getting your website started, and you use SQL Server-backed session persistance, be sure to also check for the sessionState connection string...

Nokia Friend View

andrei — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 12:04:00 GMT

Similar to Jaiku and Google Latitude: Friend View from Nokia. (thanks, Tase!)

John Carmack on iPhone Development

andrei — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 16:40:00 GMT

Wolfenstein 3D for iPhone is out, here are John Carmack's comments.

Digi Cafe Awards

andrei — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 09:25:00 GMT

Yey both Coolio and Urbee won prizes at last night's Digi Cafe Awards, Urbee even won the big prize!

Exceptions when DataBinding

andrei — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 13:47:00 GMT

A really annoying thing if you use the DataSourceID databinding is that you can't identify the control that throws the exception, the only thing that you get is an ID-less stacktrace and the debugger doesn't break at all ...