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Database daily build reporting with XSLT

Last Updated: 4 Dec 2006 Page Views: 17,117 Rating: 4.33/5 Votes: 2 Popularity: 1.30 Bookmark Count: 25

A demonstration of using XSLT to create SQL error reports in a daily build process.

C#

Generics

Reusable dynamic programming with C# generics

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2006 Page Views: 33,927 Rating: 4.63/5 Votes: 17 Popularity: 5.69 Bookmark Count: 78

Dynamic programming is a mathematical optimization technique. Generics are used to provide a reusable algorithm.

XML

XML/XSLT

TransformXML - a command line utility to apply XSL transforms

Last Updated: 27 Nov 2006 Page Views: 19,745 Rating: 3.50/5 Votes: 3 Popularity: 1.67 Bookmark Count: 17

A command line utility wrapping the XslCompiledTransform class.

Algorithms & Recipes

Regular Expressions

RegexToXml regular expression to XML converter

Last Updated: 13 Oct 2006 Page Views: 23,604 Rating: 4.80/5 Votes: 5 Popularity: 3.36 Bookmark Count: 29

RegexToXml is a command line utility which applies a regular expression to input text and returns the results as an XML document.

Internet / Network

SendSmtp - a command line utility to send e-mails via SMTP

Last Updated: 29 Nov 2006 Page Views: 27,529 Rating: 4.67/5 Votes: 5 Popularity: 3.26 Bookmark Count: 28

A command line utility which sends e-mails using the SmtpClient class.

String handling

Strings

CommandLineHelper class to launch console applications and capture their output

Last Updated: 23 Oct 2006 Page Views: 28,150 Rating: 4.34/5 Votes: 10 Popularity: 4.34 Bookmark Count: 53

Runs a console application and returns its output as a string. Useful for writing object-oriented wrappers around command line utilities, such as Subversion's svn utility.

Andrew Tweddle

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Andrew Tweddle started his career as an Operations Researcher, but made the switch to programming in 1997. His current programming passions are Powershell and WPF.

He currently works for one of the "big 4" banks in South Africa as a software team lead.

Before that he spent 7 years at SQR Software in Pietermaritzburg, where he was responsible for the resource planning and budgeting module in CanePro, their flagship product for the sugar industry.

He enjoys writing utilities to streamline the software development and deployment process. He particularly loves to design generic, reusable software architectures... but experience has also taught him to be very wary of these.

Andrew is a board game geek (see www.boardgamegeek.com) with a collection of over 170 games! He also enjoys digital photography, camping and solving puzzles.

His Myers-Briggs personality profile is INTJ.

He lives with his wife, Claire, and his 2 dogs in Johannesburg, South Africa.

Occupation:	Team Leader
Company:	First National Bank
Location:	South Africa