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Luc Pattyn8-May-09 5:18

Luc Pattyn

8-May-09 5:18

Avoiding unwanted divs (as in "articles needing approval") with the help of this FireFox add-in

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The quality and detail of your question reflects on the effectiveness of the help you are likely to get.
Show formatted code inside PRE tags, and give clear symptoms when describing a problem.

I'm back

Luc Pattyn15-Apr-09 10:35

Luc Pattyn

15-Apr-09 10:35

Tired of seeing and clicking lots of worthless "articles-needing-approval" on the CP home page (some multiple times, they don't disappear fast enough), I switched to an alternate non-gold account.

In the midst of a discussion in the Lounge Computafreak[^] (many thanks!) told me about AdBlock and Element Hider add-ins for FireFox.

So after six days of half-anonymity I'm back in business.

Jig | [Dance]

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Avoiding unwanted divs (as in "articles needing approval") with the help of this FireFox add-in

emoticons [modified]

Luc Pattyn18-Mar-09 6:43

Luc Pattyn

18-Mar-09 6:43

: baaaa! : ==> Sheep | [baah]

: badger : ==> Badger | [badger,badger,badger,badger...]

: beer : ==> Beer | [beer]

: bob : ==> Green Alien | [Alien]

: confused : ==> Confused | :confused:

: cool : ==> Cool | :cool:

: doh : ==> D'Oh! | :doh:

: eek : ==> Eek! | :eek:

: java : ==> Java | [Coffee]

: jig : ==> Jig | [Dance]

: laugh : ==> Laugh | :laugh:

: love : ==> Heart | [heart]

: mad : ==> Mad | :mad:

: omg : ==> OMG | :OMG:

: rolleyes : ==> Roll eyes | :rolleyes:

: rose : ==> Rose | [Rose]

: sigh : ==> Sigh | :sigh:

: suss : ==> Suspicious | :suss:

: thumbsup : ==> Thumbs Up | :thumbsup:

: thumbsdown : ==> Thumbs Down | :thumbsdown:

: vegemite : ==> Good Stuff | [The good stuff]

: wtf : ==> WTF | :WTF:

: zzz : ==> Sleepy | :zzz:

$Shucks | :-\$ Blush | :O

And here is a valid C# snippet with seven different emoticons on a single line:

bool b1=true, b2=true, b3=true;
int D=1, P=2, O=3, X=4;
for (int i=b1? 1 :( b2? 0 :((b3?0 :-D<2? 1 :-O))) ;P != 3 ;) { X = X| 1; }

for (int i=b1? 1 Frown | :(

b2? 0

b3?0

<2? 1

)))

!= 3

{ X =

1; }

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modified on Wednesday, March 18, 2009 8:58 PM

modified on Thursday, December 2, 2010 1:23 PM

Re: emoticons

Gandalf_TheWhite21-Oct-09 3:47

Gandalf_TheWhite

21-Oct-09 3:47

THANKS

for the sharing

Believe Yourself™ $Shucks | :-\$ ™

January 2009 sig

Luc Pattyn24-Jan-09 2:01

Luc Pattyn

24-Jan-09 2:01

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Good riddance W

to be added again to "USB flash memory stealer" once CP will have deleted my message

Luc Pattyn16-Jan-09 16:47

Luc Pattyn

16-Jan-09 16:47

[ADDED] This article has some potential, which I like; however: [/ADDED]

This needs some more work. Here is what I didn't like much:
1. formatting
- why is there an empty line after every line of code?
- where is the indentation? nested ifs and loops need to be indented to be readable.

2. some coding comments
- I don't like magic numbers, such as in chr(34) and 2147483648
you could either add a comment or better yet use self-commenting code as in """" and 2*1024*1024*1024
The resulting IL code will be the same or better
- it is very bad practice to catch an exception and then ignore it; if you really must, you need to
explain that in comment. In this case, I believe you should warn the user something went wrong.
- the way you construct a folder name based on multiple Now evaluations is bad practice; have a look
at Now.ToString("yyyy.MM.dd.HH.mm.ss")
- RemovableDrives should not be an array; use a List instead, you won't need the count
variable, and a simple For Each... would enumerate them more easily.

3. some functional comments
- why don't you copy USB stick larger than 2GB? you should explain that in the code and in
the article
- why don't you include the year in the folder name you build?

When you fix most of these and add some more meat to the article, I'll raise my vote from 2 to probably 4.

Cheers.

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I use ListBoxes for line-oriented text output (not TextBoxes), and PictureBoxes for pictures (not drawings).

Stupid voting system

Luc Pattyn29-Jul-08 4:21

Luc Pattyn

29-Jul-08 4:21

I quit. No more forums for me.

[edit] seems there still are ways to avoid the "good answer/bad answer" trap,
so we give it a last try... [/edit]

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Fixturized forever. Confused | :confused:

modified on Monday, December 29, 2008 9:17 PM

Re: Stupid voting system

Rajesh R Subramanian28-Dec-08 19:22

Rajesh R Subramanian

28-Dec-08 19:22

Hi Luc!

I just stopped by to say you a Hi. Smile | :)

It is a crappy thing, but it's life -^ Carlo Pallini

Luc Pattyn29-Dec-08 15:28

Luc Pattyn

29-Dec-08 15:28

Hi Rajesh, my best wishes to you.

Luc

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Love, happiness and fewer bugs for 2009!

Very sad

Luc Pattyn28-Jul-08 10:23

Luc Pattyn

28-Jul-08 10:23

This is a sad day.

As I enter my 5000th message, I will loose my "personality" status, and become a "fixture", which
seems to be a part of the furniture. Not sure I like it, but then the company is OK, the furniture
isn't too bad...

Smile | :)

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Voting for dummies? No thanks. Dead | X|

January 2008 tips [modified]

Luc Pattyn13-Jan-08 5:58

Luc Pattyn

13-Jan-08 5:58

- before you ask a question here, search CodeProject, then Google
- the quality and detail of your question reflects on the effectiveness of the help you are likely to get
- use PRE tags to preserve formatting when showing multi-line code snippets

Jig | [Dance]

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Happy 2008!

modified on Friday, July 11, 2008 7:39 PM

January 2008 tips [OT]

Cedric Moonen13-Jan-08 21:08

Cedric Moonen

13-Jan-08 21:08

Hi Luc !

I saw that we both come from Belgium Smile | :)

. Where are you from exactly ? Are you dutch or french speaking ?

I come from a little town close to Germany but I studied in Brussels (and stayed there for some years) and now I live in Hoegaarden with my girlfriend. So, I'm french speaking but I'm trying to improve my dutch at this time (I work in Leuven).

What about you (if not too indiscrete) ?

Cédric Moonen
Software developer

Charting control [v1.2]

Re: January 2008 tips [OT]

Luc Pattyn13-Jan-08 22:16

Luc Pattyn

13-Jan-08 22:16

Hi Cedric, I'm dutch speaking, and live and work near Antwerp.
There are several Belgian CPians if you look closely.

Regards,

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This month's tips:
- before you ask a question here, search CodeProject, then Google;
- the quality and detail of your question reflects on the effectiveness of the help you are likely to get;
- use PRE tags to preserve formatting when showing multi-line code snippets.

November 2007 tips

Luc Pattyn15-Nov-07 17:27

Luc Pattyn

15-Nov-07 17:27

Lc Pttn [Frm Gdlns] [M Rtcls]

ths mnths tps:
- b4 u sk 1 ? hr, srch CP thn Ggl
- th q & dtl f ur ? rflcts n th ffctvnss f th hlp u r lkl 2 gt
- uz PR tgz 2 prsrv frmtng whn shwng mlt-ln cd snptz

October 2007 tips

Luc Pattyn15-Nov-07 17:21

Luc Pattyn

15-Nov-07 17:21

- use PRE tags to preserve formatting when showing multi-line code snippets
- before you ask a question here, search CodeProject, then Google

September 2007 tips

Luc Pattyn4-Oct-07 2:24

Luc Pattyn

4-Oct-07 2:24

- make Visual display line numbers: Tools/Options/TextEditor/...
- show exceptions with ToString() to see all information
- before you ask a question here, search CodeProject, then Google

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