December 2007 Entries

Fried Bologna Sandwich

I was reminded the other day about something I used to eat when I was growing up during a conversation with a friend. It has been years, heck, a decade and then some since the last time I had a fried bologna sandwich. Growing up I considered it a delicacy. The taste and satisfaction it brought was only equaled to that of a Hot Fudge Sundae (with no nuts). How I forgot about this beloved treasure I have no idea. Maybe age and the pursuit of other foods made me forget. It is time to get back to...

posted @ Saturday, December 15, 2007 9:46 AM | Feedback (7)

How To Load an Embedded Resource From A DLL

When developing class libraries in .Net there are times we utilize XML files to store static information or icons and bitmaps associated with components in our class libraries. During the build process we have several build actions to choose from that allow us to handle different scenarios. For icons used in components or static XML files it makes a lot of sense to package those files into the DLL so they can go along for the ride. We call this an embedded resource. For those that are curious the .Net framework has a lot of embedded resources. For example have...

posted @ Friday, December 14, 2007 10:49 AM | Feedback (12)

Announcing Home Highlighter Beta by Quicken Loans

One of the toughest things about owning a home is selling it. Home owners are tasked with a mountain of things when preparing to sale their home. Recently we launched a beta product to assist home owners with one of those task. The product is called Home Highlighter and provides home owners the ability to build their feature sheets right from the web site complete with multiple templates and mortgage pricing information. It is has become more main stream for home owners to create feature sheets that allow buyers to drive up to their home and grab detailed information. Feature...

posted @ Tuesday, December 11, 2007 8:43 AM | Feedback (2)

Using Regular Expressions in C# vs PHP

Recently at work I made a call out to all of the engineers to send me code they thought should be placed in the common library for .Net development. In one of the responses I got an email from a PHP developer that shared a regular expression to check the format of money. He stated he didn't know how often we use them (referring to regular expressions) in C# but he thought he'd pass it along anyway. That got me to thinking. Do I use regular expressions as much in C# as I did in PHP? For those that...

posted @ Wednesday, December 05, 2007 9:20 AM | Feedback (4)