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I've been worrying about whether I need to check for null when invoking a foreach loop on a collection that might be empty. The answer i...

Ben Shine's Recent Work

I just configured git to use FileMerge for diffs. FileMerge is a pretty graphical diff tool. I couldn't find quite the right invocation ...

Last week I finally started using an AIR application, TweetDeck, because my brother said it was cool. Now I'm reading about Flex and AIR...

I learned an important new unix command today: lsof . The name seems to stand for " l i s t o pen f iles ." The purpose of the com...

When I reply to an email in Outlook 2003, the display of the original email in my inbox updates with the helpful annotation, "You repli...

Two years ago, I started reading Martin Fowler's book, Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture , on the recommendation of Adam W...

If you don't care about running Rails 2.2, you can safely ignore this post. If you ran into the same problem I did, this post will help ...

One, I wrote code with GOTOs . I'm setting up a highly constrained dev environment for my current contract. It has to be Windows XP, and...

Aptana Studio is a sweet little IDE, but it gets even sweeter now that they've added in Jaxer and Cloud . My development life has been...