Hello.

I have not messed around with XAML for a while now and was a little rusty, so I decided to get “Programming: Windows Presentation Foundation” from Amazon [UK/US], it is pretty neat so far, its examples are in XAML and C# and I am just on the Panels section and it is very well written. The first chapter is pretty much a very quick overview of XAML and what in can do for you, it is kind of lucky that I had a basic understanding because it flys by and would be confusing for beginners.

I have been trying to play around with the Managed C# Library for Bluetooth that I mentioned on my site a while back.Can’t say I can really make head nor tail of it. To be honest though, it is not the library that is at fault. It is me, I just thought I could have my phone connect to my machine and read the Images that I send from it off the phone.

I have noticed something wierd, since the start of this month I have recieved nearly all the hits on my site that I did last month; we are only 8 days into the month so something has happened.I noticed Google is sending a lot my way. I am not too sure why I get preference over anyone else because MSN and Yahoo have only sent me about to combined.Anyway here are my stats.

I have just jumped on to the Sphere Beta Program. I think it is okay but here are some basic feedback points:I like the related Blogs more than I like the Blog post results. That is when I search for “AJAX” the posts that it brings back don’t really interest me, but the blogs about AJAX do. I am not too sure that I can find what I want with a search [in blog posts at least] off just a couple of keywords.

I have just jumped on to the Sphere Beta Program. I think it is okay but here are some basic feedback points:I like the related Blogs more than I like the Blog post results. That is when I search for “AJAX” the posts that it brings back don’t really interest me, but the blogs about AJAX do. I am not too sure that I can find what I want with a search [in blog posts at least] off just a couple of keywords.

One of the queries that came to my site the other day was: c# expando. Now you could take this to mean one of several things: Creating JavaScript Expando Objects in C# Creating C# Expando classes for use in C# Something Else If it is something else, email me: paul.kinlan@gmail.com and I will see if I can shed any light. If however it is choice 1, I know how to do this, but it can be quite a big subject.

Another search that I have noticed that has been passed to my site was “perl c# comparison”, I would assume that the person that asked this was trying to compare the languages and not how c# and perl perform comparisons.My take on this would be that I don’t really think that the two are even slightly similar in sytanx, semantics or even intended use. The only thing that I have found in common is the use of the “;” to signify the end of the line.

One of the searches that came in was: oops c#. I would love to know how to reply to that one, or what the Google user meant by that. What did oops mean? Object Orientated Prototyping System? Object-Oriented Programming System General C# gotcha’s? I know this is a long shot, but if you were the person who asked about this could you email me: paul.kinlan@gmail.com, so that I know what it was about.

I would love to know why services like Simpy and Shadows (to some extent) and del.icio.us all focus on a users tags and not the global perspective. It seems that when I click on a tag on the front page of each of these services that is related to a web page, it lists all the other tagged pages of the same type that the user has posted and not the global point of view.

For all the people (4) who are using AJAX Tag (http://www.kinlan.co.uk/AjaxExperiments/AjaxTag) and Ajax Tag 2 (http://www.kinlan.co.uk/AjaxExperiments/AjaxTag), who have noticed that the Wikipedia Articles are not being found it was due to a problem on Yahoo’s end. I must commend the people at developer.yahoo.net, Toby Elliot especially for getting this rectified. I must also say, out of all the Online Web 2.0 API’s that I have used Yahoo seem to be the most helpful, you report a problem and they are very honest and quick to fix any issues.

One of the queries that someone entered in to Google and found my site was: c# test a string to see if it is a number: I suppose there are a couple of ways that this can be done.If you know the datatype that you want to convert it to [i.e you know the numeric range] you can use the Convert class. Convert.ToInt16 (short), Convert.ToInt32 (int), Convert.ToFloat (floats). etc etcYou could also use a regex along the lines of:/1+$/

I was looking through my logs and I have seen that google is sending me more and more c# searches. I am thinking that when people who come to this blog see it, they are probably impressed that there is not too much about c# on it. So from this day forth I will try and answer at least one google search about c#

Google has added a new feature (as well as updated their T’s & C’s). I noticed the terms mentioned Feeds and Referrals, however I have not seen anything about the Feed Advertising, but I have added a referal link on my blog.If you feel like you could benefit from joining adsense then try joining.

DeliTag works for Del.icio.us only in Firefox now. Need to get Proxy Scripts for SIMPY and SHADOWS and we are made.

I have updated the DeliTag to also upload tags to SIMPY and Shadows. Simpy is great Shadows won’t let me get past the CAPTCHA stage. Come on guys sort it out, I want to use your service.Update: DeliTag can post to Shadows, but I couldn’t create an account due to a problem with CAPTCHA. I should have made that clearer in the post.Update 2: I have created a shadows account. I still didn’t get past the CAPTCHA Verifcation, but I got a confirmation email.

It turns out I made a little mistake. The regex should be more like 1+$. The “0” problem might be sorted like this ^[A-Fa-f1-9][A-Fa-f0-9]*$. A-Fa-f0-9 [return]

I was looking at the cover of the new Yellow Pages (UK) this Morning that arrived at my house the other day. I was just staring at it and I saw the wierdest thing. A TagCloud, well what could be described as a losse Tag Cloud, obviously I have no way of knowing if the size of the words on the packaging indicate the popularity of any particular subject. Suffice to say, Bouncy Castles are BIG!

Eric Gunnerson Ask a Question about a simple question about Regular Expressions: Welcome to week #2 of our class. This is a simple one: S2 - Verify a string is a hex number Given a string, verify that it contains only the digits 0-9 and the letters a through f (either in uppercase or lowercase). Answer/discussion on Friday… [[posterous-content:uBElaDAHtglzaibhbbqx]] [Via MSDN Blogs]My answer for this would have to be1*$ However I know that it means that you can start a number with a 0 which may or may not be what he wants.

After my experience with AJAX Tag 2 [still not finished] and the quick turn around of DeliTag I have decided to alter the purpose of AJAX Tag. AJAXTag was designed to help me give the user what related information they might want to see. Well, I have had a change of mind. I still might do that, and provide an OPML file of all the results that I collate, but I think it would also be good to let the readers of my blog explore for themselves.

Mind Valley said BlinkList was back up. No it isn’t. I hope everything is okay.