Cool Programming

Orphaned LFs

Wed, 28 Dec 2005 20:12:29 GMT

Today, I scoured the Web for an example of using Regex to patch orphaned linefeeds (LFs). I couldn't find anything. I took the time and wrote it myself. One line of beautiful code.

s = System.Text.RegularExpressions.Regex.Replace(s, "[^\r]\n", "\r\n");

Update: Oops, that didn't work. This works better.

s = System.Text.RegularExpressions.Regex.Replace(s, "([^\r])\n", "$1\r\n");

min-width in IE6

Thu, 22 Dec 2005 20:27:20 GMT

If you didn't already know, the min-width CSS attribute doesn't work in IE6. I searched for a solution that does. I came up with the following.

<div id="content" style="min-width:800px;">
      <script type="text/javascript">
            if (document.body.clientWidth < 800)
            {
              document.body.style.width = 800;
            }
      </script>

The content div wraps most all of the body. I left in the min-width for Firefox glee. I could have also run the javascript against the width of the content div.

Playing the Piano via SOAP Messages

Mon, 19 Dec 2005 05:35:56 GMT

Don Box and Chris Anderson demonstrate how to play the piano on a xBox game controller connected to a remote piano via SOAP.

http://scobleizer.wordpress.com/2005/12/18/see-don-box-house/