NPM, Vagrant Weirdness

I have been using Vagrant to configure a nodejs/redis development server. When I setup my application and ran a npm install on the guest machine based on a local package.json file, I’d get weird installation errors such as npm not being able to find node module package.json files. Another error I’d get intermittently is just […]

VMWare IIS7 Woes

I spent the last hour trying to setup an IIS7 website running from a VMware Fusion shared folder. Specs: VMware Fusion 3.1.2 MacBook Pro OSX 10.6 Host Win7 Guest IIS 7.0 something I want to edit the website from OSX, so I added the directory as a shared folder. I tried various things to get […]

SQL Server Stem Words

We needed to find related words using the SQL Server FORMSOF function. Although it is used mainly to find related words in bodies of text, we wanted to use it to find related words in a table of just words. Initial approaches focused on finding a SQL Function or table that contained the database of […]

Regex Challenge

A friend asked for a regex that matches a paragraph that contains only upper-case text inside a nested hierarchy of tags. Some examples: Matches: Fail: I came up with the following expression: It doesn’t handle tags interspersed with text or nested paragraph tags. Here’s a sample on Rubular.

Adding comments to spreadsheets with POI

I was just recently working on a project using NPOI, the .NET equivalent of POI, which is a great library for writing Microsoft Office documents. I was using HSSF, it’s spreadsheet library (Horrible Spreadsheet Format according to Google), and attempting to add Comments to cells. At first I thought it wasn’t working at all. Then […]

Weird Sammy + jQuery on IE error

Here’s a post that might help problems with Sammy routes, callbacks, and event handlers using jQuery, especially the “live” function. I have an input form with submit buttons like: This didn’t play well with Sammy, as it doesn’t load the value of what into it’s params hash. So, I did a work around like: I’m […]

Quicksilver Clipboard History Appearing Act

I’ve been using Quicksilver for its clipboard manager–among other things. If you’re a developer, having a clipboard history that is easy to access adds incredibly productivity. I was having an issue where the clipboard manager would suddenly appear out of nowhere, randomly. I was able to implement a cludgy fix by docking the clipboard manager […]

Jamie Ly

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