I was reading our newsgroups, and I came across a post where the user wanted to filter out all tags from html text except for <br>, </br>, <p>, and </p>. What is the shortest .net regex to do that?

Up and down. Two words that we generally think of opposites, but in actual use they are quite different. This became apparent yesterday, when I was in the meeting and the organizers said, “Let's wait a few minutes for others to turn up”, and I realized that “turn up” is not the opposite of “turn down”. The...

If you walk into some offices at Microsoft, you'll find these strange 2“ black cubes on some people's desks. These cubes show up when you complete a patent application and it is filed. It's a nice reward to a process that takes a fair bit of work on your time, and there is also a monetary award. Sometime later (and by later, I mean *years*...

One of the questions that comes up often - usually after somebody comes across one of the C# decompilers, such as RemoteSoft's Salamander or Lutz Roeder's Reflector - is “how do I keep somebody from reverse-engineering my assemblies and stealing my code?”. While reverse engineering of code has been around for a long...

Yes, I've been discovered. My real name is “Cure Inner Song“, and I chose “Eric Gunnerson“ as a likely-sounding anagram for my blog (and my email name is an anagram of “Ice Rug“, which is my street name). Eric sometimes likes to refer to himself in the third person. It's just something that an Eric Gunnerson...

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Eric Gunnerson notes that Ron Jeffries has released a book on Extreme Programming using C#

I had the pleasure to meet Ron Jeffries last year when he was on campus, and I've been reading his column in XP magazine. Ron has released his “Adventures in C#” columns in book form. I haven't read it, but Ron has a great way of explaining thing, and I'm sure it's great. Eric

which means I won't be around, though I may blog late next week. OOF is a weird Microsoft TLA that means “out of office”. Yes, we know that it should probably be “OOOf”, but that's not the way it go expressed in our early tools. I guess that means it's really a TLpA (Three-letter-pseudo-acronym). My wife and daughter...

One of the things that the C# team does occaisionally is hold an appweek, where we take a week out of our schedules and devote it solely to using our product to build apps. For the last week or so, there's been a QA appweek that the PMs have been participating in, and we're organized into 8 or so teams. The reason I called it “appweak”...

I was having a discussion with Joe a few days ago, and he asked me what he should do when people make comments that ask questions. My current approach is to look at the question and try to decide whether I should do a new posting on the topic, or whether I should just add a comment, but I realized that I don't know whether most people go back to...

(in case you're wondering, right now I'm cherry-picking a few comments people have asked me to write on. I'll get to them in order soon...) Jonathan Crossland asked .. your thoughts on enforcing patterns at the compiler level. As an example: - excluding the public scope from field declarations, making them private by default and only private. -...

I was reading the manual for my iRiver a few days ago. There are lots of details and acronyms in the digital music world, and it's sometimes hard to figure things out - especially if you aren't very technical. For example, the player will display an icon telling you what format of file you're listening, but not everybody knows what an OGG format...

Last summer, Bruce Eckel and Bill Venners came to Seattle to talk to the C# team, which lead to the Anders interviews that have been featured on Artima. During a break between talking to more important people, I got the chance to talk to Bruce and Bill for 20 or 30 minutes, and this interview is the result. One of the cool things about...

I recently picked up an iRiver iHP-120 MP3 player. I'd been finding it hard to work at our the club without music. I thought about buying a Rio S50 (like my wife's), but my collection is ripped at a pretty high bit rate, so you can't fit that much music on 512MB of memory. So, a hard disk player it was going to be. I spent a lot of time...