SQL Server Regular Expression CLR UDF
In: SQL Server
Written by: Taylor Gerring
Face it: data cleanup is a fact of life. While SQL Server has a handful of string manipulation functions, nothing even comes close to the power of RegEx. Fortunately, by leveraging the CLR functionality in SQL Server 2005 and SQL Server 2008, we can add a host of new features, including regular expressions.
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Windows 7 RTM download details
In: Windows
Written by: Taylor Gerring
The time has finally arrived! Windows 7, the latest Operating System from Microsoft went RTM not long ago and DVD images were finally posted on MSDN and TechNet. In addition to filenames, SHA1 hashes and sizes are posted.
You can, of course download the images through the normal MSDN channels, but speed is limited to about 30KB/sec due to demand. Fortunately, MSDN Top Downloads also hosts the images through Akamai and I’m getting 1-1.5MB/sec from here.
Here’s a list of everything that’s available:
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VirtualBox 3.0.4 released
In: VirtualBox
Written by: Taylor Gerring
Yesterday, Sun released a slightly updated version of VirtualBox from the 3.0 series. This is a maintenance release and therefore there are no new major features, however a slew of fixes should improve stability in many situations.
The full changelog appears below:
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Preview: VirtualBox 3.0 Beta 1
In: VirtualBox
Written by: Taylor Gerring
Sun has published a preview of VirtualBox 3.0, dubbed Beta 1. As typical, they consider this to be buggy and offer it with no express commitment to stability. Not that such warning would deter any self-respecting geek!
Just as VirtualBox 2.0 added a whole host of amazing new features, so too will VirtualBox spring forward, bringing it closer to feature parity with products like Parallels Desktop and VMWare Fusion. The major whiz-bang feature for VirtualBox 3.0 seems to revolve around improved 3D graphics support. Sun is claiming support for Direct3D 8/9 for Windows guests and OpenGL 2.0 for Window, Linux, and Solaris guests. In addition to these major features, the typical slew of bug fixes and minor enhancements have been added.
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HOWTO: Sync Google Calendar on iPhone OS 3.0
17 Jun 2009Update: I’ve added an additional section, “Multiple CalDAV Calendars” that details the extra steps required to synchronize more than one Google Calendar.
Update 2: I’d like to thank Elena for finding the address to add contact birthdays: https://www.google.com/calendar/dav/%23contacts@group.v.calendar.google.com/user
With iPhone OS 3.0, Apple introduced new functionality for calendar synchronization. No longer is this ability limited to Exchange and MobileMe; with CalDAV and ICS support, you can sync or subscribe to many calendars. This is a boon for those of us that use Exchange for work, as previously we were unable to sync any other personal calendars and instead, had to rely on a desktop program.
The two most prominent supporters of CalDAV for calendar bidirectional synchronization is Yahoo! and Google. Below, I’ll show you how to sync your main Google Calendar with CalDAV and also subscribe to additional calendars via ICS files.
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