Yes, and that is another thing they have wrong!

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"If a man speaks in a forest where there is no woman to hear him, is he still wrong?"

Having moved to the USA a couple of years ago I would challenge that the supermarkets get the "best" produce. What the American public are provided with are the largest and most regular shaped products. These are very rarely the "best". I am sick and tired of apples and peaches the size of footballs and almost as spherical but which have no flavor and hideous mealy texture. I actively hunt out locally grown produce at farmers markets and will buy an ugly fruit or vegetable any/every day over the dreadful waste products source by the US food industry.

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"If a man speaks in a forest where there is no woman to hear him, is he still wrong?"

Kevin Your best bet would be the App Hub forums for XNA at http://forums.create.msdn.com/forums/[^] Stack Overflow also provide pretty good XNA support. Be prepared for a lot of frustration getting started......

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"If a man speaks in a forest where there is no woman to hear him, is he still wrong?"

I want this job! http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-17455924[^]

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"If a man speaks in a forest where there is no woman to hear him, is he still wrong?"

So - if I we had a site built with ASP.Net which implemented a Flash or SilverLight control where would it show in these stats? Are Flash or SilverLight even considered to be frameworks in this context? Methinks the numbers should not add up to 100% therefore methinks the numbers are wrong!

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"If a man speaks in a forest where there is no woman to hear him, is he still wrong?"

:-D But not my actual intent...........

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"If a man speaks in a forest where there is no woman to hear him, is he still wrong?"

C# is my hammer! RegEx is one of those tools that was bought a long time ago for a very specific job and now lurks at the back of the toolbox. It only comes out very infrequently so: 1. I have to read the manual each time I use it because I have forgotten the instructions since the last time. 2. I am unwilling to invest the amount of time required to master its use because (refer to 1) I only use it very infrequently. 3. Each time I use it I have a lingering concern that I have left a problem for the next poor soul who has to maintain the solution.

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"If a man speaks in a forest where there is no woman to hear him, is he still wrong?"

Nearly, but doesn't cover the case where the user has not entered the space (i.e. 'LS1 9EL' vs 'LS19EL'). We also have some other occasional but common variations such as 'LS1_9EL' that we can try to parse for. My understanding is also that whilst this expression will validate the general format of the postcode there are specific exceptions that it does not cover. Unfortunately the task is not one of validating data at point of entry but matching data that has not been properly validated in the first place (>5m records), so refering to a web service such as the BING api is ruled out for performance reasons.

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"If a man speaks in a forest where there is no woman to hear him, is he still wrong?"

Re-formatted for your benefit (although I would argue that we could add text entry boxes for web applications as a nomination).

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"If a man speaks in a forest where there is no woman to hear him, is he still wrong?"

Every now and then I need to solve a problem for which regular expressions looks like it is the "perfect" answer. Today that happens to be validating and extracting UK postal codes from addresses. BUT Every time I try to use regular expressions I find that no-one (especially me) has a clue how to use them and that all "posted" solutions can be demonstrated as flawed and therefore dangerous to use. The sheer complexity of the expressions makes them virtually impossible to read and therefore understand. I post the wikipedia solution to demonstrate my case (GIR 0AA)|(((A[BL]|B[ABDHLNRSTX]?|C[ABFHMORTVW]|D[ADEGHLNTY]|E[HNX]?|F[KY]|G[LUY]?|H[ADGPRSUX]|I[GMPV]|JE|K [ATWY]|L[ADELNSU]?|M[EKL]?|N[EGNPRW]?|O[LX]|P[AEHLOR]|R[GHM]|S[AEGKLMNOPRSTY]?|T[ADFNQRSW]|UB|W[ADFNRSV] |YO|ZE)[1-9]?[0-9]|((E|N|NW|SE|SW|W)1|EC[1-4]|WC[12])[A-HJKMNPR-Y]|(SW|W)([2-9]|[1-9][0-9])|EC[1-9] [0-9]) [0-9][ABD-HJLNP-UW-Z]{2}) Can anyone think of a less usable technology?

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"If a man speaks in a forest where there is no woman to hear him, is he still wrong?"

Sorry, couldn't hear you. My ears are blocked!

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"If a man speaks in a forest where there is no woman to hear him, is he still wrong?"

Pardon?

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"If a man speaks in a forest where there is no woman to hear him, is he still wrong?"

Suddenly everyone in the office looks far more "tasty" than usual.........

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"If a man speaks in a forest where there is no woman to hear him, is he still wrong?"

I know that now! (I made the mistake of assuming that delete meant - well delete......)

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"If a man speaks in a forest where there is no woman to hear him, is he still wrong?"

Hit enter before finishing the message :( - sorry

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"If a man speaks in a forest where there is no woman to hear him, is he still wrong?"

Is it just me or is Jimmy Wales of Wikipedia actually Keyser Söze http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Usual_Suspects[^]

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"If a man speaks in a forest where there is no woman to hear him, is he still wrong?"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Usual_Suspects[^]

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"If a man speaks in a forest where there is no woman to hear him, is he still wrong?"

Ah FF it is! Doesn't rank the sites I like higher though.

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"If a man speaks in a forest where there is no woman to hear him, is he still wrong?"

Fixed...

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"If a man speaks in a forest where there is no woman to hear him, is he still wrong?"

Weird, I just don't have that option in my results.....

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"If a man speaks in a forest where there is no woman to hear him, is he still wrong?"