I've done a lot of server-side regular expressions (including with .NET), but when it comes to Javascript regular expressions, they don't seem to follow the same rules. I've narrowed down a current issue to be that the Javascript Regular expression evaluator doesn't interpret '\d' to mean a digit, so I made a quick fix by simply inserting in '[0123456789]' instead, which fixed the issue. Am I doing something incredibly dumb, or is the standard for regular expressions in Javascript actually different?

Unless you're inexperienced and want to get some good experience out of the deal, don't even bother trying to be the lowest bidder. There are businesspeople out there who truly do always choose the lowest bidder, but they eventually succumb to the painful results it causes and change their strategy.

I'm going to agree that Infragistics components have been going downhill since 2004 or so while their competitors' products have been improving, but I think the icon venture is actually a pretty smart idea. A lot of companies purchase icon art, and I'm sure Infragistics has the industry contacts to make the venture profitable.

+1, I started programming at 9 as well (using Microsoft GW-BASIC).

It's easy for experienced developers to quit and get a better job in America right now. I think that little detail is responsible for their disinterest in unions more than anything else. I haven't been on the job market since getting a new job almost 2 months ago, but I still get calls from recruiters wanting to fill positions all around the nation because my resume was on the internet within the past few months. And when I politely decline, they always give me their contact information to see if I have any friends with similar qualifications who might be interested (and then proceed to ask me to keep in touch in case I'm ever on the job market again because they have a ton of positions they are still trying to fill).

I made use of copy-paste by loading the .vcproj file in a text editor to solve my issues, and I think I'm good to go now. Feel free to let me know if a command or utility for this kind of issue exists, anyway.

Usually, the best option is the highest-paying one. If you accept the job and hate the work environment, you can always change to a better environment as a wiser person. If you're 21, you might as well see what all sorts of different work environments are like, anyway, so you don't have to just depend on other people's opinions (although getting other people's opinions is valuable). Another thing to consider is what kind of work you'll be doing (mostly development with newer technologies vs. maintenance of older technologies). Your career options tend to be better in the long run if you mostly do new development with newer technologies.

Is there an easy way (using Visual Studio 2005) to port all of the settings in the project properties from "Debug" mode to "Release" mode without having to type in every single change one line at a time? (Yes, I know the settings should have been typed in under "All Configurations" instead of "Debug" to begin with, but they weren't.)

Counter-argument: 1. You opted to see the ads on TV, magazines, and newspapers by watching the TV program or reading the magazines or newspapers. You did not opt into receiving an email from a company you never heard of before. 2. If you voluntarily send a website your email address, you opted into receiving an email from them. Spammers pick up emails from people who never contacted them first. 3. You gave your friend the email address voluntarily, and your friend isn't trying to sell you anything. You didn't give your email address to spammers intentionally, and they are trying to sell you something.

If list 1 and list 2 are both size of an order 'n': 1. Create a sorted List 2 (n*log n) 2. Binary search the sorted list 2 for each element in list 1 and append the findings to list 3 (n*log n) 3. Create a sorted List 1 (n*log n) 4. Binary search the sorted list 1 for each element in list 2 and append the missing ones to list 3 (n*log n) 5. Output list 3 O(n*log n) time with O(n) extra memory allocated

Is it possible to hide some columns of a GridView when it's in bound mode (and AutoGenerateColumns is true)?

The word "total" is the subject that must agree with the verb. Some words (such as "majority") can be singular or plural, depending on context. Ex: The majority of the people are here. The majority of the pie is eaten. I don't think the word total is ever plural. You would always say, "The total is [blank]" and never "The total are [blank]"

I used your products a couple jobs ago, and I've seen your ads on various websites. Here's my 10 cents: I think the best advertisement is one very nice-looking picture (related to the product, but not necessarily a screenshot) and then a short list of features that people really want. Your previous ads were very dull-looking and never stood out. Get a talented artist to make a high-quality picture for the ads; high quality art gives the feeling that you're a high quality company.

Excel spreadsheets are prettier. Eventually, they'll upgrade their Oracle database to Excel.

I was writing some Javascript to clear a file uploader, and the following code will clear it on IE 7, Safari 3.1.2, and Opera 9.51:

document.forms[0].ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder1_fuTestFile1.outerHTML = document.forms[0].ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder1_fuTestFile1.outerHTML;

On Firefox 3.0.1, that code does not work. However, the following code works on Firefox only and none of the other browsers:

document.forms[0].ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder1_fuTestFile1.value = '';

Do any of you find Firefox to be the odd one out very often?

Computers that are used by low-paid employees (such as retail clerks and call center people) rarely get upgraded. Then again, not many of us ever have to write applications for such systems (because the people responsible for not upgrading the computers and operating systems are also responsible for not upgrading the sales applications, too). In the early 2000's I had a call center job over Christmas that still used a sales application made by IBM around 1980 or so. Ridiculous hours were spent teaching people to use the system and making up for the errors that people caused (due to the system not being intuitive). I also got a new phone at Fry's Electronics last weekend, and I had to wait 30 minutes or so for the sales guy to stumble through the DOS-looking user interface and eventually call his manager in to help (who also had trouble with the thing).

In a past job, I created a lot of reusable WinForms custom controls, and now I'm starting to create some reusable Web Controls (in VS 2005). Is there an easier way than what's described in Microsoft's tutorial [^], and can we put more than one web control into a DLL?