Patrick Talmadge
Posts by: Patrick Talmadge
Today’s Regex is used to parse a string for Flickr links and extract the Photo_ID. Once we have the Photo_ID we’re able to create a standard embed code from nearly any Flickr URL.
Supported Links:
The following Regex supports these Flickr links and embed code snippets.
Normal URL : http://www.flickr.com/photos/gambort/6501997531/ Short URL : http://flic.kr/p/aUyrkH Embed [...]
Today’s Regex is used to parse a string for Vimeo links and extract the Video_ID. Once we have the Video_ID we’re able to create a standard embed code from Vimeo links.
Supported Links:
The following Regex supports these Vimeo links and embed code snippets.
Normal URL: http://vimeo.com/9669721 Group URL: http://vimeo.com/groups/tvc/videos/32626014 New Embed: <iframe src=”http://player.vimeo.com/video/9669721?title=0 &byline=0&portrait=0&color=ffffff” [...]
Over the next several days I’m going to post a series of Regex strings. These Regex strings can be used to parse input for different links. I’m using PHP in my examples (you may need to tweak the Regex to work in another language).
Today’s Regex is used to parse a string for YouTube links [...]
I’m working on a project that uses DataTables a JQuery plug-in that turns ordinary table into dynamic tables. One of the columns includes a list of birthdays. We didn’t want the standard date sorting. We wanted the birthdays to sort primarily by month. Below you will see the custom sort algorithm I came up [...]
I stumbled across this Silverlight “feature” today. Silverlight’s binding works in a linear order.
1 <ComboBox SelectedValue="{Binding SelectedHour, Mode=TwoWay}" ItemsSource="{Binding Hours}" />
In the above code, selected value isn’t being set on page load. When I change the ComboBox my SelectedHour ViewModel property was being updated with a new value. This let me know that [...]
I’m working on a PHP project that requires human readable, relative date formatting. Below is the PHP function I’m using. The function handles past and future dates.
Sample Future Output :
30 seconds to go 1 minute to go 5 hours to go Tomorrow at 2:25pm June 30, 2022 5:34pm
Sample Past Output : [...]
The other day I had an interesting problem at work. My new project had a web service call that was pulling metadata off an MS SQL cube. When I started to the the project the call had 6 nested loops that it processing twice. A poster child for inefficiency. Unfortunately looping seems the be the [...]
“If words of command are not clear and distinct, if orders are not thoroughly understood, the general is to blame. But if his orders ARE clear, and the soldiers nevertheless disobey then it is the fault of their officers”
Sun Tzu
I had a request to hide the multiple file upload links in SharePoint 2010. After an hour or two of searching for a configuration setting, I got tired and did a simple CSS hack. Granted this doesn’t disable the functionality it only hides links. So users could still work around this if they know the [...]
I’ve found the best way access initParams throughout your Silverlight Application is to put them in a global static dictionary. This is how I setup my initParms dictionary.
First we need to set an initParams in our ASPX Page:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 <div id="silverlightControlHost"> <object [...]
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