Regex Fu: Not Followed By

Everyone has their own regular expression implementation; especially text editors. One is good, while the rest range from absurd to almost usable.

Sometimes, despite your best efforts, you’ll find yourself in a strange environment needing to do some funky regex fu.

So for the sake of argument, let’s imagine we have a standard no-frills regex engine:

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Valid and Accessible Collapsible Panels with Mootools

The other day my friend Matt Stow mentioned Mootools as a lightweight alternative to prototype and scriptaculous, so I decided to check it out.

Yet another collapsible panel!

On the whole, I think I’m impressed with Mootools/Moofx. Firstly, check out the download page. It lets you choose and pick exactly what components you want, it will find [...]

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Valid and Accessible Collapsible Panels with Scriptaculous

Believe it or not, creating collapsible panels — and “rich web elements” in general — requires some careful thought and planning. Some things need to be taken into account, such as:

Not all users have mice - some only have keyboards (or equivalent) Some people don’t have JavaScript - whether by choice or necessity Some people don’t have [...]

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Dynamic Robots.txt with ASP.NET 2.0

I needed to do this recently and I couldn’t find any instructions on the web. There were bits and pieces here and there, but nothing all in one place - and you need to know what you are looking for.

So here it is - step by step explanation on how to create a dynamic robots.txt file (or any text file for that matter) with IIS 6.0 and ASP.NET 2.0

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OpenSocial - Google’s Social Networking Platform

Google has recently stepped right into the social networking realm, releasing an open API for social networking called OpenSocial. So what is it? Is anyone using it yet?

I had a bit of a peek - it looks sorta interesting.

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