Adnan Masood's Weblog! عدنان مسعود

Here's a joke which I am telling friends around nowadays and so far only two people laughed on it.

A policeman pulls Werner Heisenberg over on the autobahn for speeding.
Policeman: "Sir, do you know how fast you were going?"
Heisenberg: "No, but I know exactly where I am

Also, I found an excellent collection of Riddles and Logic Puzzles on UC berkeley's website, with a very nice slogan.

[hardcore tech-interview style riddles, not gaussian elimination logic puzzle fluff. updated regularly. millions served! ]

Here I also disovered that YABB forums software is cool!

This evening, I found a good resource for RegEx during my entry validation quest.  I was specifically looking for Improved US Phone Number (by Jesse Sweetland).

^1?\s*-?\s*(\d{3}|\(\s*\d{3}\s*\))\s*-?\s*\d{3}\s*-?\s*\d{4}$ recognizes 1-123-456-7890, 1 (123) 456 7980, 1 123 456 7890, (123) 456-7890, 123-456-7890, and so on, and makes sure that if one paren is present both must be present.

Some other good links for Regular Expressions in .NET

• Regex Designer .NET - Another tool for building and testing regular expressions.
• How To Match a Pattern by Using Regular Expressions and Visual C# .NET
• How To Match a Pattern Using Regular Expressions and Visual Basic .NET

• .NET Framework: Building Applications with Globalization In Mind
• Internationalize Your ASP.NET Applications
• Resources in ASP.NET Applications
• Working with Resource Files
• ASP.NET Localization
• Globalization Architecture for ASP.NET
• Christian Nagel: Building International Applications with the .NET Framework
• Francois Liger: Creating a Custom Culture with the .NET Framework
• MSDN: System.Globalization.CultureInfo Class
• Enterprise Localization Toolkit