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A circle progressbar

For a small application I wanted to write, I wanted to make a progressbar that is a circle instead of a normal horizontal bar. I wanted to press a button, which is just a normal image and then have a circle go around it, showing the progress.

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string extension methods for C#

I admit, I have a big passion for writing useful extension methods in C#. I love how easy they make my job and keep me from writing code over and over again. There are some methods I use regularly and most of them apply to the string

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Placing curved text on an UIImage

For a project I am doing for a client, I needed to layout text around a circle in objective-C. I spend a couple of hours searching the internet for this, but somehow when people succeed in doing this, they don’t post their solution online. So, I made

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Note to self: how to convert hex codes in a NSString

I have been working with Freebase lately and they sometimes encode their strings, so that “special” characters are encoded in HEX. For example, sometimes you receive a string like this: Terminator_2$003A_Judgment_Day. I wanted to convert the weird encoding they use, so I wrote a piece of code

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Using NLog in your web.config

I have been working on my YourRid.es project a bit lately and one of the things I wanted to put in place, was a good logging system. Most of the time I just use a custom build (read: my own shit) logger, but this time I found

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Queueing HTTP requests in objC

For WallPaper I download numerous thumbnails from my webserver at the same time. This is causing slowing speeds (to many threads at once), and too much memory usage (too much image data cached at once). So I looked in queueing the downloads and tried (ofcourse) writing my

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Using jQuery Dialog with ASP.NET

I have been playing around with jQuery a bit lately and I wanted to use the nice dialog boxes on my new project. The problem with the dialog boxes is, that they do not create a postback when one of the buttons is clicked. Also the values

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Multiple web.config files

We all know this problem, when publishing your web applications to different servers, you always need to take extra care of your config files. Because database connections and physical paths stored in the web.config are machine specific. Well there is no real solution for this kind of

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Getting .NET 3.5 apps to run on 2.0 hosting

As I mentioned earlier, I moved my hosting to MyDomain.com, which has a nice Windows based hosting plan. There is only one problem, they are running .NET Framework 2.0 and don’t have the intention to actually upgrade it for you. I wrote the backend of my iPhone

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Application.Lock() & Current session count

I have been looking around the net to find the best way to keep track of the total number of concurrent sessions. There is one piece of code, that is posted on a lot of websites. The code that I find mostly is the following (I editted

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