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coding horror, the baby boy/girl question, probability

Hi, Just showed one of my flatmates this question from coding horror He's just pointed out something obvious, what is the difference between boy/girl, girl/boy. And if there is a difference then surely there is a difference between girl younger girl older combinations etc. Could be missing something but none of the comments seem to dea...

Subsonic 2.x MySQL CodingHorror

Hi! What’s wrong here? This is how I found on examples of Subsonic 2 CodingHorror and doesn't works :( new CodingHorror().Execute("SELECT * FROM product WHERE IdProduct = @IdProduct", 1); The error I get is “Parameter '@IdProduct' must be defined” I’m using Subsonic 2.x and MySQL! Thank you for your help! :) ...

Anybody have CSSerializerSection from Jeff Atwood's codinghorror site?

I would like to learn from and possibly use the section serializer that Jeff Attwood posted in his The Last Configuration Section Handler.. Revisited blog posting. But, alas, it appears to have been lost in the great coding horror backup failure. Does anybody have a copy, or similar code that I can learn from or use? ...

IIS 6 compression configuration as told by Jeff

Hi guys, I've been reading up on the merits of IIS 6 compression over at CodingHorror (here), but I don't get where I'm supposed to make those alterations. Web.config or somewhere else? Thanks! ...

How far should I go with "the opposite of Fitts' Law"?

After reading Jeff's blog post and being fairly new to GUI programming, I'm wondering what the limits are on applying the "opposite of Fitt's Law." For example, is it a good idea to separate "Yes" and "No" on a dialog screen, or would that conflict with another programming rule? E.g. and ...