To find out if a string contains a piece of substring, here are three simple ways of going about it in C#, just to name a few: String.Contains String.IndexOf where the return value is >= 0 Regex.IsMatch Out of curiosity I wanted to see if there was any noticeable difference in the performance of each [...]

Just a quick tech tip: if you have Skydrive (or GDrive or Dropbox or . . . .) you can get Git on any machine you have to use without having to install it on the machine.  Here’s how: Get the Portable Git package Create a directory on your cloud drive for Git (I use [...]

Deactivating accounts and trying out life off-the-grid.

On Saturday last I learned that my dad’s cousin, Donald Anthony Cornacchio had passed away.  It’s never easy to put in words how we feel about someone we’re close to and Tony (I always called him Tony—no one called him “Donald” that I know of and I think he hated to be called “Donald”) was [...]

There was a question posted to Stackoverflow about an implementation of the solution of “Einstein’s Riddle” in F#.  Here’s the text of the question, which I include in case the text of the question is later altered: I’m looking for Einstein’s Riddle solution using F# and I’ve found only Einstein meets F#. Is F# suitable [...]