Jon Tackabury

Canada

Age: 32

I'm a software developer living in Canada. I work with .NET on a daily basis, but dabble in anything else I can get my hands on.

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Is there any difference between a GUID and a UUID?

guid uuid asked Oct 29 '08 at 14:09

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75 votes

FileSystemWatcher vs polling to watch for file changes

c# file filesystemwatcher polling asked Oct 27 '08 at 14:05

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70 votes

What is the difference between decodeURIComponent and decodeURI?

javascript asked Apr 14 '09 at 13:48

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61 votes

Finding duplicate values in MySQL

mysql asked Mar 27 '09 at 4:22

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55 votes

Ignoring accented letters in string comparison

c# string localization asked Dec 11 '08 at 15:57

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43 votes

In C# would it be better to use Queue.Synchronized or lock() for thread safety?

c# multithreading queue asked Dec 3 '08 at 21:13

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33 votes

Can I open a dropdownlist using jQuery

jquery html drop-down-menu asked Dec 11 '08 at 18:46

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22 votes

Win32 window Owner vs window Parent?

winapi window parent owner asked Feb 3 '09 at 16:30

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20 votes

Outlook 2013 with Google ActiveSync

microsoft-outlook activesync asked Jul 16 '12 at 20:43

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19 votes

HttpRuntime.Cache[] vs Application[]

c# asp.net caching httpruntime.cache asked Nov 28 '08 at 21:04

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