Electrons_Ahoy

Sacramento, CA

http://www.gabrielhelman.com

Lifelong computer enthusiast turned Software developer. Recently emerged from the command-line C world into web systems under .NET. I'm greatly enjoying the fact I haven't had a single pointer-related error in over a year.

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How can I check if a string is a valid number?

javascript validation numeric asked Oct 6, 2008 at 19:12

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979 votes

Can HTML checkboxes be set to readonly?

html checkbox asked Sep 30, 2008 at 21:58

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164 votes

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43 votes

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43 votes

Can I pickle a python dictionary into a sqlite3 text field?

python sqlite pickle asked Oct 13, 2008 at 19:11

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