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Bevan

Wellington, Wellington New Zealand

http://www.nichesoftware.co.nz

Professional software developer in Wellington, New Zealand.
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1274 votes

How do I use reflection to call a generic method?

c# .net generics reflection asked Oct 24, 2008 at 5:17
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135 votes

Why might right aligned field labels be better?

forms guidelines gui-design design-principles asked Jul 10, 2011 at 21:29
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84 votes

How do I change the DNS settings for WSL2?

windows-10 ubuntu dns windows-subsystem-for-linux asked Mar 17, 2020 at 6:56
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50 votes

Why does my WiX installer need an empty CreateFolder to conditionally update an Xml file?

wix windows-installer msiexec wix-extension asked Sep 3, 2012 at 1:28
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50 votes

Better way for users to select a date range

interaction-design input dates asked Sep 30, 2010 at 8:41
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46 votes

Identify a story about genetically engineered Vampires

story-identification vampire genetic-engineering asked Jul 19, 2011 at 7:59
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42 votes

How old were each of the Doctor's incarnations?

doctor-who continuity asked Jun 3, 2011 at 2:30
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39 votes

What's different about Screensaver preview in Windows 8?

wpf windows-8 screensaver asked Oct 8, 2012 at 19:22
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39 votes

What good reasons are there to capitalise SQL keywords?

sql history coding-standards asked Aug 15, 2011 at 21:48
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26 votes

Novel about genetically engineered children who don't need to sleep

novel story-identification asked Jan 12, 2011 at 6:12
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Does List<T> guarantee insertion order?
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Children of XElement
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Are there humorous, less-confrontational ways to negotiate a starting salary?
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Why do C# collection initializers work this way?
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What are common UI misconceptions and annoyances?
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What made object oriented programming successful?
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C# How to find if an event is hooked up
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Splitting a person's name into forename and surname
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What type of addressing does Tony Stark use in Iron Man 3?
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What is the best UI for multi-selecting from a list?
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The breakpoint will not currently be hit. No symbols have been loaded for this document in a Silverlight application
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What are the tell-tale signs of bad object oriented design?
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What is the best way to inspire users to choose strong password?
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Fluent Interfaces - Method Chaining
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Method Overloading. Can you overuse it?
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Is the average number of bugs per loc the same for different programming languages?
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How to trigger a timer tick programmatically?
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How do I change the DNS settings for WSL2?
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Are there any plans for a new Babylon 5 series or movies?
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Copy always to output directory does not work
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What is a fair productivity measurement technique for programmers?
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How does one build a .csproj from command line having a log written to a specified location?
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Who comes up with all those Star Trek facts?
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Winforms TableLayoutPanel adding rows programmatically
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Are multiple asserts bad in a unit test? Even if chaining?
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How To Identify Email Belongs to Existing Thread or Conversation
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Getting non-programmers to understand the development process
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Is LINQ to SQL Dead or Alive?
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