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splattne

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Name splattne
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Website http://twitter.com/splattne
Location South Tyrol, Italy
Age 39
My first computer (1983) was a Commodore VIC-20:

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I love my wife, my two kids & my job as developer. I'm a PC, but I own a mac too.
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Stupid, but commercially successful software

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Is SEO knowledge important for web developers?

feb 22 at 12:44 splattne 14.2k●3●23●60

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CSS tips which every beginning developer should know about?

mar 18 at 9:40 splattne 14.2k●3●23●60

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What problems could be solved using Genetic Programming?

mar 11 at 17:43 splattne 14.2k●3●23●60

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Best practice for creating subversion repositories?

feb 22 at 13:04 splattne 14.2k●3●23●60

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How do ASCII art image conversion algorithms work?

mar 15 at 15:43 splattne 14.2k●3●23●60

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Style Guide for Questions and Answers on Stackoverflow?

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What is your favorite Firebug tip or trick?

mar 9 at 17:24 splattne 14.2k●3●23●60

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Professional jQuery based Combobox control?

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Guidelines for email newsletter service

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Real world implementations of “classical algorithms”

mar 16 at 12:42 splattne 14.2k●3●23●60

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How to design a good about box?

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ASP.NET: Warning on changed data closing windows

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Password protected .NET ClickOnce deployment?

oct 18 at 14:26 splattne 14.2k●3●23●60

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SQL Server tempdb optimization tips for a new server?

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Regular expression for extracting tag attributes

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IMAP folder path encoding (IMAP UTF-7) for .NET?

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IMAP folder/messages synchronization strategy?

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ASP.NET hostingEnvironment / shadowCopyBinAssemblies

nov 11 at 17:37 splattne 14.2k●3●23●60

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ASP.NET ascx vs. aspx - Do you reuse user controls?

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ASP.NET Ajax: close window after Ajax call?

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Increase the font size in Firebug?

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ASP.NET: Where/how is web.config cached?

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