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Friday, 12th June 2009

Dealing with election results data. Alf Eaton loaded the Guardian’s European election results spreadsheet in to Google’s new Fusion Tables tool.

# 6:06 pm / guardian, datablog, datastore, elections, alf-eaton, google, fusiontables

Mr. Penumbra’s Twenty-Four-Hour Book Store. Enormously entertaining short story about data visualisation and creepy San Francisco bookshops by Robin Sloan.

# 6:07 pm / robin-sloan, bookshops, san-francisco, visualisation, shortstory

And that is why, in 2009, when developing in Microsoft .NET 3.5 for ASP.NET MVC 1.0 on a Windows 7 system, you cannot include /com\d(\..*)?, /lpt\d(\..*)?, /con(\..*)?, /aux(\..*)?, /prn(\..*)?, or /nul(\..*)? in any of your routes.

Benjamin Pollack

# 11:48 pm / aspdotnet, benjamin-pollack, microsoft, backwardscompatibility

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