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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 / alf-eaton, datablog, datastore, elections, fusiontables, google, guardian

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 / bookshops, robin-sloan, san-francisco, shortstory, visualisation

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, backwardscompatibility, benjamin-pollack, microsoft

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