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MJ Sminkey

Member since Jun 1, 2014

Recent Blog Comments By MJ Sminkey

  • The RegEx Of Everyday Things

    Posted on Dec 1, 2023 at 10:37 AM

    @Chris G - This comment "it often takes me longer to write a good pattern than to weed through all the false positives I'd get without it. " is WAY too close to home, LOL. I use Regex fairly commonly for situations in my code that demand it, but am lazy about figuring it out for m... read more »

  • Video Presentation: Feature Flags Change Everything About Product Development

    Posted on Jul 28, 2021 at 11:02 PM

    Hi Ben! I too was super excited after your presentation... not only is this exactly what I need for one of my biggest clients (after updates to Firefox blew up the large suite of Selenium tests we'd used for years as our integration testing) but they also LOVE doing things like A-B testing... read more »

  • The 7th Annual Regular Expression Day - June 1st, 2014

    Posted on Jun 1, 2014 at 1:25 PM

    It looks like at least 3 characters needed to get points for RegEx matches? Also, what's with the Arnold avatar? I need to find out how to change that, at least to some one with the right gender!... read more »

  • The 7th Annual Regular Expression Day - June 1st, 2014

    Posted on Jun 1, 2014 at 1:11 PM

    I'm a bit confused by how the scoring works. Like if you enter just 'a' which is certainly a valid word by itself, and matches a lot of squares on the board, you only get 1 point. Is there a minimum word length required to get points for matches?... read more »

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