Search for this at Google:

Invest $1000000 for Movie

And compare the result from Yahoo:

Invest $1000000 for Movie

Surprisingly, my blog is no.2 at Yahoo’s result, but nowhere in Google’s result. I did even try to search within result in Google by adding word ‘Sodeve’, but nada, zilch, nil .. nothing. 😀

I know.. I know.. I should be grateful to Yahoo for putting me in the 2nd spot .. but for the sake of fairness to the poor soul who is trying to get an investor to invest $1 Million in his/her movie project, please use Google next time 😀

As for Yahoo, this means that there are a lot of rooms for improvements in its searching algorithms 😀 (in case the result changed, I put the screenshot HERE)

I notice from my traffic log that there was someone bumping to this blog searching for ‘C# Regex Word Count’. Since I never create such tutorial, so here you go.

The basic rule of a word would be it doesn’t contain any whitespaces (spaces, tabs, or newlines). So the easiest Regex would be:

[^\ ^\t^\n]+

Now to implement it using C#, It would be as follows:

      public int WordCount(String input)
      {
         int result = 0;
         try
         {
            Regex rgx = new Regex(@"[^\\ ^\\t^\\n]+");
            MatchCollection mcMatches = rgx.Matches(input);
            result = mcMatches.Count;            
         }
         catch (Exception ex)
         {
         }
         return result;
      }

An improvement would be putting the Regex creation out of the function, this way we will not re-created the Regex everytime the function is called.

I recently took a trip from my office to Singapore’s Ministry of Manpower using Bus no. 2. As you see on the picture, there is a small lcd screen that indicates the number of seats available on the top-deck. It’s quite neat to save yourself from wasting time looking for available seats by peeking at the top-deck.

From the design of the lower-deck which provides wide spaces, I think this bus is specially designed to cater those on the wheelchair. Which was later confirmed when I saw the wheelchair sign in entrance door. This type of bus is mostly available in routes that serving City area (Chinatown, Orchard, Raffles City). I haven’t seen one in my ulu place (a.k.a. Jurong West):D

Note: ulu is a singlish adjective, very likely taken from Malay language, to describe a place that is so far away from ‘human civilization’ 😀 Well actually, any place in Singapore which is far from Orchard/City area usually labelled as Ulu. 😀